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News | January 08, 2015

Lukáš Tóth selected International Scholar in Residence by ABA

PhD student Lukáš Tóth who has been nominated as the 2015 International Scholar in Residence by the American Bar Association, Section Antitrust Law. The Section of Antitrust Law International Scholar in Residence Program (“SAL SIR”) of the American Bar Association provides funding for up to two scholars to visit the United States to pursue competition policy-related research in the Spring of 2015.

Lukáš has been awarded a scholarship $10,000.00 to fund his research in Washington, D.C. for a period of three months. From April this year, he will  be a visiting researcher with William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at George Washington University. Lukáš’ research in the U.S. will focus on the Federal Trade Commission and the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division as government agencies with discretionary authority in enforcing the American antitrust laws.

Lukáš Tóth is an alumnus (2012) of the TI MPhil program and currently working as a TI PhD student candidate at the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) of the University of Amsterdam, supervised by TI fellows professor Jan Tuinstra and professor Maarten Pieter Schinkel. His research project is entitled ‘Decision-Making Procedures in Competition Authorities and Optimal Institutional Design’. Lukáš’ recent working paper Discretionary Authority and Prioritizing in Government Agencies, is available at SSRN.