ONG 
Tze En, Burton

 
Associate Professor

Head (Competition Law)

Dr Burton Ong is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate legal training at the National University of Singapore and Oxford University, where he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Vinerian Scholarship, as well as at Harvard Law School. Apart from Competition Law, he teaches and researches in the areas of Contract Law, Intellectual Property Law and Biodiversity Law. He has taught competition law modules to undergraduate and graduate students, both with legal and non-legal backgrounds, as well as non-legally trained IP professionals. He received University level awards for teaching excellence in 2008 and 2022.

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Contact

lawongb@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516-6463
ETS-02-30

Education

DPhil, BCL (University of Oxford); LLM (Harvard University); LLB (Hons) (NUS); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Attorney & Counsellor at Law (New York State)

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

Competition Law and Policy

Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy

Dr Burton Ong is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate legal training at the National University of Singapore and Oxford University, where he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Vinerian Scholarship, as well as at Harvard Law School. Apart from Competition Law, he teaches and researches in the areas of Contract Law, Intellectual Property Law and Biodiversity Law. He has taught competition law modules to undergraduate and graduate students, both with legal and non-legal backgrounds, as well as non-legally trained IP professionals. He received University level awards for teaching excellence in 2008 and 2022.

Since 2015, he has coached several teams of his undergraduate competition law students representing NUS at the Herbert Smith Freehills competition law moot competition, where they have emerged as champions in 2015 and 2022, while securing the runners-up position in 2017, 2020 and 2021.

Books
Burton Ong and Benjamin Wong, Contract Law in Singapore: Cases, Materials and Commentary (2nd edn, Academy Publishing 2022)

Edited Books
Burton Ong (General Editor) (ed), International Copyright Law and Practice (Matthew Bender Elite Products 2022)

Book Chapters
Burton Ong, 'Duress, Undue Influence, and Unconscionability in Contract Law: A View from Singapore' in Mindy Chen-Wishart, Hiroo Sono, and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Invalidity: Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia, Vol IV (Oxford University Press 2022) 375

Burton Ong, Celestine Song and Hi-Lin Tan, 'The Role of Competition Law and Policy in Supporting ASEAN e-Commerce' in David S. Evans, Allan Fels AO and Catherine Tucker (eds), The Evolution of Antitrust in the Digital Era: Essays on Competition Policy – Volume 1 (Competition Policy International 2020) 235

Burton Ong, 'Competition law in Singapore: the first decade' in Steven Van Uytsel, Shuya Hayashi and John O. Haley (eds), Research Handbook on Asian Competition Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020) 151

Burton Ong, 'Allocating Anti-Competitive Agreements to the ‘Object Box’: A View from Singapore' in Nicolas Charbit and Sonia Ahmad (eds), Richard Whish QC (Hon) Liber Amicorum: Taking Competition Law Outside the Box (Concurrences 2020) 121

Journal Articles
Burton Ong, 'Disentangling “Distinctiveness” in Determinations of Trade Mark Similarity in Singapore' (2023) 45 (12) European Intellectual Property Review 700

Burton Ong, 'Competition Law in ASEAN: Transplanting Legal Frameworks to Prohibit Abuse of Dominance from Europe to South East Asia' (2023) 9 Nagoya University Asian Law Bulletin 29

Burton Ong and Toh Ding Jun, 'Digital Dominance and Social Media Platforms: Are Competition Authorities Up to the Task?' (2023) 54 (4) IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 527

Burton Ong and Marissa Chok, 'Patent Injunctions, Standard Essential Patents and Patents Essential to de Facto Standards: European, German and Korean Perspectives' (2021) 43 (7) European Intellectual Property Review 417

Burton Ong, 'The Applicability of Art. 101 TFEU to Horizontal Algorithmic Pricing Practices: Two Conceptual Frontiers' (2021) 52 IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 189

Burton Ong, 'Unconscionability, Undue Influence and Umbrellas: The “Unfairness” Doctrines in Singapore Contract Law After BOM v BOK' [2020] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 295

  • Competition Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Law of Unfair Competition
  • Contract Law and Theory
  • Legal Regulation of Access to Genetic Resources