Publications

This paper evaluates current food commodity trading from the Shariah point of view, which is particularly relevant for the MENA region. It focuses on futures contracts as the main instrument for grain trading and analyzes the traders’ activities. Through a qualitative and multifaceted approach, the paper accumulates and evaluates the suggestions for 15 Shariah-based alternatives to futures by contemporary researchers.

Настоящий научно-практический комментарий к Федеральному закону «О защите конкуренции» подготовлен ведущими юристами и экономистами, профессионально занимающимися вопросами антимонопольного регулирования.

The Empirical Study was conducted for the support of the discussion during the Roundtable ‘Combating Cross-Border Cartels’ in course of the Eighth United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Set on Mutually Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices which took place on 22 October 2020. The current Report serves as a contribution of the Centre to the mentioned Roundtable.

The digital economy is gradually gaining traction through a variety of recent technological developments, including the introduction of the Internet of things, artificial intelligence and markets for data. This innovative book contains contributions from leading competition law scholars who map out and investigate the anti-competitive effects that are developing in the digital economy.

The book addresses the question of whether technical standards decided and published by official Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and referred to in Regulations, Directives or, generally, in EU law be regarded as “law” that must be accessible to the public, or could these standards still be private goods, licensed for royalties and, indeed, only accessible by a few?

This chapter – without any attempt to discuss all issues – sketches a framework for how to address platforms under competition law, i.e. on what levels or dimensions do they conduct their business and compete, what exclusionary unilateral practices are relevant in the digital economy, and, hence, should they be prohibited under competition law when taking into consideration legal and economic theory?

This article takes stock of the panel and Appellate Body jurisprudence on ALOP and offers some thoughts, de interpretatione ferenda, on the direction that future jurisprudence should take.

These days, the world and every country in it are faced with the task of ensuring food security for people. It’s of current interest also for the BRICS countries. The ability to access genetic information and materials for seed production depends on intellectual property regimes.

The author addresses three myths, on which, as on three whales, the intellectual property protection regime established in post-Soviet Russia is based, aimed at serving the interests of global monopolies to the detriment of the interests of the Russian economy and society, including innovative start-ups. These are myths about legal monopoly, the great incentive and the good foreign investor.

In this paper we study various formal definitions of fairness that can be embedded into ML algorithms and show that the root cause of most debates about AI fairness is society’s lack of a consistent understanding of fairness generally. We conclude that AI regulations stipulating an abstract fairness principle are ineffective societally.

The report focuses on one of the most crucial questions of our time — the new forms of competitive interaction in the era of digital capitalism.

The report identifies a number of critical areas of regulation from the perspective of breakthrough scientific and technological and economic development, from the regulation of data turnover to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency markets, while comparing the experience of different countries and different approaches to regulation.