Francesco Ducci
Francesco Ducci joined the Faculty in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on competition & antitrust policy, contracts, and law and economics. His work has been published in several leading journals and includes a monograph with Cambridge University Press on the regulation of digital platform markets. In 2022, Francesco was awarded the Best Junior Paper Award by the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).
Prior to Western, he was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and as a Member of the Competition Policy Council of the C.D. Howe Institute.
Francesco’s teaching includes Competition Law, Big Tech and Antitrust, and Contracts.
Personal website: https://francescoducci.com
Academic Degrees:
SJD and LLM (Toronto); LLB (Bologna)
| Email: | fducci@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | LB 100C |
| Office: | 519-661-2111 x88407 |
Research Interests / Specializations: Competition Policy and Antitrust Law; Law & Economics
Research Highlights
Books
Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Articles
Excessive and Unfair Prices in Canadian Abuse of Dominance, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (OUP), 2025.
Randomization as an Antitrust Remedy (2023) 20 Berkeley Bus. L.J. 218
Ex Ante Regulation and Antitrust Remedies for Digital Markets (2023) 67 Canadian Business Law Journal 65
Out-of-Market Efficiencies, Two-Sided Platforms and Consumer Welfare: A Legal and Economic Analysis (2016) 12(3) Journal of Competition Law and Economics 591.
Procedural Implications of Market Definition in Platform Cases (2019) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.
Cartel Criminalization in Europe: Addressing Deterrence and Institutional Challenges (2018) 51:1 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1.
The Revival of Fairness Discourse in Competition Policy (2019) 64 Antitrust Bulletin 79 (with Michael Trebilcock).
The Google Search Case in Europe: Tying and The Fallacy of the Single Monopoly Profit Theorem in Two-Sided Markets (2019) 47(1) European Journal of Law and Economics 15 (with Edward Iacobucci)
Regulating Financial Planners and Advisors: In Search of Regulatory Principles (2020) Canadian Business Law Journal (with Michael Trebilcock and Anita Anand).
The Evolution of Canadian Competition Policy: A Retrospective (2018) 60:2 Canadian Business Law Journal 171 (with Michael Trebilcock).
Competition Law and Policy Issues in the Sharing Economy (2018) in Derek McKee, Finn Makela, and Teresa Scassa, eds. Law and the "Sharing Economy": Regulating Online Market Platforms (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2018).
