Congratulations to Professor Martin Lai and Graduate Leona Zhang on Winning a Readers’ Vote Prize at the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2025

On 1 April 2025, at the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards ceremony held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Professor Martin Lai and graduate Leona Zhang were announced as the winners of this year's Readers’ Vote Prize in the Private Enforcement category. Their award-winning article, titled “The Tension between Public Interest Litigations and Private Actions under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law,” was published in the Tsinghua China Law Review.

The Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards is the largest international writing competition in the field of antitrust, jointly organized by Concurrences Review and George Washington University Law School. Every year, among all English-language academic articles relating to antitrust published in the previous year, up to 10 articles are nominated and shortlisted by a Committee in each of the 10 thematic categories, competing for two prizes per category. This means that, in total, only 100 academic articles are nominated and shortlisted to compete for 20 prizes each year. The Awards follow a rigorous three-month selection and voting process, involving 60 international antitrust experts who constitute the jury, along with the general public.

Notably, Professor Martin Lai was also nominated and shortlisted for the same awards in 2019, 2023, and 2024.

The full list of shortlisted and winning articles is available at:

https://awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/2025/academic-articles/

Congratulations!

Graduate Leona Zhang receiving the prize on behalf of the team (Photo from Concurrences)

Graduate Leona Zhang (middle) and other awardees (Photo from Concurrences)

The ceremony at the National Press Club (United States) (Photo from Concurrences)

The program of the Antitrust Writing Awards ceremony (Photo from Concurrences)