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Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
I. Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Details
Name: Michal S. Gal
Place and Date of Birth: Israel, December 19, 1966
Marital Status: Married, 2 children
Home Telephone Number: 04-8110076
Office Address and Phone: Room 356, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, 04-
8249062
Electronic Address: [email protected]
2. Higher Education
LL.B.- (Magna Cum Laude), June 1993; Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University.
LL.M.- (Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis), August 1996, Faculty of
Law, University of Toronto.
J.S.D.- (Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis), May 2000, Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto.
Several courses taken in economics at the University of Toronto, Columbia
University and NYU, some up to the Ph.D. level, including: Industrial
Organization, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Seminars in Law and Economics.
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3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Rank/Position Name of Institution and
Department
Dates
Law and Economics, Law School,
Columbia University, New York
Visiting Scholar and Olin
Fellow
October 1997-
August 1999
Visiting Fellow NYU Center for Law and
Business, NYU School of
Law and Stern School of
Business
September 1999-
May 2001
Academic Fellow NYU Center for Law and
Business, NYU School of
Law and Stern School of
Business
May 2001-October
2006
Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law, University
of Haifa
January 2002-June
2007
Global Hauser Visiting Professor
(teaching a condensed course)
NYU School of Law, New
York.
January-March
2006
Visiting Scholar Max Planck Institute for
Research on Collective
Goods, Bonn, Germany.
September-October
2006
Associate Professor University of Haifa School
of Law
June 2007-October
2011
Dean's Sabbatical Visiting
Professor
Faculty of Law, Georgetown
University, Washington
D.C.
September 2007-
August 2008
Global Hauser Visiting Professor
(teaching a condensed course)
NYU School of Law, New
York
October-December
2007
Visiting Professor (teaching a
condensed course).
Faculty of Law, University
of Melbourne, Australia
February 2009
March 2015
Visiting Professor (teaching a
condensed course).
Faculty of Law, Catholic
University of Lisbon,
Lisbon, Portugal
April 2009,
June 2016
Visiting Professor at National
University of Singapore, Global
Hauser Visiting Professor at NYU
(teaching at NYU@NUS
program)
National University of
Singapore, NYU@NUS
program
August 2010,
February 2012
(Full) Professor University of Haifa October 2011
Visiting Professor Columbia University October 2016
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Visiting Professor (teaching). Bocconi University, Milano November 2018
Visiting Professor Faculty of Law, University
of Melbourne, Australia
Sept 2020-Jan 2021
4. Offices in University Academic Administration
Membership in Committees and Centers
Member of the Research Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa,
October 2001 - October 2002.
Member of the Teaching Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa,
October 2002- October 2005, October 2006-August 2007, October 2009-
October 2010.
Member of Academic Consultative Body to the program for outstanding
B.A. students, University of Haifa, December 2003-2006.
Member of Consultative Committee to the Dean, Faculty of Law,
University of Haifa, October 2004- present.
Member of Appeal Committee on the decisions of the Dormitory
Committee for years 2005-7, University of Haifa.
Member of Market Positioning Committee, Faculty of Law, University of
Haifa, November 2005- October 2006.
Member of Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Law, University of
Haifa, November 2005- August 2007.
Member of Committee on the Structure of the Course "Origins of Law"
Faculty of law, University of Haifa, December 2006-January 2007.
Head of Research Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, October
2008- October 2009.
Co-Director of the Forum for Law and Markets, Faculty of Law, University
of Haifa, October 2008-present.
Senate Member, University of Haifa, October 2008- October 2013.
Associate Dean, Faculty of law, University of Haifa, September 2009-October
2012.
Member of University of Haifa Advanced Studies Committee, University
of Haifa, October 2009- October 2012, October 2014-present.
Member of Global Law Professors Committee, Faculty of Law, University
of Haifa, October 2009- October 2011.
Head of Advanced Legal Studies Committee, Faculty of Law, University of
Haifa, October 2009- October 2012.
Member of Senate Search Committee for Rector, March-April 2010.
Member of Advanced Studies Committee for Prizes for Best M.A. theses,
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Advanced Studies Authority, University of Haifa, May-June 2010.
Member of Senate Committee for Search of Head of Library, May-
September 2010.
Member of Advanced Studies Committee on Grants, Advanced Studies
Authority, University of Haifa, October 2010-present.
Representative of the University of Haifa Senate to the Inter-Senate
Universities' Committee, May 2012- 2014.
Member of Senate Search Committee for Rector, 2013.
Member of University-wide Academic Promotions Committee, October
2012-2015.
Member of Steering Committee, Center for Law and Technology, 2018-
present
Member of Regulation and Law Committee, Artificial Intelligence Unit,
2017-present.
Director, Center for Law and Technology, 2019- present
Management of Academic Programs
Associate Director of the NYU Advanced Certificate Program in Law and
Business, September 2000 - June 2001.
Director of Law and M.B.A. Program, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa,
October 2001- August 2007.
Director of LL.B Program for Accountants, Faculty of law, University of
Haifa, October 2006-August 2007.
Director of Advanced Studies, Faculty of law, University of Haifa,
September 2009-present.
Other
Co-organizer and Co- supervising teacher of yearly moot court, May 2004.
Chair and member, promotion committees, University of Haifa.
5. Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Membership in Scholarly or Professional Organizations
Member of the Editorial Board of Tel-Aviv University Law Review,
October 1989-July 1990.
Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN-
An organization comprised of all major competition agencies in the world and
select non-governmental advisors), May 2002- 2012.
Member of the International Advisory Board, Antitrust Institute, Chicago,
U.S.A., July 2002- present.
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Member of the Committee for Capacity Building of Antitrust, International
Competition Network, September 2002- June 2004.
Research Fellow at the Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa,
June 2003- present.
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Network on Civil
Society Organizations on Competition, 2003- 2005.
Co-Rapporteur of the 3rd International Conference of the International
Competition Network (ICN) (together with Prof. Simon Evenett, Oxford),
Seoul, June 2004.
Member of Committee on Merger Remedies of the International
Competition Network, June 2004- June 2005.
Member of Academic Committee, Israel Law and Economics Association
Conference, 2005.
Member of Committee on Dominance of the International Competition
Network, August 2006- May 2008.
Member of Advisory Board, American Antitrust Institute, Washington D.C.
(Membership by appointment of executive committee), October 2006-present.
Member of ASCOLA (Academic Society for Competition Law - An
international organization comprised of competition law scholars world-wide),
October 2006-present (membership by appointment of executive committee,
based on publications in the field).
Elected Member of the Executive Committee of ASCOLA, December
2006-present.
Senior Fellow, American Antitrust Institute, Washington D.C., September
2007-February 2008.
Senior Fellow, Antitrust Consumer Institute, Chicago, April 2008.
Member of ICN Working Group on competition law in small economies,
May 2008-June 2009.
Academic Partner, Asian Competition Law and Economics Center (ACLEC),
Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, January 2009-present.
Member of Advisory Board, Middle East Competition Law Initiative,
Interdisciplinary Centre for Competition Law and Policy (ICC), (London), and
College of Management, March 2009-present.
Member of International Advisory Board, Institute for Studies in
Competition Law and Policy (IMEDIPA), London, July 2009-present.
Elected Member of Steering Committee, ASCOLA, May 2010-present.
Elected President, ASCOLA, 2016- present.
Member of United Nations' Committee on Trade and Development's
(UNCTAD) research group on competition law in developing jurisdictions,
July 2011-2015.
Judge, Annual Competition Law Writing Awards (organized by
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Competition Policy Report and George Washington University) 2013.
Editorial Work
Board of Editors, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
2017- present.
Editor of a special part on competition law in small economies, Revue
Concurrence, vol. 3 (September 2008).
Co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford
University Press) 2018.
Consultancy
Consultant on competition law issues to the Economic and Law Associates
March 1995-August 1997.
Consultant to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) on the subject of competition policy in small economies, October-
January 2002.
Consultant to the UN Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on
competition policy for developing economies, January-May 2004.
Consultant to several small economies on the construction of their
competition laws, 2007- present.
Other
Member, Mergers and Exemptions Committee, Israeli Antitrust Authority,
October 2012-October 2015.
Judge, Antitrust Writing Awards, 2012, 2014, 2015 organized by the
Institute of Competition Law and the Competition Law Center at George
Washington University.
Judge, Competition Commission of Singapore and Economic Society of
Singapore (CCS-ESS) Essay Competition 2014.
Academic Review
Reviewer of several antitrust book proposals in the area of antitrust law for
Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University
Press, Edward Elgar and Routledge- Cavendish.
Reviewer of antitrust papers for journals, including Harvard Law Review,
International Review of Law and Economics, Law and Contemporary
Problems, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Law and Contemporary
Problems, Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Hebrew University Law Review,
Bar-Ilan University Law Review.
External Reviewer of Doctorate thesis, Hebrew University, Tel-Aviv
University, King's College, London; European University Institute (EUI),
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Florence; Bar-Ilan University; University College, Dublin.
Reviewer for promotion and prizes, inter alia for Hebrew University, Bar-
Ilan University, University of Florida, Oxford University, London School of
Economics, University College London, King's College London, Bocconi
University.
External Reviewer of M.A. theses for the Technion, Bar-Ilan and Tel Aviv
University.
Reviewer of grant proposals for the ISF (Israeli Science Foundation).
Academic Review Committee (2018), Book in honor of Chief Supreme Court
Justice Miriam Naor, together with Aaron Barak, Daphna Barak-Erez and
Ronen Poliak.
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
Conferences abroad (invited lectures and colloquiums to follow
separately)
Year Location Conference Subject
July 1996 University of
Toronto
New Methods in
Regulating Network
Industries
Current Issues in the Deregulation
of the Ontario Electricity and
Natural Gas Industries (presented
by co-author Prof. Michael J.
