Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA)

In this episode, Anush Ganesh sits down with Tim Cowen, Chair of the Antitrust Practice at Preiskel and Co, for a wide ranging conversation shaped by his decades of experience across telecoms and technology regulation. We deep dive into Tim's time leading BT's competition and public policy team through the liberalisation of the EU telecoms market and use that grounding to explore how those...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng speak with Dr Gunn Jiravuttipong, who recently completed his JSD at UC Berkeley School of Law and is a Law and Development Researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). Gunn's research traces how DMA-style platform regulation has spread across the EU, UK, Japan, Australia, India, Brazil and South Korea, and proposes a five-stage...

In this episode , Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng are joined by Dr. Justin Lindeboom, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Groningen, whose work sits at the crossroads of legal theory, EU constitutional law, and competition law. Educated at Groningen, UCL, and Harvard Law School (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), Justin is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of European Papers and an Associate Member o...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Jasper van den Boom speak with Dr Anna Tzanaki, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds and Affiliate Fellow of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Anna's research sits at the intersection of merger control, digital markets regulation, and institutional design across the EU, US, and UK. We discuss three of her re...

In this episode, recorded in person at the SCiDA Conference 2026, Anush Ganesh sits down with Professor Michal Gal, Professor of Law at the University of Haifa and one of the world's foremost competition law scholars, as well as ASCOLA President between 2016 and 2023, to discuss her decades of research on competition law, algorithms, and digital markets. They explore how the "winner takes...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng are joined by Dr Julian Nowag, Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Lund University, Managing Editor of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, and Associate at the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy. Julian is one of the most versatile scholars working in competition law today, with major contributions spanning sustainability,...

In this episode, recorded on 27 May 2026 at the SCiDA Conference in Düsseldorf, Anush Ganesh and Sarah Hinck co-chair a plenary panel exploring the UK's Strategic Market Status regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and Germany's Section 19a GWB. Magali Eben (University of Glasgow; Vice-President, ASCOLA) and Konstantina Bania (Brunel University; Geradin Partners)...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng are joined by Dr Liana Japaridze (Lecturer in Competition Law, University of Glasgow) and Dr Ece Ban (DPhil, University of Oxford) to explore how competition law travels across borders and adapts to the challenges of digital markets. Liana discusses her pioneering work on legal transplants of competition frameworks from the EU and the US into the Wester...

In this episode, Anush and Kena are joined by Dr Xingyu Yan, Assistant Professor at Xiamen University School of Law and recipient of the ASCOLA Best Paper Award in 2021 for his work "Towards a More Competitive Mobile Payment Industry: Standardization and Beyond." Xingyu's research bridges European and Chinese competition law, offering a genuinely comparative perspective on how differ...

In this episode, Anush and Jasper sit down with Dr Andrew McLean, Lecturer in Law and Political Economy at Edinburgh Law School and director of the Edinburgh Competition Law and Economics Network. He was also awarded the Best Junior paper at ASCOLA 2020 for his paper titled, "A Financial Capitalism Perspective on Start-up Acquisitions." Andrew's forthcoming book "Antitrust and t...

Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng speak with Dr Zihao Li (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiahong Chen (University of Sheffield) about their recent paper (with Weiwei Yi) challenging the dominant regulatory approach to AI hallucination. Rather than treating hallucination as a simple failure of factual accuracy, Zihao and Jiahong develop a layered taxonomy that includes sycophancy, consensus illusion, over...

Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng speak with Jan Blockx, Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp and member of the Belgian Competition Authority's decision-making body, about the Digital Markets Act and its enforcement record. Drawing on Jan's research in JECLAP and his recent working paper on meta-regulation, the conversation explores whether the DMA has delivered on its promise to add...

Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng speak with Binit Agrawal, a lawyer and entrepreneur building an AI-first legal practice for emerging cities in India. Binit previously headed strategy at Lucio, a legal AI company, and is empanelled with the UNDP as an expert on AI and law. The conversation covers Binit's trajectory from competition law practice at Axiom 5 Law Chambers to legal technology entrepreneursh...

