The Portuguese Competition Authority (Autoridade da Concorrência) has given this year’s AdC Competition Policy Award to Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo for his paper ‘How Android Auto reshapes the law of refusal to deal (and what it means in practice)’. The paper is available here. Professor Ibáñez Colomo’s research examines how competition law doctrines are being adjusted to the features of digital markets, and how the emerging interpretation of the law embraces the ethos of sector-specific regulation in the field (such as the Digital Markets Act).
This is the eigth edition of the AdC Competition Policy Award, which aims to promote academic research that is ‘relevant to the application of competition law and economics at the national level’. The 2025 edition of the prize invited submissions in the area of competition law and was awarded by an international jury chaired by the President of the Portuguese Competition Authority. More information about the prize can be found here.