Interplay of the Japanese Anti-monopoly Act and Blockchain
At the Institute for Future Law at Seikei University, I gave a presentation based on my article on the Antimonopoly Act and blockchain, published in NBL in October.
The slides are here: https://researchmap.jp/sei_shishido/presentations/44101585/attachment_file.pdf
I wrote that article not to discuss any detail in depth but to raise questions in the abstract.
It may be a matter of taste, but I personally quite like writing of this kind. Still, I did not write it this way just because I like it; there is background closely connected to the problems I am working on now — “the goals of antimonopoly law, economic welfare, and ideology,” “how antimonopoly law should be interpreted,” and “self-preferencing by digital platforms” — and I wrote it this way deliberately.
In this presentation I explained what I wanted to convey in the NBL article, with its connection to my research on “the goals of antimonopoly law, economic welfare, and ideology” as the main thread.
I received comments from the perspectives of many fields — administrative law, civil procedure, commercial law, and legal hermeneutics — and I think the discussion was very lively.
After the meeting, the discussion continued with colleagues I shared the elevator with, and before I knew it we had carried on the meeting in my office for more than an hour. I was moved by what a wonderful workplace this is. Seikei University is a really good university.
This post was translated from the Japanese original.