Trebilcock)
September 1997 Ottawa, Canada Canadian Bar
Association Annual
Competition Law
Conference
Traditional Natural Monopolies in
Transition: The Comparative Role
of Structural Changes, Competition
Policy and Economic Regulation in
Regulating Network Industries
June 1998 University of
Toronto
Roundtable on
Competition Law
Problems of Market Power in
Electricity Industry Restructurings
May 1998 University of
Malta
The Competition and
Competition Law in
Small Jurisdictions
International
Conference
Defining Market Power in Small
Markets
September 1998 University of
Toronto
Canadian Law and
Economics
Association
Conference (CLEA)
Remodelling Anti-Competitive
Contracts - A Case for Economic
Balancing
May 1999 Yale University American Law and
Economics
Remodelling Anti-Competitive
Contracts - A Case for Economic
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Association
Conference (ALEA)
Balancing
December 2000 Oxford
University, UK
Closed conference
on the Globalization
of Antitrust
Participant and discussant of the
Interests of Small and Developed
Economies in the Globalization of
Antitrust
May 2000 NYU American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
conference
Chair, Session on Procedure and
Evidence
May 2001 Georgetown
University
American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
Reducing Rivals’ Prices:
Government-Supported Mavericks
as New solutions for Oligopoly
Pricing
October 2001 Columbia
University
substantive
Differences in
Competition Laws -
As they Apply to
Exclusionary
Conduct and Effects-
Implications for
Global Competition
and New
Competition
Regimes
Participant in Roundtable
Discussion, closed conference
November 2002 Columbia
University
Competition Policy
and Development:
The Costs and
Benefits of
Multilateral
Principles on
Competition for
Developing
Economies
Participant in Roundtable
Discussion, closed conference
February 2004 University of
Bologna, Italy
Erasmus Law and
Economics Program
Conference
Monopoly pricing as an antitrust
offense in the U.S. and the EC:
Two systems of belief about
monopoly?
September 2006 University of
Madrid, Spain
European Law and
Economics
Association (ELEA)
Six Principles for Limiting
Government-Facilitated Restraints
on Competition (presented by co-
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author Inbal Faibish)
March 2007 University of
Amsterdam
Strategic Firm-
Authority Interaction
in Antitrust, Merger
Control and
Regulation
Six Principles for Limiting
Government-Facilitated Restraints
on Competition (presented by co-
author Inbal Faibish)
Below-Cost Price Alignment:
Meeting or Beating Competition?
September 2007 University of
Toronto
Canadian Law and
Economics
Association
Six Principles for Limiting
Government-Facilitated Restraints
on Competition
October 2007 NYU Competition Law in
Developing
Countries - Does the
US and EC model
really fit? workshop
Competition law and policy in
Emerging Markets
January 2009 Munich Workshop on
competition Law in
Developing
Economies
Roundtable discussion co-organizer
and participant
May 2009 Dan Diego,
California
American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
Free Movement of Judgments
(accepted but not presented, since
travel was not possible at the last
minute).
June 2009 George
Washington
University,
Washington DC
Academic Society
for Competition Law
(ASCOLA) Annual
Conference
A Step Theory of International
Antitrust
October 2009 University of
Toronto
University of
Toronto, Faculty of
Law
Regional Agreements: the Next
step in International Antitrust
December 2009 Collegio Carlo
Alberto, Torino,
Italy
Efficiency and the
Judiciary: Law and
Economics
Perspectives
Free Movement of Judgments
May 2010 Princeton, U.S. American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
The Follower Phenomenon
May 2010 Bonn, Germany Academic Society Commentator on "The role for
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for Competition Law
(ASCOLA) Annual
Conference
morality in defining antitrust
goals."
June 2010 Cyprus IMEDIPA annual
conference
Multi-factored Effects on
Competition law (organizer of
panel and presentor)
August 2010 Munich,
Germany
Regional
Competition Law
Agreements
Regional competition law
agreements: Unleashing the
Potential
August 2010 On-line
conference
orchestrated by
the Antitrust and
Competition
Policy Blog
Global Competition:
Law, Markets and
Globalization
International Competition Law
March 2011 University of
Hong Kong
The Role of
Government in
Markets
Harnessing the Comparative
Advantages of the Competition
Authority
July 2011
King's College,
London
Competition Law in
New Competition
Jurisdictions
Chair of session on Institutional
challenges and choices: Deterrence
October 2011
Chicago Global Competition
National and Transnational
Dynamics: The Interplay
July 2011
King's College,
London
Academic Society
for Competition Law
(ASCOLA) Annual
Conference: New
Competition
Jurisdictions
Chair of session on Deterrence
September 2012 University of
Stockholm
European Law and
Economics
Association
Conference
Synergy vs. Competition (accepted
but eventually not presented due to
a dislocaed disk)
November 2012 Stockholm The Pros and Cons
of Merger Control
Merger control in small and
developing economies
May 2013 Lecce, Italy ASCOLA
Conference:
Antitrust as
Regulation
New Powers – New vulnerability?
A critical analysis of market
inquiries and other interventionary
competition law regulation tools
June 2013 Oxford, UK Antitrust
Enforcement
Symposium
Aggregate Concentration as an
antitrust offense
July 2013 Geneva,
Switzerland
UNCTAD research
platform
*Aggregate Concentration as an
antitrust offense: a Comparative
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Study
*Launching of the book US Cases
and Materials: A Comparative
Perspective by Prof. Eleanor Fox
May 2014 University of
Chicago
American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
Challenging Legal Limitations on
Licenser's Ability to Challenge
Patents (with Alan Miller)
June 2014 Warsaw, Poland ASCOLA
Conference:
Institutional Fairness
No contest Clauses
September 2014 Aix-en-
Provance,
France
European Law and
Economics
Conference
*The Hidden Costs of Free Goods
(with Dan Rubinfeld);
*No Contest Clauses (with Alan
Miller)
May 2015 Columbia
University, NY
American Law and
Economics
Association (ALEA)
The Hidden Costs of Free Goods
(with Dan Rubinfeld, presented by
him)
May 2015 Tokyo, Japan ASCOLA
Conference: Abuse
of Dominance
"Abuse of Superior Bargaining
Power" (with Thomas Cheng);
Free Goods (with Dan Rubinfeld)
June 2015 Oxford, UK Antitrust
Enforcement
Symposium
Antitrust In hi-tech industries-
commentator
October 2016 SciencesPo,
Paris
Growth and
Redistribution: Can
they both be
furthered by
Competition Law?
Inclusive Growth as an essential
goal in some jurisdictions
June 2016 Oxford, UK Antitrust
Enforcement
Symposium
Competition, Data and Technology-
commentator
June 2016 Leiden,
Netherlands
ASCOLA Access to Big Data (with Dan
Rubinfeld)
September 2016 Bologna, Italy ELEA (European
Law and Economics
Association)
Patent Challenge Clauses: A new
Antitrust Offense? (with Alan
Miller)
March 2017 Munich,
Germany
European
Intellectual Property
Institute’s Network
Big Data: Portability and
Interoperability
September 2017 London,
England
ELEA (European
Law and Economics
Association)
Algorithmic Consumers
April 2018 University of
Chicago, US
Personalized Law Governance by Data: Personalized
Law and Data Capitalism (with
Niva Elkin Koren)
September 2018 Berlin, Germany European Policy of Data-Based Governance: The
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Intellectual Property
Association (EPIP)
Conjunction of Enforcement and
Market (presented by co-author
Niva Elkin Koren)
November 2018 NYU, US Data law in a Global
Digital Economy
Data Standardization (with Dan
Rubinfeld)
April 2019 EUI, Florence Media and the
Digital Economy
Data Standardization (presented by
co-author Dan Rubinfeld)
May 2019 Tilburg TILTING conference Data Standardization (with
Dan Rubinfeld);
The Chilling Effects of
Governance-by-Data on
Innovation (with Niva
Elkin-Koren)
June 2019 London University of East
Anglia Annual
Conference
Algorithmic Races
June 2019 Aix-en-
Provence
ASCOLA Annual
Conference
The Antitrust Implications of 3D
printing
September 2019 TAU, Tel Aviv European Law and
Economics
Association (EALE)
Annual Conference
Ensuring Competition and
Innovation ion 3D printing
March 2020 EUI, Florence Innovation,
Platforms and the
Digital Economy
Radical Remedies for Antitrust
Enforcement in the Digital
Economy (presented by co-author
Nicolas Petit)
March 2020 Yale University,
USA
Big Tech and
Antitrust
Radical Remedies for Antitrust
Enforcement in the Digital
Economy (with Nicolas Petit)
Conferences in Israel
Year Location Conference Subject
June 2002 University of
Haifa
Monopolies in
Competition: The
Intersection of
Intellectual Property
and Antitrust
The Troubled nature of Section
3(2) of the Israeli Restrictive
Trade Practices Act (Hebrew)
October 2002 University of
Haifa
Current Issues in
Antitrust
On The Difference between
Collusion and Coordination
(Hebrew)
March 2003 University of
Haifa
The Law and
Economics of Israeli
Competition Policy
1. Abuse of Dominant
Position Under the Israeli
Competition Act
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2. The History of Israeli
Competition Policy (both
in Hebrew)
April 2003 Tel-Aviv,
Conference
organized by the
Antitrust
Authority
Competition Law in
Israel- Where are we
Going?
Size Does Matter for Israeli
Competition Policy (Hebrew)
June 2003 Tel Aviv
University
Israeli Law and
Economics
Association
Conference (ILEA)
The historical and Ideological
Roots of the Israeli Competition
Policy (Hebrew)
January 2004 University of
Haifa
Abuse of Monopoly
Power Conference
Excessive Pricing- Is it Abuse of
Monopoly Power? (Hebrew)
The lecture was referred to
extensively by the Supreme
Court in its decision in the
matter of Howard Reis.
May 2004 University of
Haifa
Monopolies in
Competition
Conference
Three Basic Principles for the IP-
antitrust Interface (Hebrew)
June 2004 University of
Haifa
Israeli Law and
Economics
Association (ILEA)
Conference
Monopoly pricing as an antitrust
offense in the U.S. and the EC:
Two systems of belief about
monopoly? (Hebrew)
December 2004 Bar-Ilan
University
WTO at a Crossroad
International
Conference
International Antitrust: What role
for International Organizations?
December 2004 University of
Haifa
SPAM Conference Chair, panel on What is bad in
SPAM? (Hebrew)
March 2005 University of
Haifa
Antitrust
Developments
Chair, Panel on criminal
enforcement of antitrust offenses
(Hebrew)
December 2005 Bar-Ilan
University
Law and Economics
Conference
The Antitrust Law as a Mirror for
Socio-Economic Ideology
(Hebrew)
June 2006 Interdisciplinary Israeli Law and Regulation by Declaration
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Center, Herzliya Economic Association
(ILEA) Conference
(Hebrew)
January 2007 Rishon Letziyon Reform in
Competition Law
conference
A blueprint for necessary reform
in competition law (Hebrew)
April 2007 Inter-
disciplinary
Center, Herzliya
Mergers and
Acquisitions
The Efficiency Defense in Merger
Review: Does Merger Review
Serve the Public Interest?
