Dr. Francesco Ducci

Biography

Francesco Ducci is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Western University, where he teaches and conducts research in competition policy and antitrust law, as well as law and economics more broadly. His scholarly work has been published in several leading academic journals, including the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. In 2020, he authored 'Natural Monopolies and Digital Platform Markets', published by Cambridge University Press, which explores the economic frameworks underlying market power in the technology sector and their implications for competition policy and digital market regulation. Ducci has received the Junior Paper Award from the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) for his article on randomization as an antitrust remedy. Before joining Western, he was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Ducci earned his SJD and LLM from the University of Toronto and holds a law degree from the University of Bologna. He has also been a visiting scholar at King's College London, and he currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, published by Oxford University Press.

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