Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Dr. Björn Christian Becker, Visiting Professor

Interdisciplinary Forum on Competition

The Interdisciplinary Forum on Competition (IFW) provides a platform for the cross-disciplinary exchange of early-career scholars in competition law and competition economics. The conferences organized as part of the forum take place every two years in fall (November) and focus on a current overarching theme which is discussed jointly by postdoctoral speakers on different career levels (post-docs, junior professors, assistant professors, etc.) from both legal and economic perspectives.

The Interdisciplinary Forum on Competition originated with the interdisciplinary postdoc conference “Competition in Digital Markets” (2023), organized by Dr. Björn Christian Becker at Julius Maximilians University Würzburg, and has since been jointly organized by legal scholars Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tabea Bauermeister and Dr. Björn Christian Becker as well as the economist Dr. Annika Stöhr.

 

Upcoming dates 

 

November 2027: TU Ilmenau, Topic: tba

 

Past dates 

 

07 - 08 November 2025, Universität Regensburg 

Topic: Sports between Markets, Market Power and New Media 

Keynote: Prof. em. Dr Udo Steiner, Former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

The conference programme and an overview of the speakers can be found here as a PDF and also displayed below as an image (both in German):

 

 

29 - 30 September 2023, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Topic: Competition in digital markets 

Keynote: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Juliane Kokott
Conference Proceedings:  Becker (ed.), „Wettbewerb auf digitalen Märkten“ (Competition in digital markets), Nomos: Series „Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftspolitik (Commercial law and economic policy), February 2025 (available in Open Access and print).

The conference programme and an overview of the speakers can be found here as a PDF.

 

Academic direction und organisation

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tabea Bauermeister

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Dr. Björn Christian Becker

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Dr. Annika Stöhr

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