(Hebrew)
May 2007 Hebrew
University
International
Conference on the
Approximation of
Laws by Non-EU
Countries with the EU
acquis
Cut and Paste of EU Competition
Law in Israel
June 2007 Kiryat Ono Law
School
Israeli Law and
Economics
Association
Six Principles for Limiting
Government-Facilitated Restraints
on Competition
September 2008 University of
Haifa
European Law and
Economics
Association (ELEA)
International Antitrust
November 2008 Tel Aviv Legal and Economic
Analysis of
Competition Law
1. The Role of Competition Law
in our Market Economy
2. Anti-Competitive Agreements
(both in Hebrew)
May 2009 University of
Haifa
International
conference on Issues
at the Forefront of
Monopolization
The Follower Effect: Implications
for Monopolization (with Jorge
Padilla)
May 2009,
December 2009
Tel-Aviv
University
Regulation in Israel,
Sappir foundation
Abuse of Dominance in Israel: An
Economic and Legal Analysis
(with Hila Nevo)(Hebrew)
December 2009 University of
Haifa
Behavioral Analysis
of Law
Commentator on "A Women's
Worth" by Kimberley D. Krawiec
June 2010 University of
Haifa
Israeli Law and
Economics
Association (ILEA )
conference
The Follower Phenomenon
(Hebrerw)
October 2010 University of
Haifa
"The Legal Year"
annual conference
Developments in Israeli
competition law (Hebrew)
December 2010 Tel Aviv Criminal Enforcement Penalties for Antitrust Violations
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(Hebrew)
May 2011 University of
Haifa
International
conference on
Antitrust in Hi-Tech
Industries
The Dark Side of Open Source
May 2012 Eilat Israeli Bar Association Antitrust Remedies: Is there
sufficient deterrence? (Hebrew)
June 2012 University of
Haifa
International
workshop on the
Economic
Characteristics of
Developing
Economies
The Economic Characteristics of
Developing Jurisdictions (with
Tamar Indig)
December 2012 University of
Haifa
The Changing
Regulatory Paradigm
in Antitrust
Market studies: pros and cons
May 2013 Eilat Israeli Bar Association The limits of Antitrust Criminal
Offenses (Hebrew)
December 2013 Tel Aviv International
Conference on IP
Licensees’ Legal Ability to
Challenge a Patent
December 2013 Tel Aviv The new Guidelines
on Excessive Pricing
The new Guidelines: Robin Hood
or Trojan Horse?
December 2013 Bar Ilan
University
Launch of Orly
Lobel's book: Talent
wants to be Free
Competition aspects in the book
May 2014 University of
Haifa
International
conference on New
Challenges in
Antitrust
Free Goods (with Dan Rubinfeld)
October 2014 College of
Management
Yearly workshop of
the Israeli Academic
Forum on IP
Contesting the law on no contest
clauses (with Alan Miller)
March 2015 Bar Ilan
University
Fairness and Non-
Efficiency in
Antitrust:
International
conference
-Concepts of Fairness and their
implications for Regulation
-Chair of closing session on
Fairness in Antitrust
June 2016 University of
Haifa
Antitrust in
Transformative
Industries
(international
Algorithms as consumers (with
Niva Elkin-Korren)
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workshop)
December 2016 University of
Haifa
Recent Challenges of
Antitrust (English)
Discussant
January 2017 Tel Aviv Antitrust Authority’s
Annual Conference
Aggregate Concentration
April 2017 Tel Aviv International
Conventions on the
Economy of
Innovation
(AIPPI)(English)
IP licensing: Antitrust Concerns
November 2018 Jerusalem and
Haifa (Intl.
conference)
Artificial Intelligence:
Law and Policy
Algorithms as Illegal Agreements;
And Commentator on Palantir
November 2018 European Hub
(Intl.
conference)
AI, Law and Policy Data Standardization
December 2018 University of
Haifa (Intl.
conference)
Intellectual Property,
Innovation, and
Global Inequality
The Chilling Effects of
Governance by Data on
Innovation (presented by
coauthor)
June 2019 Tel Aviv
University (intl.
conference)
New Frontiers of
Antitrust
Algorithmic Interactions
June 2019 Hebrew
University
Pharma, Data and
Competition
Data Standardization
INVITED LECTURES AND COLLOQUIUMS ABROAD
Year Location Conference Subject
June 1996 University of
Melbourne, Australia
Natural
Monopolies
Current Issues in the Deregulation of
the Ontario Electricity and Natural Gas
Industries (presented by co-author
Michael J. Trebilcock)
May 1999 University of
Toronto
Roundtable on
International
Dimensions of
Competition
Policy
Competition Policy In Developing
Countries - a Critique
October 2001 Fordham University,
New York
Fordham
International
Antitrust Law and
The Political Economy of Competition
Policy in Small Economies
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Policy Conference
February 2003 Paris, France Global
Competition
Forum (GCR), of
the Organization
for Economic Co-
operation and
Development
(OECD)
Competition Policy in Small
Economies
June 2003 St. Julian’s, Malta Economic and
Institutional
Issues in
Competition law
Merger Policy for Small Economies
February 2006 University of West
Indies, Barbados
Workshop on
Competition Law
Challenges
The Effects of Regional Agreements
on Competition Policy in Small States
February 2006 Barbados Barbados Fair
Trading
Commission 2nd
Annual Lecture
Keynote Lecture: Size does matter:
Competition Policy in Small States
March 2006 Washington D.C. American Bar
Association
(ABA) Spring
Meeting
Conference
State-Imposed Restrictions on
Competition
June 2006 Guernsey Public lecture
organized by the
Chamber of
Commerce
Does Guernsey need a Competition
Law?
June 2006 Jersey Public Lecture
organized by the
Antitrust
authority and the
Chamber of
Commerce
Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies- the case of Jersey Island
The lecture was preceded by
an interview with BBC Jersey
and local press interviews.
August 2006 Wellington, New
Zealand
Competition Law
and Policy
Institute of New
Zealand yearly
conference
Keynote Lecture: Competition Policy
for Small Market Economies- The
case of New Zealand
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December 2006 Sorbonne, Paris ASCOLA
Conference
Fairness in Antitrust
March 2007 New Delhi, India Seminar on
Competition
Policy, organized
by CUTS Institute
for Regulation
and Competition
Regulation of Restrictive Agreements
Sept. 2007 Kingston, Jamaica Shirley Playfair
Yearly Lecture on
Antitrust,
organized by the
Fair Trading
Commission
Keynote Lecture: Enhancing
Competition Law Enforcement
through Regional Trade Agreements
Lecture was preceded by
interviews in the local TV, radio
and press.
February 2008 Washington DC Charting the
Future Course of
Technical
Assistance
Conference, DOJ-
FTC
Moving Forward: Technical
Assistance for the 21st Century
April 2008 Chicago Consumer
Antitrust Institute
International Antitrust
September 2008 Istanbul, Turkey Institute of
Competition Law
and Policy
Studies
(IMEDIPA,
Athens),
Centre for Law,
Economics and
Public Policy &
Centre for Law
and
Governance in
Europe,
University
College London
and
Bilgi University
Which Competition Law for Regulated
Industries?
April 2009 Lisbon, Portugal Portuguese
Competition
Authority
Competition Law for a small European
Member State
19
June 2009 Washington DC American
Antitrust Institute
(AAI) Annual
Conference
Chair of panel on Private Enforcement
June 2009 Switzerland International
Competition
Network (ICN)
Annual
Conference
Small Economies: Unique
Enforcement Challenges
September 2009 Chicago ABA Conference
on Antitrust
Institutions
When the Going gets Tight:
Institutional Solutions to Scarce
Antitrust Resources
March 2010 University College
London
Competition Law
Forum
Free Movement of Judgments
August 2010 Singapore Competition
Commission of
Singapore
1. Gave a three day workshop on
comparative and international
antitrust;
2. Lecture: Challenges created by
globalization for small economies
March 2011
Hong-Kong
Polytechnic
University
Asian
Competition Law
and Economics
Center (ACLEC)
Public lecture on Hong Kong's new
Competition Law- Addressing the
Challenges
May 2011
Amsterdam Amsterdam
Center for Law
and Economics
(ACLE):
Emerging
Markets
Conference
Keynote Lecture: Transplanting
Competition Laws
August 2011
Bangkok, Thailand Chulalongkorn
University and the
Thai Trade
Commission
Competition law in young jurisdictions
February 2012 Singapore Competition
Commission of
Singapore
Merger Policy in a Concentrated
Market
March 2012 Montecantini, Italy European
University
Institute (EUI):
Political
Governance and
Keynote Lecture: Transplanting
competition laws: Multiple points of
view
20
Regulatory
Enforcement
Activity:
Workshop on
Competition and
Consumer
Protection
Regulation
June 2013 Athens, Greece IMEDIPA Due process and procedural rights in
competition law matters
June 2014 Paris OECD International Estoppel
June 2014 Washington DC American
Antitrust Institute
Plenary session: Efficiency claims in
antitrust
August 2014 Singapore Competition
Commission of
Singapore Annual
Conference
Mergers - How many players can the
Singapore market take?
August 2014 Singapore
AEGC Workshop
on Promoting
Competition
Compliance in
ASEAN
Lecture on “Introducing
competition policy and law in
developing countries”
Moderator in session on “Case
studies on outreach and
advocacy by ASEAN member
states to promote competition
law compliance”
Moderator in session on
“Specific tools to encourage
compliance with competition
law”
Co-moderator in session on
“Summary & Conclusions”
April 2015
Paris, France Law Seminar,
SciencesPo Law
Department
Free Goods: Implications for
Antitrust Enforcement
April 2015 Hong Kong organized by the
Competition
Commission
Public lecture: Applying efficient
Regulatory Tools
April 2015 Hong Kong
Polytechnic
Law School Free Goods: Implications for
Antitrust Enforcement
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University
May 2015 University of
Melbourne, Australia
Competition Law
and Economics
Network
Free Goods: Implications for
Antitrust Enforcement
December 2015 Berlin, Germany GIF 50TH
Anniversary
Presentation of research funded by
GIF, together with Prof. Drexl
March 2016 European University
of Rome and Italian
Competition
Authority, Italy
Smart Cities and
Antitrust
Keynote Lecture: Competition and
Innovation in the digital environment
(with six commentators commenting
on the lecture)
May 2016 Munich, Germany 50 years to the
Max Planck on
Competition and
Intellectual
Property
Competition and Innovation
June 2016 Brussels Conference in
honor of Prof.
Eleanor Fox
Should we Recalibrate Competition
Law to Limit Inequality?
