Every year, top-level market regulators, academics and legal practitioners attend the Annual Competition Workshop organised at the European University Institute in Florence. The speakers are invited to discuss a particular set of critical issues in the field of competition law and policy. The entire content of the proceedings - both the oral discussions and the written contributions - are published in the European Competition Law Annual series.

This is the fourteenth in the series, reproducing the debate which in 2009 examined the evaluation of evidence and its judicial review in competition cases. The issues discussed included, among others, the burden of proof, the standard of proof and the standard of review with respect to antitrust infringement decisions and merger decisions, both at the level of the EU and at the national level in a number of Member States.

In 2009, the Workshop participants were:

Rafael Allendesalazar
Kelyn Bacon
Judge Gerald Barling
Simon Bishop
Judge Joachim Bornkamm
Judge Michael Boudin
Jochen Burrichter
Dennis Carlton
Fernando Castillo de la Torre
Justin Coombs
Lorenzo Coppi
Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
John Fingleton
Ian Forrester
Judge Nicholas Forwood
Eric Gippini-Fournier
Barry Hawk
Alberto Heimler
Per Hellström
Pieter Kalbfleisch
Robert Kwinter
Bruno Lasserre
Philip Lowe
Mel Marquis
Damien Neven
Judge Aindrias Ó Caoimh
Luis Ortiz Blanco
John Ratliff
J. Thomas Rosch
Heike Schweitzer
Mario Siragusa
Jacques Steenbergen
James Venit
Judge Nils Wahl
Judge Vaughn Walker