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Prof Sandra MARCO COLINO

Sandra Marco Colino is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Director of the Competition Law Summer Schools for Asian Officials at the College of Europe in Bruges, and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED). Prior to moving to Hong Kong she was a Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Glasgow. A qualified lawyer in Spain, her main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of competiti ... [more] Sandra Marco Colino is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Director of the Competition Law Summer Schools for Asian Officials at the College of Europe in Bruges, and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED). Prior to moving to Hong Kong she was a Lecturer in EU Law at the University of Glasgow. A qualified lawyer in Spain, her main teaching and research interests lie in the fields of competition law, contract law, commercial law, communications law and EU law. In 2007 she was awarded a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, and also holds an LLM from the University Carlos III of Madrid.

She has worked as a stagiaire at the European Commission in Brussels, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Birmingham and Melbourne Law School. She is a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum of Stanford University and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of European Studies in Madrid. Her editorial roles include that of Managing Director for the China Antitrust Law Journal (CHALJ) and Hong Kong news correspondent for the European Competition Law Review (ECLR).

In July 2015, Sandra was appointed Non-Governmental Advisor for Hong Kong to the International Competition Network (ICN), and in September 2016 she was invited to join the Academic Board of the law firm Dictum. She is the winner of an Antitrust Writing Award (Concurrences and GWU Law School, 2018), and a Teaching Excellence Award (CUHK, 2017). [less]

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PUBLISHED PAPERS

Distribution Agreements Under China's Monopoly Law and the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance

2017, China Antitrust Law Journal Vol. 1(1), 2017

"This paper discusses the use of distribution restraints in China and Hong Kong, and attempts to develop a general framework for their analysis under the Anti-Monopoly Law ('AML') and the Competition Ordinance ('CO'). The (limited) evidence available thus far suggests that vertical restrictions are commonplace in these jurisdictions, and that they may well have adverse effects on competition, particularly when they affect resale prices. However, since economic theory is ambivalent as to their e ...

Authors: Prof Sandra MARCO COLINO

The Perks of Being a Whistleblower: Designing Efficient Leniency Programs in New Antitrust Jurisdiction

2017, 50 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 5 (2017)

"In 1978, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) introduced a new method to detect cartels known as the Corporate Leniency Policy. The rationale behind the system, also referred to as amnesty or immunity program, was rather straightforward: the DOJ would vow not to punish a company involved in an illegal cartel in exchange for a confession and cooperation which would enable the indictment of other cartel members. Although the policy was largely unused in its original formulation, it plan ...

Authors: Prof Sandra MARCO COLINO

A History of Competition: The Impact of Antitrust on Hong Kong's Telecommunications Markets

2019, 29 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 931 (2019)

"Hong Kong has only had cross-sector competition law since 2015, but the city’s telecommunications markets have been subject to sector-specific antitrust provisions for over two decades. The importance of nurturing an efficient, innovative, and competitive telecoms industry for Hong Kong’s economic prosperity was acknowledged already at the time the sector was liberalized in the 1990s. Yet until the late 2000s, the government vehemently opposed the adoption of competition law in virtually all ...

Authors: Prof Sandra MARCO COLINO