Jacques Lassier Prize

The next edition of the Jacques Lassier Prize

Jacques Lassier Prize 2026
Call for Submissions – LIDC Congress, Bucharest

Dear Members,

The International League of Competition Law (LIDC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Jacques Lassier Prize 2026, established in memory of Jacques Lassier, distinguished Lawyer at the Paris Bar and former Chairman of the LIDC. This prestigious award seeks to encourage outstanding scholarly work in the field of competition law and to foster academic excellence and dialogue across jurisdictions.

The Prize will be formally presented during the 2026 LIDC Congress, to be held in Bucharest in October 2026. As we prepare to welcome leading practitioners, academics, and policymakers from around the globe, we invite you to actively support and promote this important academic competition.

Please note that new rules governing the 2026 edition of the Prize are available in the Resources section of the LIDC website: https://ligue.org/document/80e672bc78a3d2dce199092deb5c405a

Jury for the Jacques Lassier Prize 2026

We are honored to introduce the distinguished members of the Jury, chaired by Professor Jules Stuyck:

Submission Procedure

Applications must be submitted electronically to the following addresses: info@ligue.org ; murielle.chagny@uvsq.fr; jules.stuyck@kuleuven.be

Submission period: 1 April 2026 to 15 May 2026

We warmly encourage eligible scholars to seize this opportunity to contribute to the advancement of competition law and gain international recognition for their research.

Thank you for your support in ensuring that this call reaches as many academic institutions and scholars as possible within your respective countries. We look forward to receiving numerous high‑quality submissions.

Past editions of the Jacques Lassier Prize

To honour the memory of one of its former chairmen, Jacques LASSIER, Lawyer at the Bar of Paris, the LIDC has organised a competition to encourage written work on the subject of competition law. This esteemed prize aims to promote scholarly contributions in the field of competition law, fostering intellectual dialogue and innovation.

Following the successful awarding of the Jacques Lassier Prize during our Congress in Paris in 2019, we are excited to continue this tradition at our upcoming Congress in London in 2024. As we anticipate a gathering of legal professionals and scholars from around the world, we invite you to participate in this prestigious competition.

We are pleased to announce that there are new rules for the 2024 competition. These updated rules provide comprehensive guidelines for submissions, ensuring a fair and transparent evaluation process.

Please find attached the Rules for the Jacques Lassier Prize 2024 in English here : https://ligue.org/document/0c87d0e330910d1b1725ade96eef1be7

We encourage you to review these rules carefully and consider submitting your work for consideration.

Furthermore, we are honored to introduce the distinguished members of the jury for the 2024 competition, with Jules Stuyck serving as the President of the Jury:

• Jules Stuyck (President)

Emeritus Professor – University of KU Leuven and RU Nijmegen

Guest Professor at Paris II -Panthéon-Assas

• Florian Bien (Professor)

University Würzburg (Chair in Global Business Law, International Arbitration Law, and Civil Law)

Guest Professor at Paris II Pantheon-Assas

• Muriel Chagny (Professor)

Versailles University (Paris-Saclay)

Director of the Competition and Contract Law Master

• Pinar Akman (Professor & Judge)

Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal

• Pranvera Këllezi (Dr. iur, LLM)

College of Europe

Attorney at law, Commissioner of the Swiss Federal Competition Commission

Lecturer in EU law

Jacques Lassier Laureates since 1982

• 2024 (London)

Niccolo Galli (Italy): Patent Aggregation, Innovation and EU Competition Law

• 2019 (Paris)

Godefroy de Moncuit (France)
Faute lucrative et droit de la concurrence

• 2015

Nikolas Guggenberger (Germany)
Netzneutralität : Leitbilder und Missbrauchsaufsicht

Jan-Christoph Rudowicz (Germany)
Gun-Jumping under the EC Merger Regulation

Special Mention awarded to Benjamin Lehaire (France)
L’action privée en droit des pratiques anticoncurrentielles : pour un recours effectif des entreprises et des consommateurs en droit français et canadien

• 2013

Eckart Bueren (Germany)
Settlements in cartel cases
An examination of the European Commission’s settlement procedure with a comparative study and a law and economics analysis

• 2011

Jérôme Gtalter (France)
Le droit de la concurrence appliqué aux droits de propriété intellectuelle-Réflexions sur les nouveaux monopoles de la société de l’information.

Pablo Ibanez Colomo, (Spain)
European Communications Law and Technological Convergence. Deregulation, Re-regulation and Regulatory Convergence in Televison and Telecommunications.

• 2008

Nicolas Petit (Belgique/France)
Oligopoles, collusion tacite et droit communautaire de la concurrence.

• 2006

Laetitia Driguez (France)
Le droit social et le droit de la concurrence

David Bosco (France)
Le contrat exclusif

• 2002

Raphaël Arn (Suisse)
La publicité choquante – Vers une nouvelle dimension du droit de la concurrence déloyale

• 1998

Friedrich Ruffler (Autriche)
Der Einfluss des Europarchets auf das Österreichische UWG

• 1994

Daniel Fasquelle (France)
Droit américain et droit communautaires de ententes

• 1990

Dominique Graz (Suisse)
Propriété intellectuelle et libre circulation des marchandises

• 1986

Louis Vogel (France)
Concentration économique et système de droit de la concurrence

• 1982

Ludwig Linder (Allemagne)
Privatklage aund Schadensersatz in Kartell