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Christian Bergqvist

Christian Bergqvist is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law and Senior Fellow at the GW Competition and Innovation Lab at The George Washington University. He specializes in EU Competition law, with particular interest in its application for deregulated and network tied sector (telecom, energy, post, and transport), and abuse of dominance, in general and within these sectors. He has extensive experience with competition law as an academic practitioner. Before becoming a full time academic, he served 5 years as a lawyer at Tier 1-law firms, representing clients before the judicial and administrative bodies on competition law matters.
Antitrust and Competition

Taking Stock of EU’s Case Against Google Shopping Before Final Ruling

Christian Bergqvist
On September 10, the highest judicial authority in the EU, the Court of Justice, will rule on Google Shopping, closing a case opened 15 years ago and instrumental in changing the narrative on Big Tech. Christian Bergqvist summarizes the history of Google Shopping and discusses its possible outcomes.
Antitrust and Competition

The US Google Search Case Is Really About Monopolizing the Future

Christian Bergqvist
A United States federal court has found Google in breach of the Sherman Act by pursuing default status for Google Search and Google Chrome. However, Google's motives and the precise ways in which Google Search’s default status serves its interests remain poorly understood by the public and the antitrust community. They pertain to preventing users from migrating to competitors’ offerings in general and, in particular, to capturing user migration to next-generation platforms to access and search the internet. Understanding this motive will be essential in the calibration of forthcoming remedies and provide lessons for future cases against Google and other tech companies also confronted with user migration.
Antitrust and Competition

Taking Stock of Google’s Antitrust Troubles as the World Turns Against It

Christian Bergqvist
Christian Bergqvist has identified 100-plus antitrust cases against Google spanning 23 jurisdictions and classifies them by the service in question and its alleged harms. Most of these fall within eight groups. Bergqvist’s analysis provides a picture of recent shifts in antitrust enforcers’ regulation of Big Tech and the potentially transformative consequences for Google and the entire tech industry.
Antitrust and Competition

What the Department of Justice Can Learn from the European Union’s Antitrust Investigations Into Google

Christian Bergqvist
The Department of Justice has opened antitrust investigations into Google's (alleged) attempt to monopolize online advertising. While the case recycles old grievances against Google,...
Antitrust and Competition

Self-Favoring in the Digital Economy and the Role of Antitrust

Christian Bergqvist
At the moment, the strategy of the major tech platforms seems to be to deny any bias and malicious self-favoring. The facts, however, do...

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