Anush Ganesh and Jasper van den Boom speak with Simon de Ridder and Maximilian Wolters, doctoral researchers from Humboldt University Berlin, about some of the most pressing questions in German and EU competition law. The conversation covers Simon's proposal for a fine-free enforcement track in EU proceedings, Maximilian's comparative research on market investigation tools in the UK and Germany, a...

How should the law respond when digital news aggregators hold overwhelming bargaining power over the press publishers whose content they rely on? In this episode, we speak with Dr Małgorzata (Gosia) Kozak from the Institute of Law Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, who brings over fifteen years of competition law practice together with deep academic expertise in EU law and digital markets...

In this episode, Kena Zheng and Jasper van den Boom welcome SCiDA colleague Anush Ganesh as a guest on the podcast. Just over a year since the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act came into force, the UK's new digital markets regime is rapidly taking shape, and Anush has been following its implementation closely, attending CMA roundtables, analysing stakeholder consultation responses, an...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh is joined by two doctoral researchers from the European University Institute: Selcukhan Unekbas and Pankhudi Khandelwal, both working under the supervision of Professor Nicolas Petit. Selcukhan's research examines how competitiveness, innovation, and capabilities should reshape European merger law. He discusses his empirical work on killer acquisitions, which foun...

In this episode, Anush and Kena speak with Dr Konstantina Bania, Partner at Geradin Partners and Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London, about the evolving landscape of EU digital platform regulation. Konstantina brings a unique perspective as both a leading practitioner advising clients across the digital economy and an academic whose work on the Digital Markets Act has shaped understanding...

In this episode, Anush and Kena welcome Dr Zlatina Georgieva from Utrecht University to discuss her recent research on EU competition law. We explore her work with Malgorzata Kozak on why escaping liability under Article 102 remains as elusive as finding a unicorn, how the Intel case changed the evidentiary landscape for dominant undertakings, and why the European Commission's proposed break-u...

In this episode, Anush and Kena are joined by Friso Bostoen, Assistant Professor of Competition Law and Digital Regulation at Tilburg University, to explore the competition policy challenges posed by AI agents. The conversation examines whether the EU's Digital Markets Act is equipped to handle autonomous AI systems that can book flights, make purchases, and interact with businesses on our beh...

In this episode, Anush and Kena sit down with Dr Behrang Kianzad, founder of FIDMA and senior researcher at Malmö University, to explore why fairness is re-emerging as a central concept in antitrust after decades of efficiency-dominated thinking. Behrang takes us through his 'Neo-Kantian' approach to competition law, the behavioural economics evidence showing humans are hardwired for fairn...

In this episode, Anush and Jasper are joined by Dr. Alissa Cooper, Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute, to discuss KGI's recent submissions to competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic regarding Google's search monopoly. The conversation begins with the CMA's provisional designation of Google under the UK's new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer...

Anush and Kena are joined by Dr. Deni Mantzari, Associate Professor in Competition Law and Policy at UCL and co-Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society, for a compelling conversation about fair pricing in digital platform ecosystems. We explore her groundbreaking research on FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) pricing for app store access under the EU's Digital Marke...

In this episode, Anush and Kena sit down with Dr. Viktorija Morozovaite, Postdoctoral Researcher in EU Competition Law and Digital Regulation at Utrecht University, to explore three cutting-edge themes at the intersection of competition law, technology, and democracy. Viktorija unpacks the concept of hypernudging : the sophisticated behavioural manipulation tactics employed by digital platforms th...

Join Anush and Kena as they welcome Dr Magali Eben from the University of Glasgow School of Law for a discussion on digital platform regulation. The conversation begins with press publisher rights in the digital age, examining whether digital markets legislation can effectively address the challenges facing publishers or if more comprehensive interventions are needed beyond competition policy fram...