果冻影院 Laws PhD student Andrew McLean wins Best Junior Paper Award at the ASCOLA Annual Conference

29 June 2020

果冻影院 Laws PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow Andrew McLean has been awarded a prize for the best paper by an author under 35 years old at the major competition law conference.

Andrew McLean, PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at 果冻影院 Laws, has received the Best Junior Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law ().

Andrew鈥檚 paper, 鈥楢 Financial Capitalism Perspective on Killer Acquisitions鈥�, proposes a new legal test that could help control the mass acquisition of tech start-ups by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.

The paper arose out of his doctoral research project, 鈥楥ompetition Law in an Era of Financial Capitalism鈥�, supervised by 果冻影院 Laws' Professor Ioannis Lianos, Professor Marc Moore and Dr Deni Mantzari.

The is the showpiece event of the academic competition law calendar. Originally scheduled to take place at Universidade Cat贸lica in Porto, it was held online due to the coronavirus pandemic, with over 20 panels across three days.