Academic Staff

Thomas Cheng 鄭建韓

Assistant Professor
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University (1999)
Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School (2002)
Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford (2003)
Member of New York State Bar

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Public and External Positions:

Member, Chairman of Competition Policy Committee, Hong Kong Consumer Council
Member, Telecommunications (Competition Provisions) Appeal Board, HKSAR Government
Member, Administrative Appeals Board, HKSAR Government
Member, Registration of Persons Tribunal, HKSAR Government
Member, Energy Advisory Committee, HKSAR Government
Member, Committee on Slot Complaints, HKSAR Government

Non-governmental advisor, International Competition Network
Member, Executive Board, ASCOLA
Member, Academic Board, Asian Competition Forum

Publications:

Culture and Antitrust, in THE LIMITS OF ANTITRUST (Ioannis Lianos & Danny Sokol eds.) (Stanford University Press 2012) (forthcoming).

A Developmental Approach to the Patent-Antitrust Interface, 28(3) Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law (2011) (forthcoming).

The Lifting of Corporate Veil Doctrine in Hong Kong: An Empirical, Comparative, and Development Perspective, 40(3) Common Law World Review (2011) (forthcoming).

Compulsory Licensing of Intellectual Property in Competition Law, in KOMMUNIKATION: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR ROLF H. WEBER ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAG 427-37 (Rolf Sethe, Andreas Heinemann, Reto M. Hilty, Peter Nobel & Roger Zäch eds.) (Stämpfli Verlag AG Bern 2011).

The Corporate Veil Doctrine Revisted: A Comparative Study of the English and the U.S. Corporate Veil Doctrines, 34(2) Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 329-412 (2011).

Form and Substance of the Doctrine of Piercing of Corporate Veil, 80(2) Mississippi Law Journal 497-584 (2010).

Competition Law Enforcement in the Television Broadcasting Sector in Hong Kong: Past Cases and Recent Controversies, 33(2) World Competition (2010) 317-43 (nominated for the journal’s Young Writers’ Award).

Striking a Balance between Competition Law Enforcement and Patent Policy: A Developing Country’s Perspective, in THE EFFECTS OF ANTI-COMPETITIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS 633-59 (Hassan Qaqaya & George Lipimile eds.) (UNCTAD 2008).

A Tale of Two Competition Law Regimes—The Telecom-Sector Competition Regulation in Hong Kong and Singapore, 30(3) World Competition 501-526 (2007) (nominated for the journal’s Young Writers’ Award).

Conference presentations and papers:

Competition Law Enforcement in Hong Kong, East Asian Economic Law Symposium, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, February 2009.

The Interface between Competition Law Enforcement and Patent Policy: A Developing Country’s Perspective, The Fourth Asian Competition Law Conference, Hong Kong, December 2008.

The Interface between Intellectual Property and Competition Law in China, Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, July 2008.

The Attribution of Competence between Community and National Competition Authorities and the Application of Competition Rules, Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy, Ninth Session, UNCTAD, Geneva, July 2008.

Leveraging of Monopoly Power from a Developing Country’s Perspective, Asian Competition Forum Singapore Conference, Singapore, May 2008.

The Interface between Intellectual Property and Competition Law in China, Asian IP Law & Policy Day—Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, Fordham Law School, New York, April 2007.

Examining the Tying Aspect of the European Court of First Instance Microsoft Case, Roundtable on IP, Media and Competition Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 2008.

Regulating Abuse of Administrative Monopoly under the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law, The Third Asian Competition Law Conference, Hong Kong, December 2007.

Recent Development in Competition Law in Hong Kong and China, Kyoto University, Kyoto, November 2007.

Regulating Economic Local Protectionism in China, Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Berlin, July 2007.

Striking A Balance between Merger Control and Industrial Policy in the Developing Country Context, Asian Law Institute Annual Conference 2007, Jakarta, May 2007.

Striking a Balance between Enforcement of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Laws in a Developing Country: The Chinese Perspective, Asian IP Law & Policy Day—Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, Fordham Law School, New York, United States, April 2007.

Promoting Competition in Two Former British Colonies: The Common Law and Regulatory Experiences of Singapore and Hong Kong, The Second Asian Competition Law Conference, Hong Kong, PRC, December 2006.

Specialized Areas: Competition Law