September 2016 University of Leeds,
UK
Antitrust in the
Digital Era
Algorithmic Consumers
October 2016 NYU Antitrust and
Trade seminar
Algorithmic Consumers
November 2016 Rome Italian
Competition
Authority and
Luiss University
Keynote Lecture: Competition Law
in the Digital Economy
December 2016 OECD, Paris OECD Global
Forum
Institutional Independence
November 2016 Amsterdam Association of
Competition
Economics
Conference
Competition Issues in Big Data
(keynote speech given by co-author
Dan Rubinfeld based on joint paper)
March 2017 European University
Institute, Florence,
Italy
Competition,
Regulation and
Freedom of
Expression in
Digital Markets
Keynote Lecture: Algorithmic
Consumers
March 2017 Rome Regulation,
Competition and
Innovation
Keynote Lecture: Algorithmic
Consumers (with five commentators
following)
April 2017 Harvard University Berkman Center
Luncheon Talks
Algorithmic Consumers (with Niva
Elkin-Koren)
May 2017 Oxford University Digital Markets Social effects of digital markets
June 2017 OECD, Paris Competition
Committee
Meeting
Algorithms and Collusion
22
July 2017 Wellington, New
Zealand
Commerce
Commission bi-
Annual
Conference
Keynote lecture: New Challenges to
Small Economies
September 2017 London Competition and
Markets
Authority (CMA),
Distinguished
Speaker Series
Algorithmic-Facilitated
Coordination
November 2017 Roma Tre University Antitrust and IP
in the
Pharmaceutical
Sector
Keynote Lecture: No Contest and
Pay-for-Delay Agreements
November 2017 Riga, Latvia The role of
Competition
Policy on
Economic
Growth: the Past,
Present & Future
Keynote Lecture Learning from the
past, Looking to the Future
November 2017 El Salvador Competition
Authority
Antitrust
Conference
Characteristics of developing
economies and their implications for
competition law (via skype)
September 2017 Aix-en-Provence,
France
University of Aix-
en-Provence
Competition Law challenges in the Era
of Algorithms
January 2018 Brussels Fairness in
Competition Law
Conference
Theoretical and Historic Foundations
of Fair Price
February 2018 Zurich, Switzerland Competition (law)
at the Age of
Algorithms
Algorithms as Facilitating Devices
February 2018 Potsdam, Germany German-Israeli
Foundation
Algorithmic Consumers
May 2018 Zagreb, Croatia University of
Zagreb
Keynote: Competition law in Small
Economies (via skype)
June 2018 Munich, Germany Max Planck
Institute for
Competition and
IP, Oxford
Center, and
University of
Haifa Cyber
Center
Algorithms and Collusion
June 2018 Bogota, Colombia 13th International
Regulatory
Workshop,
Keynote: Algorithmic Consumers
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Colombian
Commission for
Communications
Regulation
June 2018 Madrid, Spain FIDE foundation
public lecture
Algorithmic Consumers
June 2018 Valencia, Spain International
conference on
Competition law,
Digital Platforms
and Big Data
Access Barriers to Big Data
September 2018 London, England
(LSE)
The Shaping of
EU Competition
Law
Institutions and Substance in
Competition Law
December 2018 London, England
(UCL)
Taming the
Fourth Power:
Media,
Competition and
Democracy
Echo Chambers- A potential Clash
between Democracy and Competition
April 2019 OECD, Paris Roundtable of the
Committee on
Consumer Policy
Implications of voice-based e-
commerce for consumer policy (with
Niva Elkin-Koren, via skype)
April 2019 Porto, Portugal New Challenges
for EU
Competition Law
Private Enforcement of Competition
Law
April 2019 Beijing, China Competition,
Governance and
Regulation of the
Internet Economy
Data Standardization (via skype)
October 2019 Como, Italy European
Competition
Policy Forum
The Antitrust Implications pf 3D
printing
October 2019 Zurich, Switzerland Lecture Series on
the Law &
Economics of
Innovation, joint
ETH Zurich,
University of
Zurich and
University of St.
Gallen
The Antitrust Implications of 3D
printing
November 2019 Brussels (organized
by UCL)
The Moving
Boundaries of
Competition Law
Data ecosystems
November 2019 Tilburg Governing Data
as a Resource
The unintended competitive
consequences of the GDPR
24
December 2019 Harvard Law School
workshop at TAU
Law and
Psychology
Algorithms and the law
June 2020 NYU, NY Global Antitrust
Economics
AI in competition law
July 2020 EUI, Florence Competition Law
and the Public
Interest
TBD
July 2020 Berkeley, USA Simons Institute
Algorithms and
the Law
TBD
INVITED LECTURES IN ISRAEL
Year Location Conference Subject
May 1998 College of
Management, Rishon
Letziyon
International
Competition Law
Conference
Problems of Market Power in
Electricity Industry Restructurings
(together with co-author Michael J.
Trebilcock)
November 1999 Tel-Aviv, Israel ABA Antitrust
Section and
Israeli Antitrust
Authority
Conference on
International
Antitrust
The intersection of Intellectual
Property and Competition Policy: A
small Economy’s Perspective
Talk reviewed in Global
Competition Review
(February/March 2000).
May 2004 Eilat Israeli Bar
Association
Yearly
Conference
The Scope and Effects of the Recent
Supreme Court decisions in
Competition Law (Hebrew)
November 2004 Tel Aviv 10th Anniversary
conference of the
Antitrust
Authority
Antitrust vs. Sector-Specific
Regulation (Hebrew)
May 2005 Hebrew University,
Jerusalem
Annual
Conference of the
Israeli Economics
Association (IEA)
Dynamic Efficiency considerations in
Israeli Antitrust (Hebrew)
June 2005 Tel-Aviv, organized
by the Neeman
Institute, Technion
Science,
Technology and
Economy
Conference
Dynamic Efficiency considerations in
Israeli Antitrust (Hebrew)
25
May 2006 Eilat, Israel Israeli Bar
Association's
Annual Meeting
Necessary Changes to the Israeli
Competition Law, panel chair and
discussant (Hebrew)
December 2009 Herzliyya Israel Antitrust
Authority Annual
Conference
Antitrust Sanctions
May 2010 Eilat Israeli Bar
Association's
Annual Meeting
Chair of Antitrust Panel:
Administrative penalties for
competition law offenses
May 2012 Eilat Israeli Bar
Association
Yearly
Conference
The new regulatory tools on the
Competition Law (Hebrew)
March 2013 Jerusalem Center for
Continuing
Education for
Legal Assistants
for Judges
Agreements in Restraint of Trade
May 2013 Eilat Israeli Bar
Association
Yearly
Conference
Should Penalties for Antitrust
Offenses be Criminal? (Hebrew)
February 2014 Neve Ilan Antitrust
Authority
Research Day
Decision Theory and Abuse by way of
Unfair Pricing
March 2014 Tel Aviv Israeli Bar
Association
Section of
Competition Law
The new Market Studies Tool
February 2015 Neve Ilan Center for
Continuing
Education for
Judges
Comparative competition law
Unfair High Prices
March 2015 Jerusalem Antitrust
Authority
Limitations of a small economy in a
globalized world
November 2015 Tel Aviv University Regulatory
Reform during
Gilo's time
The regulation of Excessive Prices
January 2016 Haifa Yearly conference
of the Israeli
Organization on
Regulatory barriers to competition in
Israel
26
Public Law
March 2017 Jerusalem Judges’ seminar
on law in the
digital economy
Algorithmic Consumers
May 2017 Tel Aviv University Information
Sharing
No Contest Clauses in Patent Licenses
June 2017 Haifa Judges annual
conference
Algorithms in the service of
consumers
December 2017 Haifa Human Right in
Cyberspace
(international
conference)
Algorithmic challenges to
Autonomous Choice
January 2018 Ramat Gan The Sharing
Economy
(International
conference)
The power of the Crowd
March 2018 Rishon Lezion The Israeli
Sharing Economy
The Power of the Crowd
October 2018 IDC Annual
conference on IP
Governance by Data (with Niva Elkin-
Koren)
October 2018 Jerusalem, Israeli
Parliament
Internet Giants
and Competition
How should a small economy deal
with internet giants?
November 2018 Hebrew University
and University of
Haifa (international
conference)
AI, Law and
Policy
Algorithms as Illegal Agreements
March 2019 Maale Hahamisha,
Israel
Training for
Judges on Law
and Technology
Algorithmic Races
March 2019 Tel Aviv University Competition Law
and Economics
Conference
3D printing
April 2019 Rishon Lezion
College of Law
Internet.
Competition.
Regulation.
conference
Competition law Issues in the Digital
Economy
February 2020 Tel Aviv University,
School of Public
Policy
The Israeli Data
Regime
Data Regimes around the world
8. Colloquium Talks
Year Location Conference Subject
December 1998 NYU Faculty seminar Remodelling Anti-Competitive
Contracts - A Case for Economic
27
Balancing
January-February
1999
Columbia
University,
University of
Michigan,
University of
Pennsylvania,
University of
Toronto, and
George Mason
University
Faculty workshops Competition Law Under the
Magnifying Glass: The Effects of
Small Size on Competition Policy
August 2003 U.S. Federal
Trade
Commission,
Washington D.C
Seminar series on
competition law
scholarship
Size Does Matter
February 2004 Humboldt
University,
Berlin
Walter Ratheau
Center for Industrial
Organization
What Scope for Global Antitrust?
August 2004 Washington DC U.S. Department of
Justice Antitrust
Economics
Department,
Washington D.C
Monopoly pricing as an antitrust
offense in the U.S. and the EC: Two
systems of belief about monopoly?
February 9, 2005;
March 25, 2004;
January
21, 2003
Neve Ilan,
Jerusalem
seminar on
commercial law for
judges, program for
judges' continued
education
The intersection between Antitrust
and Intellectual Property
February 2007 Office of Fair
Trade, United
Kingdom
Seminar on
Competition
advocacy
Competition Advocacy
Lecture given in a seminar
organized by the OFT which
centered on a discussion of my
article on limiting government-
imposed restraints to
competition.
