Hong Kong University - Norton Rose Lecture Series

FACULTY OF LAW

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG


3rd Annual Competition Law Lecture:

SMEs and competition law

by

William E. Kovacic Former Chairman, US Federal Trade Commission



Time: 6:30 - 7:30pm, Monday 21 November 2011

Venue: Wang Gangwu Theatre, Graduate House, Hong Kong University

William E. Kovacic has served on the US Federal Trade Commission from January 2006 to October 2011 and served as Chairman from March 2008 until March 2009. Mr Kovacic was the agency's General Counsel from 2001 through 2004, and he worked for the Commission from 1979 until 1983, initially in the Bureau of Competition's Planning Office and later as an attorney advisor to former Commissioner George W. Douglas. From May 2009 to October 2011, he was the Vice-Chair fro Outreach for the International Competition Network. He is the Global Competition Law and Policy Professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in 1999 and where he has now returned.

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Previous lectures

2010 The second lecture was given in September 2010 by Peter Freeman, CBE, QC, Chairman of the UK Competition Commission: What is a competitive market? The United Kingdom experience and lessons for Hong Kong. You can download the text of Chairman Freeman's lecture here.
2009 The inaugural lecture was given in September 2009 by J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission: "Terra Incognita: Vertical and Conglomerate Merger and Interlocking Directorate Law Enforcement in the United States". You can download the text of Commissioner Rosch's lecture here.
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