Conference
Per Se Cartel Offences - Legitimacy and Utility of Criminal Sanctions?

23 - 24 March 2012


University of Luxembourg
 


Programme

23 March 2012
9.00 am Welcome of Participants

9.30 am Keynote speech
Professor Caron Beaton-Wells (University of Melbourne)

9.50 am Keynote speech
Professor Jesse W. Markham (University of San Francisco)

10.10 am Coffee Break

10.30 am First Panel: The harmfulness of hard-core cartels: differences between administrative and criminal systems
Chair: Scott Crosby (Advocate, Brussels)
Professor Stefan Braum (University of Luxembourg)
Simone White (European Commission Brussels)
Isabelle Andoulsi (Advocate, Brussels)
Professor Jesse W. Markham (University of San Francisco)

12.30 pm Walking Lunch

1.30 pm Second Panel: Reasons for Criminalising: Is there a purpose in prohibiting hard core cartels
Chair: Professor Stefan Braum (Luxembourg)
Scott Crosby (Brussels)
Carlos Mena Labarthe (Director General, Mexican Competition Authority)
Dr Stephan Andreas (East Anglia)
Professor Christopher Harding (Aberystwyth)

3.00 pm Coffee Break

3.30 pm Third Panel: Regulating markets through criminal law sanctions – Does it work?
Chair: Professor Christopher Harding
Professor Matjaz Jager (University of Llubljana)
Judge John Cooke (High Court, Dublin)
Dr Karl Hofstetter (Schindler Management Ltd)
Professor Elena Kremyanskaya, (Moscow State Institute for International Relations)

5.00 pm Interim Conclusions by Scott Crosby and Stefan Braum

7.00 pm Speaker’s Dinner

24 March 2012

10.00 am Welcome Coffee

10.15 am Fourth Panel: Alternatives to criminalisation
Chair: John Cooke
Prof. Caron Beaton-Wells (Sydney)
Judge Nicholas Forwood (EU General Court, Luxembourg)
Neil Warwick, (Solicitor, Newcastle/London)
Aaron Khan (University of Bristol)

12.00 pm Interim Conclusions by Scott Crosby and Stefan Braum

Closing Conference - Cocktail



Date

23 and 24 March 2012


Location

Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Limpertsberg
Salle Tavenas
102, avenue Pasteur
L-2310 Luxembourg


Registrations

- Free seminar
- Maximum number of attendants: 120
- by email: fdef-colloques@uni.lu (Last name, first name, institution)


Further information

Contact person: Nadja Risch
Phone: +352 46 66 44 6619