February 2007 King's College,
London
Seminar for graduate
students
The effects of size and development
on optimal competition law
March 2008 Washington DC Seminar of the
Economic Analysis
Group at the DOJ
Antitrust in Small Economies
28
Antitrust Division
April 2008 Chicago-Kent
University
Faculty seminar International Antitrust
February 2009 Melbourne,
Australia
Monash University Competition law in small market
economies- Some implications for
Australia
April 2009 Hebrew
University,
Israel
Faculty Seminar International Antitrust
January 2010 University of
Haifa, Israel
Forum for Judges Law in an International World: The
example of Competition Law
November 2011 Israeli Supreme
Court
Colloquium of
Supreme Court
Legal Assistants and
Interns
Competition law and the social
revolution
February 2012 National
University of
Singapore
Faculty Research
Seminar
Free Movement of Judgments
March 2012 European
University
Institute (EUI),
Florence
Competition Law
and Regulation
Workshop
Free Movement of Judgments
April 2012 Centre for
Competition
Policy (CCP),
Norwich
University
Competition Law
Seminar Series
Regional Competition Law
Agreements: Unleashing the
Potential
May 2012 Interdisciplinary
Center, Herzliya
Faculty Research
Seminar
Redefining Consumer Demand
April 2014 European
University
Institute (EUI),
Florence
Competition Law
and Regulation
Workshop
No Contest Clauses
April 2014 Bocconi
University,
Milano
Faculty workshop Free Movement of Judgments
November 2014 Tel Aviv
University
Law and Economics
Workshop
No Contest Clauses (presented by co-
author Alan Miller)
February 2015 Harvard
University
Law, Economics and
Business Workshop
Free Goods (presented by co-author
Dan Rubinfeld)
October 2016 Columbia
University
Blue Sky Meeting,
Center for Law and
Economics
Algorithmic Consumers (with Niva
Elkin-Koren)
October 2016 NYU Colloquium on
Information
Technology
Algorithmic Consumers (with Niva
Elkin-Koren)
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February 2018 Boston
University
Seminar on
Consumer Markets
Algorithmic Consumers with Niva
Elkin-Koren)(via skype)
March 2018 Center for Cyber
Law and Policy
Seminar on Law and
Technology
Algorithmic Challenges to
Autonomous Choice
April 2018 NYU Colloquium on
Information
Technology
Governance by Data (with Niva
Elkin-Koren)
January 2019 Bar Ilan
University
Colloquium on Law
and Technology
Governance by Data (presented by
Niva Elkin-Koren)
February 2019 Oxford, England Business Law
Workshop Series
The Antitrust Implications of 3D
printing
May 2020 Tel Aviv
University
Law and Economics
Workshop
The Competitive Effects of the
GDPR (with Oshrit Aviv)
Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Role Subject of Conference/
Role at Conference/
Comments
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Co-Organizer Antitrust and IP University of
Haifa
Competing
Monopolies
June 2002
Organizer Antitrust University of
Haifa
Current Issues in
Antitrust
October 2002
Organizer Abuse of Dominance in
Israeli law. Including
Keynote by Prof. Valentine
Korah (University College
London)
University of
Haifa
Abuse of
Dominance
January 2004
Organizer and
chair of session
Session on antitrust at the
Israeli Bar Association
Yearly Conference
Eilat, Israel Current issues in
Antitrust
May 2004
Co-Organizer Antitrust and IP. Including
Keynote by Prof. Bill
Kovacic (FTC)
University of
Haifa
Competing
Monopolies 2
May 2004
Co-Organizer Antitrust developments.
Including Keynote by Peter
Roth (London).
University of
Haifa
Antitrust
Developments
March 2005
Co-Organizer
and main
lecturer
Three-day condensed
course for judges on
competition law
(organized together with
Supreme Court Justice
Neve Ilan,
Israel
Antitrust May 2005
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Miriam Naor for the
Institute for Judges'
Continued Education),
Organizer and
chair of session
Israeli Bar Association
Yearly Conference
Eilat, Israel Antitrust May 2006
Co-Organizer International workshop NYU Competition
Law in
Developing
Countries
October 2007
Co-Organizer Tel-Aviv,
Israel
Legal and
Economic
Analysis of
Israeli Antitrust
November 2008
Co-Organizer International workshop University of
Haifa
Issues at the
Forefront of
Monopolization
May 2009
Organizer and
chair of session
Eilat, Israel IBA Conference
on Antitrust
remedies
May 2010
Co-Organizer International workshop University of
Haifa
Competition law
in Hi- Tech
Markets
May 2011
Co-Organizer
and chair of
session
International workshop University of
Haifa
The Economic
Characteristics
of Developing
Jurisdictions
June 2012
Organizer University of
Haifa
The Changing
Regulatory
Paradigm in
Antitrust
December 2012
Co-Organizer Tel Aviv The new
Guidelines for
Excessive
Pricing
December 2013
Co-Organizer International workshop University of
Haifa
Competition law
In High Tech
markets
June 2014
Co-Organizer University of
Haifa
New Challenges
for Antitrust
May 2015
Organizer University of
Haifa
New Challenges
for Antitrust
May 2016
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Co-Organizer International workshop University of
Haifa
Antitrust in
Transformative
Industries
June 2016
Co-organizer Stockholm,
Sweden
ASCOLA annual
conference
June 2017
Co-Organizer Israeli-German workshop Potsdam,
Germany
GIF Young
Scientists
Conference
February 2018
Co-organizer NYU, NY ASCOLA annual
conference
June 2018
Co-organizer International conference,
together with the Israeli
Antitrust Authority and Tel
Aviv University
Tel aviv,
Israel
The Challenges
of a Small
Economy
June 2019
Co-organizer Aix en
Provence
ASCOLA annual
conference
June 2019
Co-Organizer Israeli-German workshop Potsdam
Germany
GIF Young
Scientists
Conference
February 2019
9. Research Grants
Year Funded by Topic Co-Researchers Role in
Research
2002-4 ($26,000 per
year)
Israeli Science
Foundation
(ISF)
The Implication of the
Globalization of Antitrust on
Small and Less Developed
Economies- Analysis and
Suggested Ways for
Overcoming the Bargaining
Problem.
PI
2004 ($12,000) Samuel
Neeman
Institute
(Technion)
Interface between Intellectual
Property and Antitrust in the
Israeli Market
Prof. Niva Elkin-
Koren, University
of Haifa
Co-PI
2005 ($12,000) Samuel
Neeman
Institute
(Technion)
Why do Foreign Firms
Register their Patents in
Israel?
Prof. Benjamin
Bental, University
of Haifa
Co-PI
2006 Young
Scientist Grant
German-
Israeli
Fairness in EU and Israeli
Competition Law
PI
32
(26,000 Euro)
Foundation
(GIF)
2007-2010
(approximately
65,000 NIS per
year)
Israeli Science
Foundation
(ISF)
Fairness in Competition Law PI
2009 (33,000 NIS) The Pinchas
Sapir
Economic
Policy Forum
Legal and Economic Analysis
of Abuse of Monopoly Power
in Israeli Law
PI
2010-2013
(approximately
57,000 Euros per
year)
German-
Israeli
Foundation
(GIF)
Competition Law in
Developing Jurisdictions
Prof. Josef Drexl,
Director, Max
Planck Institute for
IP and Competition
Law, Munich
Co-PI
2014-2016
(approximately
94,000 NIS per
year)
Israeli Science
Foundation
(ISF)
Aggregate Concentration: An
Antitrust Offense?
PI
2015-2016 (15,000
NIS)
Minerva
Center for the
Rule of Law
under
Extreme
Conditions
Access to Big Data PI
2017-2018
(20,000 NIS)
Chet Center
for the study
of
Competition
and
Regulation
Sharing Economy: Antitrust
Implications
PI
2017-2018 Center for
Cyber Law
and Policy
Algorithmic Wars in
Cyberspace
PI
2018-2019
(60,000 NIS)
Center for
Cyber Law
and Policy
The Tension Between
Governance by Data and Data
Markets
PI
2018-2019 (60,000
NIS)
Israeli Internet
Association
The Israeli policy Towards
Blockchain
Jonathan Yovel,
Orna Eini, Niva
Elkin-Koren, Orr
Dunkelman
Co-PI
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2018-2019 (60,000
NIS)
Center for
Cyber Law
and Policy
“Developing New Paradigms
for Blockchain Governance
and Jurisprudence”
Jonathan Yovel,
Orna Eini, Niva
Elkin-Koren, Orr
Dunkelman
Co-PI
2019-2020 (40,000
NIS)
Center for
Cyber Law
and Policy
“Legal Data Regimes:
Implications for Innovation and
Privacy?”
PI
10. Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes
LL.B. degree, Magna Cum Laude graduation, June 1993, Faculty of Law, Tel-
Aviv University.
Alan Marks Medal for best thesis submitted in 1995/6, Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto (for LL.M. thesis).
Olin fellowship, Law and Economics Program, University of Toronto (1996-
9).
Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 1997-8.
Olin fellowship, Law and Economics Program, Columbia University (1998-9).
Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis submitted in 1999/2000, Faculty
of Law, University of Toronto. First winner of the medal for two graduate
theses (Masters and Doctorate).
Zeltner prize for young Researcher 2004, granted once a year to one young
researcher in the fields of law or social sciences by the Zeltner foundation.
The committee, which included the Dean of Tel-Aviv Faculty of Law, a
Supreme Court Justice and a member of the Zeltner foundation, noted in
their decision: "The prize is granted to Dr. Gal for her book on competition
law in small economies which was published by Harvard University Press,
for papers published in the field of competition law, and in order to
encourage this gifted and bright researcher in her academic path."
(translation from Hebrew).
Antitrust Awards 2014 Winner, best article on merger policy for 2013, for
"Merger Policy for Small and Micro Jurisdictions". Article on "Market Inquiries"
(together with Tamar Indig), was short-listed for best article on Antitrust General
(8 papers shortlisted).
Antitrust Awards 2016 Winner, best article on unilateral conduct for 2016, for
"Access Barriers to Big Data" (co-authored with Dan Rubinfeld).
Winner of the 2016 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for best
paper in 2016 on Antitrust in Platform Markets, for the paper “The Hidden Costs
of Free Goods: Implications for Antitrust Enforcement,” (co-authored with Dan
Rubinfeld). The award is given by the American Antitrust Institute.
Winner of the 2017 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for best
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paper in 2017, for the paper “Patent Challenge Clauses: A new Antitrust
Offense?” (co-authored with Alan Miller). The award is given by the American
Antitrust Institute.
Recipient of the University of Haifa Board of Directors Award for Best
Senior Researcher, May 2019.
Other
Chosen by Globes as one of ten young promising legal researchers in Israel
(September 2007).
Chosen by the Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog as one of the "Best of the
Best: Top Female Antitrust and Economics Law Professors" (May 2010).
Chosen by the Global Competition Review as one of the leading 100 "Women
in Antitrust" worldwide (May 2009, March 2013).
Excellence in Teaching
Excellence in Teaching Award for academic years 2003-4, 2004-5, 2005-6,
2018-9.
Letter of excellence in teaching from the Dean of the University of Melbourne
School of Law.
11. Teaching
A. Courses Taught in Recent Years
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Some of the papers supervised and submitted in seminars by the students have been
published in law journals. These include, inter alia:
1. Amir Israeli, "Competition without Values or Competition Among Values:
Restrictive Agreement Arguments raised by a Contractual Party" 2 University
of Haifa Law Review (Din Udvarim) 297 (2006)(Hebrew).
2. Arlen Duke, "Extraterritoriality in Australian Competition Law," Federal Law
Review (2009).
