COLEGIO DE DERECHO DE LA COMPETENCIA

Plataforma libre y gratuita de formación en derecho de la competencia
Donde se enseña el antitrust clásico y donde nació Antitrust 5.0

About the College

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The College of Competition Law (Colegio de Derecho de la Competencia) is a free, open-access platform based in Colombia, dedicated to teaching competition law. Its classes cover classic competition law: cartels, abuse of dominance, mergers, and unfair competition.

The College is also where Antitrust 5.0 was born: an original doctrinal proposal by Mauricio Velandia on how competition law should respond when competition between firms becomes part of the strategic competition between States.

Its classes are open to everyone, free of charge, and do not lead to an academic degree. Free access is a deliberate choice: the College exists to make competition law knowledge available to anyone, anywhere.

What You Can Learn Here

❇️ Classical Antitrust. Learn the foundations of competition law, including restrictive agreements, cartels, abuse of dominance, merger control, and the legal and economic analysis of markets.

❇️ Unfair Competition. Explore unfair commercial practices, their legal consequences, and the application of unfair competition law through practical case analysis.

❇️ Elective Classes. Broaden your understanding of markets and competition through complementary subjects connecting law, economics, institutions, and contemporary challenges.

What is Antitrust 5.0?

Competition between firms is increasingly intertwined with strategic competition between States. The same asset, a power grid, a data center, or a satellite constellation, can be both a market and part of a country's security. Traditional antitrust analysis, centered on efficiency and consumer welfare, remains essential, but it can fall short when critical infrastructure and strategic dependency are at stake.

Antitrust 5.0, an original doctrinal proposal developed by Mauricio Velandia, keeps efficiency as its starting point and asks further questions. Who controls the infrastructure on which others depend, and on what terms is access granted? How quickly could users and States replace an essential supplier? What would happen if that supplier stopped providing the service? To answer them, the proposal brings national security, economic and technological sovereignty, resilience, strategic dependency, and contestability into the analysis, and applies them to energy, data centers, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and the space economy.

States may support strategic sectors and national champions, but not without limits: every intervention needs a legal basis and a concrete risk to address, and must be explicit, controlled, temporary, and open to new competitors. National security does not, by itself, justify restricting competition.

Its central principle is sovereignty outward, contestability inward. Antitrust 5.0 is a doctrinal proposal, not a description of current law.

Antitrust 5.0 Collection

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Antitrust 5.0


From the Myth of Free Markets to Geoeconomic Defense


Idioma: Inglés

Competition law is often presented as a neutral tool, yet markets for energy, technology, data, and defense are shaped by State power and strategic dependency. This book sets out the proposal in seven pillars and complements the traditional efficiency analysis with a Resilience Test that takes into account security, strategic dependency, contestability, and the continuity of critical infrastructure. It is the founding text of Antitrust 5.0.


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The Keys to Space


Antitrust 5.0 and Extraterrestrial Economic Power


Idioma: Inglés

No State may appropriate outer space, but that does not prevent concentration: it shifts it toward control of transport, of the few useful locations, and of the infrastructure on which others depend. The book explains how an early advantage can turn into lasting power and proposes setting access conditions before markets consolidate, always distinguishing current law from proposals for reform. It brings Antitrust 5.0 to the space economy.


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Energía para la Inteligencia


Data Centers, infraestructura y competencia en un sistema sin margen


Idioma: Español

Artificial intelligence needs data centers, and data centers need large and continuous amounts of energy. In an electricity system with little spare capacity, access to energy and critical infrastructure becomes a question of competition. Published with CODISGEN, this book examines the relationship between energy, critical infrastructure, and competition, and brings Antitrust 5.0 to the energy sector on which the artificial intelligence economy depends.


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El Árbitro frente al contrato anticompetitivo y desleal


Justicia privada, poder económico y derecho de la competencia


Idioma: Español

Contracts brought before an arbitral tribunal may contain clauses that restrict competition, or unfair practices that affect third parties and the market. This book examines how arbitrators should act when such questions of economic public policy arise. It is built from the author’s own arbitral awards, dissenting and concurring opinions, and briefs, organized as laboratories of real cases. It brings Antitrust 5.0 to private justice.


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The Origins of Antitrust 5.0


Competition, Technology, Sovereignty and Geoeconomics An Intellectual Genealogy, 2017-2026


Idioma: Inglés

Before it became a doctrinal proposal, Antitrust 5.0 was a series of newspaper columns. This book brings together fifteen columns published by Mauricio Velandia in the Ecuadorian newspaper Expreso between 2023 and 2026, reproduced unchanged in the original Spanish within an English framework. Rather than setting out the theory systematically, it traces its history and shows how its ideas took shape before they had a name.


Classic Antitrust Collection

PODER DE MERCADO QR del libro

PODER DE MERCADO


Derecho de la competencia y control


Idioma: Español

Derecho de la competencia y del control de poder de mercado para Ecuador (Spanish). The core text of the College’s classic competition law courses: administrative and civil liability, cartels and restrictive agreements, abuse of market power, State aid, and mergers. It is not part of the Antitrust 5.0 series.


Watch Our Classes in Your Language

Our classes are taught in Spanish. You can follow them in English, French, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and other languages, subject to the translation options available on each video, using YouTube's automatic subtitles and auto-translate feature. Follow the step-by-step guide below.

Please note: these are automatic translations, not professional or certified ones. Legal terms may be translated inaccurately; when in doubt, rely on the original Spanish.

Step-by-Step Guide

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1. Play the video

Select any class from our programs and click "Play" on the YouTube player.

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2. Open Settings

Click the gear icon (⚙️) located at the bottom right corner of the YouTube player.

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3. Select Subtitles

Click on the Subtitles/CC option in the settings menu.

Select Spanish

4. Select Spanish or Auto-generated

Choose Spanish or Auto-generated) to display the original captions on the screen.

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5. Auto-translate

Go back to Settings (⚙️) > Subtitles/CC > Auto-translate Select Auto-translate and choose your language, for example English, Français, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) or Português.

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Audiencia Cero

Selected Episodes with English Subtitles



Audiencia Cero explores Antitrust 5.0 and contemporary challenges in competition law. Selected episodes include English subtitles. Additional automatic translation options may be available on YouTube, depending on the video.

Research and Academic Connections



The College teaches. Research and publications are the work of CEDEMERC, the Center for Market Law Studies (Centro de Estudios de Derecho de los Mercados), which develops the legal and economic thinking behind our classes. Scholars and institutions interested in academic exchange can find CEDEMERC's work at

www.cedemerc.com

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