Shaping Competition in the Digital Age (SCiDA)

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Ece Ban are joined by Dr Joanna Mazur, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and analyst at the Centre of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies and DELab UW. Joanna shares her empirical research on how the European Commission gathers and relies on expert knowledge in competition cases involving digital markets, drawing on nearly 2...

In this episode of the SCiDA podcast, Anush Ganesh and Ece Ban are joined by three early career scholars researching different aspects of digital competition law, from commitment decisions and the interplay between the DMA and Article 102 TFEU to ecosystem mergers. Pol Adroher Bernal, PhD Candidate in EU Competition Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, discusses his paper on the unchecke...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh sits with Dr Ece Ban from the University of Exeter and Simon de Ridder from Humboldt University of Berlin to discuss the European Commission's newly adopted Guidelines on exclusionary abuses under Article 102 TFEU. Two years in the making, the final text differs noticeably from the draft consulted on in 2024. The conversation opens with first impressions before turnin...

What role does civil society actually play in making the Digital Markets Act work? In this episode Anush and Jasper speak with Dr Maria Luisa Stasi, Head of Law and Policy for Digital Markets at ARTICLE 19, and Jithendra Palepu, Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe, two organisations that have moved well beyond advocacy into producing the evidence, complaints and litigation that...

In this episode, Anush and Kena sit down with Belle Beems, Assistant Professor of EU competition law at the Europa Institute, Leiden University. Belle's award winning PhD asked a deceptively simple question: Can the institutional frameworks and cooperation mechanisms behind competition law, the Digital Markets Act and the GDPR actually work together, or are we left with a patchwork of enforcers pu...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh and Ece Ban sit down with Dr Eun Hye Kim, Assistant Professor at the University of Leeds, whose research brings quantitative and empirical methods to the study of how competition law doctrine actually changes over time. Fresh off winning Best Paper at ASCOLA 2026 for her work applying the Rasch model to measure incremental change in case law, Eun Hye walks us through...

In this episode Anush and Kena sit down with Dr Filippo Lancieri, Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, a Research Fellow at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Fellow at the ETH Zurich Center for Law and Economics. Filippo's work moves between traditional legal analysis and causal empirical research to understand how government...

In this episode, Anush Ganesh is joined by Sara Guidi, Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and a PhD Candidate at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, and Dr Linus Hoffmann, Lecturer in Competition and Internet Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, who completed his PhD from EUI in 2025. Both have been supervised by Professor Nicolas Petit....

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...