B. Supervision of Graduate Students
Name of Student Title of Thesis Degree Date Student's Achievements
Lilach Priel The Judicial Trend LL.M. 2004
Course Year Type Degree Number of
Students
(approximate,
depending on
year)
Corporations 2001-7 class LL.B. 80-160
Competition Law 2001-
present
class LL.B., LL.M 50-70
Advanced Competition
Law
2002-
present
seminar LL.B., LL.M 17-25
Origins of the Law 2002-5 class LL.B 20
Economic Analysis of
Law (part of the
course)
2005-
present
class LL.M. for judges 17-25
Comparative and
International Antitrust
2006 seminar J.D., LL.M (taught at
NYU)
25
Comparative and
International Antitrust
2006-
present
class LL.B., LL.M. (taught at
Haifa, Melbourne,
Lisbon, Singapore)
20-52
Antitrust and
Intellectual Property
2006-
present
class LL.M 20-25
Colloquium on Law
and Economics (taught
jointly with Prof.
Salzberger)
2006-7 seminar LL.B., LL.M 20
Competition law in
emerging markets
2007 class J.D., LL.M (taught at
NYU)
25
Patent Licensing 2009-
present
class M.A. 17-25
36
towards limiting the
cartel offense
Amir Livne Antitrust Law:
Structural and
Constitutional
Problems
LL.M. 2004 "Constitutional and
Structural Problems in
Competition law" 8(1)
Law and Government 257
(2005)(Hebrew)
Dan Castillio An Economic
Assessment of the
Case Ryan Air and
Charleroi airport vs.
the Commission
LL.M. 2004
Haviva German The challenge of
collecting societies,
competition and
technology-
A law and economics
perspective
LL.M. 2005
Amely Hansen Efficiency
considerations under
Art. 81(3) EC, recent
perspectives – really a
more economic
approach?
LL.M. 2005
Alexander
Meshkowsky
The Economics of
D&O Liability for
False Information in
German Secondary
Capital Markets
LL.M. 2005
Sharon Oded Compulsory Licensing
in the EU
LL.M. 2007
Ursula Sieradzka
The Oligopoly
Situation in the
European Mobile
Telephone Market and
the Proposed
Regulation on
Roaming Prices
LL.M. 2007
Noy Brindt Mediating Interests in
the Non-Profit
LL.M.
2009
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Organization (Amuta)
Nir Ofer Fair or Unfair?
Excessive pricing as a
misconduct of
Dominant Firms
LL.M. 2012
Tamar Indig Fairness and Antitrust
Law: From Empirical
Study to Legal Policy
Supplemen
-
tary track
towards
Doctorate
2010
Yaron Raz "Public Good"
Companies
Supplemen
-
tary track
towards
Doctorate
2014
Nicky Hoogvelt Providing access to
essential facilities:
retail minus or cost
plus?
LLM 2014 Received special
distinction for his thesis
Ori Yuval Aggregate
concentration
measures in Israel
LL.M. 2015
Gal Yehoshua The competition
authorities'
compatibility to apply
non-economic
considerations
LL.M. 2015
Yu Ren Endowment Effects in
Cartels
LL.M. 2016
Manuel Zimmerman Is the obligation to
subdivide contracts
into lots a
contradiction to
economic efficiency?
LL.M. 2016
Merav Adler The essential Facility
Doctrine in Big Data
Supplemen
-
tary track
towards
Doctorate
2015
Ilan Steiner Social Responsibility Doctorate Finished Currently Director in the
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of Corporations 2015 Bank of Israel
Yehudit Koren Liability of Directors
in Small Firms
Doctorate Finished
2015
Doctorate published as a
book
Tamar Indig Harmonization of
Competition Laws:
Developing Countries'
Perspective
Doctorate Finished
2018
Two papers published (see
list below)
Noy Brindt Legal Aspects of the
Relationships between
Nonprofit
Organizations and
their Stakeholders:
The Israeli Perspective
Doctorate
Started
2012
Hila Nevo Abuse of Market
Power in Israeli Law
Post-
Doctorate
2008-9 Several papers published
(see list below)
Ofer Green Antitrust as a Tool for
Social Change
Doctorate 2012-2019
Eyal Bar Zvi Transfer Pricing Supplemen
tation
towards
doctorate
2015-2018
Dobile Minkute Digital Interactions of
Algorithms
LL.M. 2018
Julia Taddeo How the Conditions
of a Market for
Lemons Can Arise in
the U.S.
Pharmaceutical
Market and What We
Can Do About It
LL.M. 2018
Noga Blickstein-
Shchory
Consumer Biases in a
Digital World
Doctorate 2018 One article published
Lior Frank Embrionic
Innovations
Doctorate 2018
Tamar Shtub Doctorate 2019
Eliran Fistel LL.M. 2019
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II. List of Publications
Order of contributors reflects relative contribution, unless mentioned otherwise
A. BOOKS
Authored Books
PUBLISHED
1. Michal S. Gal, Competition Policy for Small market Economies
Harvard University Press, 2003, 324 pages.
Book reviews include:
"Don't copy the US, warns Gal" Global Competition Review (June 2003).
Russell Pittman, "Competition Policy for Small Market Economies" 11 (4)
Economics of Transition (2003), 749-50.
Annotation in the 41 (3) Journal of Economic Literature (September 2003).
Spencer Weber Waller, "What if Richard Posner were Australian?" The
Antitrust Source (September 2003), 1-4.
Richard Whish, "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small market
Economies." 27(1) World Competition- Law and Economics Review (2004),
155-6.
Ralph Winter, "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies", 21(4) Canadian Competition Record (2004), 6-8.
Mark Furse, "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies" European Competition Law Review (2004), 179-80.
Iris Soroker, "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies", 44 Hebrew University Law Review (Mishpatim) (2004), 421-
41.
John Temple Lang, "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies" 32(1) International Business Lawyer (2004), 46-7.
Hiroki Nogami, "Book Review," The Developing Economies, XLII-1
(March 2004), 113-18.
Rory McLeod "Book Review: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies" New Zealand Competition Law Journal (2004), 4 pages.
Bruce M. Owen, "Imported Antitrust: Quackery or Cure?- Review of
Competition Policy for Small Market Economies", 21 Yale Journal on
Regulation (2005), 441-59.
Kurt Stockmann, "Buchrezensionen: Competition Policy for Small Market
Economies" 2 Zeitschrift fur Wettbewebsrecht (German Journal of
40
Competition Law) (2006), 254-6.
Edited Books and Journals
1. Michal S. Gal and Menachem Perlman eds., The Law and Economics of the
Israeli Competition Law, Nevo, 2008 , Volume 1, 549 pages (Hebrew).
Reviewed in Iris Soroker, "Following the book Legal and Economic Analysis
of Competition Law", 15(1) The Law (Hamishpat) 357 (2009)(Hebrew).
2. Mor Bakhoum, Josef Drexl, Michal S. Gal, David Gerber, Eleanor Fox eds.,
Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries,
Edward Elgar, 2012, 352 pages.
Reviewed in
Mel Marquis, Concurrences (2) 2013, 221-2 (French).
Andreas Heinemann, 45(3) International Review of Intellectual Property
and Competition Law (IIC) 375 (2014).
3. Michal S. Gal, Mor Bakhoum, Josef Drexl, David Gerber, Eleanor Fox eds.,
The Unique Economic Challenges of Developing Economies and their Implications
for Competition Law, Edward Elgar, 2015.
4. Bjorn Lundquist and Michal Gal, Competition law in the Digital World
(forthcoming, Edgar Elgar, 2019).
5. Co-editor Journal of Competition Law Enforcement Special Issue on
Competition law in the Digital World (2018).
C. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
1. Michal S. Gal, "The Nielsen Case: Was Competition Restored? - On the Anti-
Competitive Effects of A Partial Enforcement of Competition Laws," (1997)
29 Canadian Business Law Journal 17, 40 pages.
2. Michael J. Trebilcock and Michal S. Gal, “Market Power in Electricity
Industry Restructurings,” (1999) 22 World Competition – Law and Economics
Review 119, 50 pages.
3. Michal S. Gal, “Reformation of Anti-Competitive Contracts - A Case for
Economic Balancing” (2000) 22 Cardozo Law Review 91, 31 pages.
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4. Michal S. Gal, “The Intersection of Competition Policy and Intellectual
Property: Small Economy Perspective,” (2000) Global Competition Review
14, 3 pages.
5. Michal S. Gal, “Size Does Matter: General Policy Prescriptions for Optimal
Competition Rules in Small Economies,” (2001) 73 University of Southern
California Law Review 1468, 42 pages.1
6. Michal S. Gal, “Reducing Rivals’ Prices: Government-Supported Mavericks
as New solutions for Oligopoly Pricing,” (2001) 7 Stanford Journal of Law,
Business and Finance 73, 34 pages.
7. Michal S. Gal, “Monopoly Pricing as an Antitrust Offense in the U.S. and the
EC: Two Systems of Belief about Monopoly?” (2004) 49 Antitrust Bulletin
343, 41 pages.2
8. Michal S. Gal, “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Restrictive Agreement
in Light of the Supreme Court’s Recent Decisions” (2004) 1 University of
Haifa Law Review (Din Udvarim) 533 (Hebrew), 26 pages.3
9. Michal S. Gal, “Monopolies in Competition: The Balance between
Innovativeness and Competition in the Israeli Competition Law”, (2006) 2
University of Haifa Law Review (Din Udvarim) 425 (Hebrew), 60 pages.
10. Michal S. Gal, "What is an Agreement?" (2006) 29(3) Tel Aviv University
1 Article (Small Economies) served as trigger, and partial basis for discussion, for the
OECD Global Competition Roundtable on Small Market Economies, February 2003.
It was also cited by courts and governmental committees in several jurisdictions,
including Australia, Malta, Hong-Kong and Guernsey.
2 Article (Monopoly Pricing) was cited, in agreement, in Supreme Court decision
Civil Appeal 2616/03 Isracard and others vs. Howard Reis.
3 Article (Separating the Wheat) was cited, in agreement, in several Supreme Court
decisions. See, for example, Criminal Appeal 4855/02 Borowitz and others v. State
of Israel; Criminal Appeal 7829/03 State of Israel vs. Ariel Handasat Ramzorim;
Criminal Appeal 7068/06 State of Israel vs. Ariel Handasat Ramzorim; Criminal
Appeal 5672/05 Tagar et al. vs. State of Israel; Criminal Appeal 5823/14 Shupersal et al
vs. State of Israel (August 10, 2015).
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Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat) 591 (Hebrew), 50 pages.4
11. Michal S. Gal, "Regulation by Declaration: A Novel Method to Limit Abuse
of market Power" (2006) 2 NYU Journal of Law and Business 404-29.
