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
- 2025 – Linda J. Visser, Charles M. Wright, Georgia Hamilton The New Abuse of Dominance Regime in Canada - An Opportunity for Greater Enforcement and Justice
- 2024 – Andy Baziliauskas and Margaret Sanderson Should Canada Overhaul the SLPC Test For Mergers?
- 2023 – Edward Lacobucci The Competition Bureau’s Rejection of Efficiency as the Key Criterion in Competition Policy: A Critique
- 2022 – Michael Caldecott Paradigm or Paradox: Canada’s Competition Law Regime in the New Age of Populism
- 2021 – Kenneth Jull and Nicole Spadotto Digital Advertising and Purchasing: Fun or a New Type of Deception?
- 2020 – Paul-Erik Veel Antitrust Convergence in a Divergent Regulatory Environment: The IPEGs' Treatment of Reverse Payment Settlements of Pharmaceutical Litigation
- 2019 – John Pecman Unleash Canada's Competition Watchdog: Improving the effectiveness and ensuring the independence of Canada's Competition Bureau
- 2019 – Mohsen Seddigh Section 36 Requests for Access to Information and the Competition Bureau: hast thou forsaken me?
- 2018 – Roger Ware The Economics of Multiproduct Loyalty Programs
- 2018 – John F. Rook & Emrys Davis Mediating Before the Competition Tribunal: Lessons from the Parkland Mediation
- 2017 – Mihkel Tombak The Innovation Defence
- 2017 – Anita Banicevic Assessing General Impression under the Competition Act: The Credulous Man Who Was Never There
- 2016 – Ralph A. Winter Tervita and the Efficiency Defence in Canadian Merger Law
- 2016 – Pierre-Christian Collins Hoffman & Guy Pinsonnault The Purpose, Nature and Constitutionality of the Presumptions of Section 69 of the Competition Act