The Bill Miller Memorial Award was established by the CBA Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section in memory of the late William (Bill) Miller, former General Counsel of the Competition Bureau Legal Services division of the Department of Justice. This award honours Bill's outstanding contribution and more than 25 years of leadership in the area of Canadian competition law enforcement.
CRITERIA & ELIGIBILITY
The award is presented annually for up to two of the best articles published in the Canadian Competition Law Review during the previous calendar year. The Canadian Competition Law Review welcomes submissions of original articles, case comments, book reviews, and essays on significant current issues of competition law and economics in French or English.
Articles are evaluated by a jury established by the Editorial Board of the Canadian Competition Law Review based on the following criteria:
- Originality
- Theoretical and practical value
- Quality of supporting evidence/legal support
- Quality of writing
SELECTION PROCESS
- Articles are selected from the papers published in the Canadian Competition Law Review during the previous calendar year. Papers must be submitted through the regular submission process for the Canadian Competition Law Review and be accepted for publication.
- Articles are evaluated by a jury established by the Editorial Board of the Canadian Competition Law Review.
AWARD & PRESENTATION
Each award (maximum of two per year) consists of a monetary prize, a certificate, as well as award presentation at the annual Spring Competition Law Conference.
PAST WINNERS
- 2023 – Edward Iacobucci for the article, The Competition Bureau’s Rejection of Efficiency as the Key Criterion in Competition Policy: A Critique
- 2022 – Michael Caldecott for the article, Paradigm or Paradox: Canada’s Competition Law Regime in the New Age of Populism
- 2021 – Kenneth Jull and Nicole Spadotto for their article, Digital Advertising and Purchasing: Fun or a New Type of Deception?
- 2020 – Paul-Erik Veel for his paper, Antitrust Convergence in a Divergent Regulatory Environment: The IPEGs' Treatment of Reverse Payment Settlements of Pharmaceutical Litigation
- 2019 – John Pecman for his paper, Unleash Canada's Competition Watchdog: Improving the effectiveness and ensuring the independence of Canada's Competition Bureau
- 2019 – Mohsen Seddigh for his paper, Section 36 Requests for Access to Information and the Competition Bureau: hast thou forsaken me?
- 2018 – Roger Ware for his paper, The Economics of Multiproduct Loyalty Programs
- 2018 – John F. Rook & Emrys Davis for their paper, Mediating Before the Competition Tribunal: Lessons from the Parkland Mediation
- 2017 – Mihkel Tombak for his paper, The Innovation Defence
- 2017 – Anita Banicevic for her paper, Assessing General Impression under the Competition Act: The Credulous Man Who Was Never There
- 2016 – Ralph A. Winter for his paper, Tervita and the Efficiency Defence in Canadian Merger Law
- 2016 – Pierre-Christian Collins Hoffman & Guy Pinsonnault for their paper, The Purpose, Nature and Constitutionality of the Presumptions of Section 69 of the Competition Act