Davis Polk partner Jesse Solomon and associate Gregory Morrison have been nominated for the 2022 Antitrust Writing Awards, organized by Concurrences and the George Washington University Law School’s Competition Law Center. Published in the Antitrust Law Journal, Jesse and Gregory’s article, “Consumers and Citizens: The Future of the Consumer Welfare Standard in Global Merger Review,” is nominated for best Academic Article, in the “Mergers” subcategory. The article provides a comparative framework for understanding the similarities and differences in merger review approaches in the United States and in China. Doni Bloomfield, a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a former Davis Polk summer associate, co-authored the article.

The Antitrust Writing Awards look to promote competition scholarship and to contribute to competition advocacy by selecting the best antitrust writings published in the past year. The winners of the 2022 awards will be announced on April 5, 2022.

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