On September 26-27, 2013 an anniversary conference was held at the Fordham University in New York – “40th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy”. This is one of the most important international conferences devoted to global and national issues of competition law, organized annually by the Fordham Competition Law Institute, headed by Professor Barry Hawk. Mr. Sroczyński received an invitation to attend this conference as a speaker, presenting comments related to the current issues of abuse of market dominance. The presentation was made during a discussion panel entitled „Future of Unilateral Conduct Enforcement and Policy”. The panel was presided by Professor William Kovacic, former head of the Federal Trade Commission. Dr. Małgorzata Krasnodębska-Tomkiel, President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, Professor Eleanor Fox of the New York University School of Law, and Mr. Eduardo Perez Motta, former head of the Mexican competition authority and Chairman of the International Competition Network (ICN), also participated in this panel. In his conference paper entitled „Dominance, Collectivism and Behaviorism: New Perspectives?”, Mr. Sroczyński concentrated on multi-farious analysis of the collective dominant market position. Presentations and papers of the participants were published in a conference binder and by Spring 2014 they will appear as a book publication.
The conference gathered numerous representatives of competition authorities from throughout the world. Presentations were made inter alia by Mr. Joaquín Almunia, Vicepresident of the European Commission and Competition Commissioner, Mr. Alexander Italianer, head of DG COMP, Mr. Andreas Mundt, head of the Bundekartellamt, Mr. William J. Baer, head of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Ms. Edith Ramirez, head of the US Federal Trade Commission. Panels were also attended by judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, competition courts from Brasil and the Republic of South Africa, as well as by representatives of the doctrine of law, university professors, and practitioners from leading law firms and economic consultancies.