Kluwer Competition Law Blog Celebrates its Nominees for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2026: Vote!

During 2025, we made sure to publish many remarkable, insightful, and well-written contributions by our authors at Kluwer Competition Law Blog. We want to thank every single author who published with us during the year, and especially those who have merited the attention of the jury for the Antitrust Writing Awards 2026. Congratulations to all authors on the great achievement (and kudos for the great work)! 

In the spirit of promoting some selfless self-preferencing, we encourage you to vote for them so that they can be rewarded with the Reader's award: 

• Manuel Abarca (Estudio Lewin Abogados), 'The Chilean Case Against WhatsApp' in the Americas category, vote here.
• Sam MacMahon Baldwin (Szecskay Attorneys at Law), 'Is it State Aid NOT to Sue Cartelists for Damages? Public Inaction in the Age of Private Enforcement' in the Private Enforcement category, vote here.
• Isabel Rooms, Chris Macbeth, and Daniela Weerasinghe (Cleary Gottlieb), 'How Are Competition Laws Heating Up in the Middle East? An Insider's Guide to the Recent Surge in Legislation and Enforcement' in the Africa and Middle East category, vote here.
• John M. Taladay and Christine Ryu-Naya (Baker Botts LLP), 'Presume at Your Peril: Do New Antitrust Proposals Introduce New Risks?' in the Procedure category, vote here.

Given that we thrive in competition at the blog, we would like to note that there are no exclusionary effects in voting for one post or another. There is the possibility to vote for them all at the same time. 

With foreclosure foregone for our authors' pieces, we also encourage a bit of leveraging for our own Editors' research, since they have been nominated in the Academic Articles tenet of the awards in a range of different categories:

• 'Collective Redress under the DMA: A Bird Without Wings', authored by Lena Hornkohl and Alba Ribera Martínez, voting available here in the Private Enforcement category.
• 'Discriminatory Leveraging Plus: The Standard for Independent Self-Preferencing Abuses after Google Shopping', authored by Eva Fischer, Lena Hornkohl and Nils Imgarten, voting available here in the Unilateral Conduct category.
• 'The Metrics of the DMA's Success', authored by Alba Ribera Martínez and Giuseppe Colangelo, voting available here in the Digital category.

And now, let the best (and most voted) pieces win!