Michal Gal
Professor @University of Haifa
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Professor @University of Haifa
Haifa, IL
Professor of Law, University of HaifaVisiting Professor: University of Chicago, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown, Toronto, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, Bocconi, Catholica University.Author: Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003)Author: more than 100 academic articles and book chapters on cometition law and law and technology.Editor: Journal of Competition Law and Economics (JCLE, Oxford University Press), 2020-Winner of numerous awards for scholarship and teaching, including:• Globes, one of ten young promising legal researchers in Israel (2007). • Global Competition Review, one of 25 most influential competition academics (law or economics) in the world (2022).• American Antitrust Institute, Jerry S. Cohen Medal for best antitrust paper (2017).• Best Senior Researcher, University of Haifa (2019). • Global Competition Review, one of 25 most influential competition academics (law or economics) in the world (2022)• Antitrust Awards, Best paper in one of ten categories (2014, 2016, 2020). • Board Member of competition law and law and technology intrernational organizations, including ASCOLA, American Antitrust Institute, Computational Antitrust (Stanford), CRESSE, Aspire (EUI).Consultant on competition law matters to jurisdictions, competition authorities, and international organizations around the worldInvited Keynote lecturer in numerous conferences around the world. Panel discussant in OECD competition events, including on small economies, global antitrust, algorithmic coordination, algorithmic competition. access to data, voice-activated shopping assistants.
EDUCATION
University of Toronto
Doctorate, Law
ABOUT MICHAL GAL
Michal Gal (LL.B, LL.M, S.J.D.) is Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, and Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She was, until recently, the President of the International Academic Society for Competition Law Scholars (ASCOLA), comprising of about 600 competition researchers worldwide. She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown, Melbourne, National University of Singapore, and Bocconi. Prof. Gal is the author of several books, including Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003). She also published numerous scholarly articles in leading journals, including on the intersection of competition law and intellectual property, on law and technology, on the effects of the size of the market on regulation, and on algorithms and big data. She has won numerous prizes for her research and for her teaching. Inter alia, her paper, won the Jerry S. Cohen Medal, given by the American Antitrust Institute, for best antitrust paper published in 2017. In 2019 she won the highest award given by her university, for Best Senior Researcher. In October 2022 she was chosen by Global Competition Review as one of 25 most influential competition academics (law or economics) in the world.Prof. Gal served as a consultant to several international organizations (including OECD, UNCTAD) on issues of competition law and was a non-governmental advisor of the International Competition Network (ICN). She also advised several small economies and regional organizations on the framing of their competition laws. She is a board member of several international antitrust organizations, including the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), The Antitrust Consumer Institute, the Asian Competition Law and Economics Center (ACLEC). She clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court, and her work is often cited in its decisions on competition matters.
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