Description

This book was the product of a research project co-funded by the CLB and the Competition Commission of Singapore in late 2013 where leading competition law scholars from 8 jurisdictions in Asia presented papers at a symposium (“Competition Law and Cartels: An Asian Perspective”) held at the National University of Singapore.

About The Editors

Thomas Cheng is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College, and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on competition law and policy issues, especially comparative competition law and competition law in developing countries. He is a member of the Competition Commission, Administrative Appeals Board, the Energy Advisory Committee, the Committee on Slots Complaints, and the Consumer Council, where he is also the chairman of the Competition Policy Committee. He has assisted the Hong Kong government in drafting the city’s first comprehensive competition law. He is also a member of the executive board of the Academic Society for Competition Law (“ASCOLA”).

Sandra Marco Colino is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently the Director of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (“CFRED”), and the Deputy Director of the European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong. She previously taught EU and competition law at the University of Glasgow, and worked as a stagiaire at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. A qualified lawyer in Spain, called to the Madrid Bar, her main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of competition law, communications law, EU law, and the regulation of gambling. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, and she also holds an LLM in EU Law from the University Carlos III of Madrid. Sandra is a member of the Academic Society of Competition Law (“ASCOLA”), a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (“TTLF”) of Stanford University, and an Associate Researcher at the University Institute for European Studies in Madrid. She is the founder of the Communications Policy and Regulation Scholars Forum (“CPRSF”) and the Hong Kong news contributor for the European Competition Law Review.

Dr Burton Ong (DPhil / B.C.L (Oxon), LL.M (Harv), LL.B (NUS)) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore where he teaches and researches in the areas of Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Contract Law. He is a Director at the NUS Centre for Law and Business (“CLB”), focusing on Competition Law matters, and Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (“APCEL”). He also serves as the Chairman of the Gas Market Surveillance Panel, the branch of the Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) responsible for regulating competition in the gas industry, as well a member of the Dispute Resolution Board of the Casino Regulatory Authority (“CRA”).