12. Michal S. Gal, Menachem Perlman and Talya Solomon “Concentrated
Monopolies” (2006) 36 (1) Hebrew University Law Review (Mishpatim) 13
(Hebrew). (In accordance to relevant contribution. Mr. Perlman wrote part of
the chapter on the economic basis for oligopolistic markets. Ms. Solomon
assisted with basic research), 36 pages.
13. Michal S. Gal, "The Effects of Smallness and Remoteness on Competition
Law- The Case of New Zealand" (2006-2007) 14 (3) Competition and
Consumer Law Journal, 292, 26 pages.
14. Michal S. Gal, “50 Colors of Formica: Legal Realism in the Israeli
Competition Law”, (2007) 23 (3) Bar-Ilan University Law Review (Mechkarei
Mishpat), 709 approx. 60 pages (Hebrew).
15. Michal S. Gal, "Necessary Reforms of the Israeli Competition Law",
Hamishpat (The Law) (in a special issue dedicated to competition law reform
questions) September 2007, 23 approx. 15 pages (Hebrew).5
16. Michal S. Gal, "The 'Cut and Paste' of Article 82 of the EU Treaty in Israel:
Conditions for a Successful Transplant" (2007) 9 European Journal of Law
Reform 467, 18 pages.
17. Michal Gal and Amir Israeli "A Bell on the Cat's Neck: Monopoly
Declarations under the Israeli Competition Law" (2007) Law and Business
(Mishpat Vaasakim) (Hebrew).
18. Michal Gal and Inbal Faibish, "Six Principles for Limiting Government-
4 Article (What is an agreement) was cited in agreement and the legal tests proposed
in it were applied by the Israeli Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal 2568/08 Voll vs.
State of Israel. Cited by the Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal 5823/14 Supersal et al vs.
State of Israel (August 10, 2015).Was also applied in several district court decisions,
including Case 526-06-08 (Tel Aviv District Court) Levitt vs. Hewlett Packard et al.
(22.8.11).
5 Article (Necessary Reforms) was cited, in agreement, in Supreme Court Civil
Appeal 2082/09 Director of Competition Authority vs. Yorocom and Bezeq.
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Facilitated Restraints on Competition" (2007) 44 Common Market Law
Review (CMLR) 69-101. (Inbal Faibish was my research assistant).6
19. Michal S. Gal, "Below-Cost Price Alignment: Meeting or Beating
Competition? The France Telecom Case" 28(6) European Competition Law
Review (ECLR) (2007), 14 pages.
20. Michal S. Gal, "When the Going Gets Tight: Institutional solutions when
Antitrust Enforcement Solutions are Scarce" 41(3) Loyola University Chicago
Law Journal 417-41 (2009).
21. Michal S. Gal and Amir Israeli, "On the Limits of Criminal Sanctions in
Antitrust" 6(4) Taagidim 76-95 (2009)(Hebrew).
22. Michal S. Gal, "Antitrust in a Globalized Economy: The Unique Challenges of
Small and of Developed Economies, 33 Fordham International Law Journal
1-56 (2009).
23. Michal S. Gal, "Regional Agreements: An Important Step in International
Antitrust" 60 University of Toronto Law Journal 239-61 (2010).
24. Michal S. Gal, Avishalom Tor and Spencer Weber Waller, "Expansion and
Contraction in Monopolization Law" 76 Antitrust Law Journal 653-661
(2010).
25. Michal S. Gal, "Free Movement of Judgments: Increasing Deterrence of
International Cartels Through Jurisdictional Reliance," 51(1) Virginia Journal
of International Law 57-94 (2010).
26. Michal S. Gal and Jorge Padilla, "The Follower Effect: Implications for the
Design of Monopolization Rules in a Global Economy" 76(3) Antitrust Law
Journal 899-928 (2010).
27. Michal S. Gal, "The Bagel and its Hole: Changes in Competition Law" 6
University of Haifa Law Review (Din Udvarim) 173-199 (2011)(Hebrew).
28. Michal Gal and Amir Israeli, "The Dearth of Antitrust Sanctions" (2012) 35
6 Article (six principles) served as basis for a seminar on the subject of competition
advocacy at the UK Office of Fair Trade. Also, was chosen as one of 2007 best
antitrust articles in the Law Professor's antitrust Blog.
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Tel Aviv University Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat) 5-50 (Hebrew).7
29. Michal S. Gal, "Review Essay: New Perspectives on International Antitrust,"
(2012) 106 American Journal of International Law 1-10.
30. Michal S. Gal, "Viral Open Source: Competition vs. Synergy" (2012) 8(3)
Journal of Competition Law and Economics 469.
31. Michal Gal and Spencer Weber Waller, "Antitrust in High-Tech Industries"
(2012) 8(3) Journal of Competition Law and Economics 449.
32. Michal Gal and Hila Nevo, "The Effects of Decision Theory on Legal Rules:
Abuse of Dominance by Setting Unfair Prices" (2015) 45(1) Hebrew
University L. Rev. 277 (Hebrew).8
33. Alan D. Miller and Michal Gal, "Challenging the Law on Licensees' Ability to
Launch Patent Challenges" (2015) 32(1) Yale J. on Reg. 101 (ranked 50/1538
in 2015).
34. Michal S. Gal and Dan Rubinfeld, "Free Goods: Their Implications for
Antitrust Analysis" 80 Antitrust L. J. 401-42 (2016).9
35. Michal S. Gal and Thomas Cheng, "Aggregate Concentration Concerns:
Competition Law Solutions?" Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (2016).
36. Michal Gal and Hila Nevo, "Regulating Unfair High Prices: Trojan Horse"
45(3) Hebrew University L. Rev. 801 (2016)(Hebrew).
37. Michal S. Gal and Alan Miller, “Patent Challenge Clauses: A new Antitrust
Offense”? 92 Iowa L. Rev. (2016)(forthcoming)(ranked 9/1548 in 2016).
38. Michal S. Gal, “Is Bounded Rationality in Entry Decisions Necessarily Bad for
Social Welfare?” Antitrust Bulletin 541 (2016).
39. Dan Rubinfeld and Michal S. Gal, “Access Barriers to Big Data” 59(2)
7 Cited by the Supreme Court is Bagatz 4501/14 Perski vs, Director of the aNtitrust
AUthority (23.7.2015). 8 Cited in case (Economic Affairs District Court) 42754-05-11 Cohen vs. Cellcom et al.,
(9/12/2019) 9 Short-listed for the Antitrust Writings Award, 2015 (66 chosen out of hundreds).
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Arizona L. Rev. (2017)(forthcoming)(ranked 40/1538 journals in 2016).10
40. Michal S. Gal and Niva Elkin-Koren, “Algorithmic Consumers” 30(2) Harvard
Journal of Law and Technology 309 (2017)(ranked 44/1538 in 2016; ranked
1/71 of journals in intellectual property).11
41. Michal S. Gal, “Algorithms as Coordination-Facilitators: Potential Legal and
Market Solutions,” Competition Policy International (CPI) Antitrust
Chronicle, May 2017.
42. Michal S. Gal, “Algorithmic Challenges to Autonomous Choice,” 25(1)
Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 59 (2018)(ranked
123/1548 in 2017; ranked 6/71 of journals in intellectual property).
43. Michal S. Gal, “The Sharing Economy: The Power of the Crowd,” 13(1) Law
and Ethics of Human Rights (2018)(ranked 4/43 of journals on human rights in
2017; 8/595 of non-US journals on all subjects in 2017).
44. Michal S. Gal, “Algorithms as Facilitating Practices”, 34 (1) Berkeley
Technology Law Journal (2018)(ranked 2/71 of journals in intellectual
property; 48/1548 overall in 2017).
45. Niva Elkin-Koren and Michal S. Gal, “The Chilling Effects of Governance by
Data” (2018) 86 University of Chicago L. Rev., (ranked 25/1548 of all legal
journals in 2017). 12
46. Michal S. Gal and Daniel Rubinfeld, “Data Standardization: Interoperability
and Portability in an Interconnected World” NYU L. Rev. (forthcoming,
2019)(ranked 13/1548 in 2018).13
47. Michal S. Gal, “Algorithms as Illegal Agreements?” Communications of the
ACM (January 2019)
48. Michal S. Gal, “3D Competition: Ensuring Competition and Innovation in 3D
Printing”, 22(1) Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law
(2019) (ranked 5/79 of intellectual property in 2018; 131/1548 overall)
10Winner of the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for best paper in 2016 on
Antitrust in Platform Markets. Winner Antitrust Writings Award, 2016, Unilateral Conduct
Category 11 Translated to Chinese. 12 Short-listed for best paper award in the TILTING conference (2019), 5 papers out of a
few hundreds. 13 Short-listed for best paper award in the TILTING conference (2019), 5 papers out of a
few hundreds; short listed for Antitrust Writings Award, 2019, General Antitrust Category.
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49. Michal S. Gal and Rivka Dahan. “Legal Obstacles to Private Enforcement of
Competition Law” 3(2) Market and Competition Law Review (2019)(new
journal, still not ranked).
50. Michal S. Gal, “The Case for Limiting Private Litigation of Excessive Pricing”
forthcoming, Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2020).14
51. Tamar Shtub and Michal S. Gal, “Blockchain and Competition Law”,
University of Haifa Law Rev. (Din Udvarim), forthcoming, 2020).
52. Michal S. Gal and Oshrit Aviv, “The Competitive Effects of the GDPR”
forthcoming, Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2020).
D. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. Michal S. Gal and Michael J. Trebilcock, "Traditional Natural Monopolies in
Transition: The Comparative Roles of Structural Changes, Competition Policy
and Economic Regulation in Preventing the Leveraging of Monopoly Power in
Network Industries", in Competition Law for the 21st Century (Musgrove, ed.,
Juris Publishing, 1998), 197-234 (Article was based, in part, on my LL.M.
thesis).
[Sub-chapter 11.II of the book The law and Economics of Canadian
Competition Policy, by Michael J. Trebilcock et al. (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2002), which deals with “Competition Policy and Regulation in
Network Industries,” pp. 704-743, was closely derived from the article cited
above.]
2. Michal S. Gal, “The Ecology of Antitrust: Preconditions for antitrust
Enforcement in Developing Countries” in Competition, Competitiveness and
Development: Lessons from Developing Countries (Brusick, Alvarez, Cernat
and Holmes ed., UN, 2004), 22-54.
3. Michael J. Trebilcock and Michal S. Gal, "Current Issues in the Deregulation of
the Ontario Electricity and Natural Gas Industries," in Deregulation of Public
Utilities: Current Issues and Perspectives (Richardson ed., Melbourne: Centre
for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, 1996),
14-68.
14
Short listed for Antitrust Writings Award, 2019, Unilateral Conduct Category.
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4. Michal S. Gal, “Reality Bites (or Bits): The Political Economy of Competition
Policy in Small Economies” in International Antitrust Law and Policy (Barry
Hawk, ed., Juris. Publishing, 2002), 605-17.
5. Michal S. Gal and Amir Israeli, “Israeli Competition Law” in Competition
Regimes in the World (Mehta ed., CUTS, 2005), 65-71 (updated in 2012).
6. Michal S. Gal, "Restrictive Agreements and Unilateral Restraints" In Economic
Theory and Competition Law (Josef Drexl ed., Edgar Elgar, 2007).
7. Michal S. Gal, "The Role of the Competition Law in the Commercial Law
Tapestry" in The Law and Economics of the Israeli Competition Law (Gal and
Perlman eds., Nevo, 2007) (Hebrew), 33 pages.15
8. Michal S. Gal and Menachem Perlman, "Legal and Economic Analysis of
Competition Law" in The Law and Economics of the Israeli Competition Law
(Gal and Perlman eds., Nevo, 2007) (Hebrew), 17-30.16
9. Michal S. Gal, "Competition Law in Micro-Economies: The Case of Barbados"
in Competition Policy Perspectives (P.Satyanarayana Prasad ed., ICFAI Law
Books, 2007), 16 pages.
10. Michal S. Gal, Amir Israeli, and Menachem Perlman, "Hard Core Cartels" in
The Law and Economics of the Israeli Competition Law (Gal and Perlman eds.,
Nevo, 2008)(Hebrew), 193-302.17
11. Niv Zecler, Michal S. Gal and Yariv Ilan, "Private Enforcement in Israel" in
The International Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law (Bert
Foer and Jonathan Cuneo eds., Edward Elgar, 2010), 514-33.
12. Michal S. Gal, "Extraterritorial Application of Antitrust - The case of a Small
Economy (Israel)" in Cooperation, Comity, and Competition Policy (Andrew
15 Cited by the Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal 5823/14 Shupersal et al vs. State of
Israel (August 10, 2015). 16 Cited by the Supreme Court in Criminal Appeal 5823/14 Shupersal et al vs. State of
Israel (August 10, 2015); and in case 42754-05-11 (Economic Affairs District Court)
Cohen vs. Cellcom et al., (9/12/2019) 17 Chapter cited in agreement in several court decisions, including Criminal Case 1274/00
Israel vs. Mudgal; Criminal Case 1142/01 State of Israel vs. Sholstein, and by the Supreme
Court in 2568/08 Voll vs. State of Israel and in Civil Appeal 6343/11 Hollandia et al vs.
Director of Competition Authority et at (24.12.13); Criminal Appeal 5823/14 Shupersal et
al vs. State of Israel (August 10, 2015).
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Guzman ed., Oxford University Press, 2010) 97-120.18
13. Michal S. Gal, "International Antitrust solutions: Discrete Steps or Causally
Linked?" in International Antitrust (Josef Drexl et al., ed., Edgar Elgar, 2011).
14. Michal S. Gal and Eran Fish, "Antitrust Pluralism and Justice" in The Goals of
Competition Law (Josef Drexl and Daniel Zimmer eds., Edgar Elgar, 2012).
15. Michal S. Gal and Inbal Wassmer-Faibish, "Regional Competition Law
Agreements: Has the Potential been Realized?" in Regional Competition Law
Agreements (Bakhum, Drexl, Gal, Gerber, Fox eds., Edgar Elgar, 2012).
16. Michal S. Gal, "Shaping Policies and Building Institutions: Deterrence" in New
Competition Jurisdictions: Shaping Policies and Building Institutions"
(Christopher Townley and Richard Whish eds, Edgar Elgar, 2012).
17. Michal S. Gal, "Merger Policy for Small and for Micro Economies" in The
Prons and Cons of Merger Law (Sweden, 2013).19
18. Michal S. Gal, "Abuse of Dominance: Exploitative Practices" in EU
Competition Law (Lianos and Geradin eds., Edward Elgar, 2013), 385-422.
19. Tamar Indig and Michal S. Gal, "New Powers – New vulnerability? A critical
analysis of market inquiries," in Competition Law as Regulation 89 (DiPorto and
Drexl eds, Edward Elgar, 2015).20
20. Michal Gal and Eleanor Fox, "Drafting Competition Laws for Developing
Economies: Learning from Experience" in The Unique Characteristics of
Developing Jurisdictions and Their Effects on Competition Law (Gal et al eds.,
Edward Elgar, 2015).
21. Tamar Indig and Michal S. Gal, "Lifting the Veil: Rethinking the classification
of Developing Economies for Competition Law and Policy" in The Unique
Characteristics of Developing Jurisdictions and Their Effects on Competition Law
(Gal et al eds., Edward Elgar, 2015).
18 Cited in Case 513/04 (Jerusalem District Court) AKUM vs .Director of the Antitrust
Authority (June 2, 2011); Case 57451-03-16 (Lod District Court) Hatzlacha vs Optronics
(29 December 2016). 19 Antitrust Awards 2014 Winner, best article on merger policy for 2013.
20in the Antitrust Awards 2014, category of best article on Shortlisted (eight articles)
antitrust: general for 2013. Cited by the Supreme Court is Bagatz 4501/14 Perski vs,
Director of the Antitrust Authority (23.7.2015).
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22. Mor Bakhoum and Michal S. Gal, "Introduction" in The Unique
Characteristics of Developing Jurisdictions and Their Effects on Competition Law
(Gal et al eds., Edward Elgar, 2015), pp. 1-12.
23. Thomas Cheng and Michal S. Gal, “Superior Bargaining Position Regulation:
Dealing with Aggregate Concentration Concerns” in Abuse of Dominance (Nihoul
et al. eds., Edward Elgar, 2017).
24. Michal S. Gal, “The Social Contract at the basis of Competition Law: Should
we recalibrate competition Law to limit inequality?” in Competition Policy:
between Equity and Efficiency (Lianos and Gerard eds., Cambridge University
Press, 2017).21
Reprinted (in shorter form) in CPI- Competition Chronicle (Dec. 2019).
25. Michal S. Gal, “Competition and Innovation in the Digital Economy” in Big
Data, Sharing Economic and Innovation (Valeria Falce ed., 2016).
26. Michal S. Gal, “Is bounded rationality in entry decisions necessarily bad for
social welfare?” in Entrepreneurship and Antitrust, chapter 4 (AAI, 2017)(same as
article with similar name).
27. Eran Fish and Michal S. Gal, Echo Chambers and Competition Law: Should
Algorithmic Choices be Respected?” in Liber Amicum Frederic Jenny
(Concurrences Books, 2020).
BOOK REVIEWS
1. Competition Law and Policy in the Middle East, by Maher Dabbah
(Cambridge University Press, 2007), World Competition- Law and Economics
Review (September 2007), 3 pages.
2. An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice, by Valentine
Korah (Hart Publishing, 2007), World Competition- Law and Economics
Review (June 2008), 2 pages.
3. Competition Law: Safeguarding the Consumer Interest, by Eugene Buttigieg
(Wolters Kluwer, 2009), World Competition- Law and Economics Review
(June 2010), 2 pages.
21 Shortlisted (twelve articles) in the Antitrust Writing Awards 2017 (81 articles selected
out of more than 500), category of best article on antitrust: general.
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4. Global Competition, by David Gerber (Oxford University Press, 2009) in
Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog (August 2010).
5. Global Competition, by David Gerber (Oxford University Press, 2009) in
World Competition - Law and Economics Review (March 2011), 2 pages.
6. International Competition Law, by Maher Dabbah (Cambridge University
Press, 2010), World Competition- Law and Economics Review (June 2011), 2
pages.
7. The Global Limits of Competition Law, by Ioannis Lianos and Daniel Sokol
eds. (Stanford Law Books, 2011), 39(1) World Competition- Law and
Economics Review 18-9 (2016).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. Michal S. Gal and David Gilo, “The Microsoft Decision and Its Implications
for the Israeli Market, Economic section,” Haaretz, July 8, 2001.
2. Niva Elkin-Koren and Michal S. Gal, "It is Difficult to Stop this Song- The
Napster Trial: Limiting Intellectual Property Rights by Competition
Principles," Globes, February 27, 2002. Equal contribution of authors.
3. “Size Does Matter,” Orech Hadin (The Lawyer), July 2002.
4. "Competition Policy in Small Economies," OECD Global Forum on
Competition, February 2003.
5. "Changes in Corporate Law," 14 Din Vaomer, June 2004, 43.
6. "Excessive Pricing- Abuse of Monopoly Power," Globes, February 2004.
7. "In Favor of De Minimis in Antitrust," 45 Orech Hadin, April 2004, 54.
8. "Monopolies in Competition: Intersection between Antitrust and Intellectual
Property," Science, Technology and Economics Paper, no. 25, Neeman
Institute, Technion, 2005.
9. "The role of Regional Trade agreement in Enhancing Competition Law
Enforcement," Jamaican Fair Trading Commission Yearly Newsletter,
November 2007.
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10. "The Unique Challenges of Small Economies" in Revue Concurrences, vol. 3
(September 2008).
11. American Antitrust Institute, The Next Antitrust Agenda (2008)(part of the
group who wrote the chapter on Department of Justice Criminal Enforcement).
12. *"Cartel Offenders Should not be CEOs" Haaretz, 16 December 2008, The
Marker.
13. *"The Frustration of the Director of the Antitrust Authority: No Monetary
Sanctions," Haaretz, 16 September 2009, The Marker.
14. *The Bank Decision- A Major Frustration", Haaretz, 27 October 2009, The
Marker.
I. OTHER WORKS AND ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH MY
SCHOLARLY FIELD
March 1992-November 1992: Law clerk, The Supreme Court of the State of
Israel, with the Honorable Justice Shoshana Netanyahu.
November 1993-August 1995: Lawyer, S. Horowitz & Co., Advocates,
Notaries and Patent Attorneys. Main areas: competition law, corporate law,
contract law.
September 2000- June 2001: Creation, under the direction of Prof. Bill Allen,
of the NYU Advanced Certificate Program in Law and Business, a joint
program of the NYU School of law and the Stern School of Business. Duties
included determining the substance and colloquium for this new program,
receiving all necessary certificates, marketing it and setting it in place. The
program started operating in the summer of 2001.
December 2006-September 2009: Member of public committee on ethics in
business, Maala organization, Israel (part of the international organization of
Businesses for Social Responsibility).