How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation and How to Strike Back: A Virtual Conversation with the University of Hong Kong

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Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law

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Introduction: This book talk deconstructs the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explains how large tech companies can stifle rather than promote disruptive innovation, assesses the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outlines policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs. More information about this book is available here.

Speakers: Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law at the University of Oxford and the Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) and the author, editor and co-editor of numerous books, including Competition Overdose (2020, HarperCollins), Virtual Competition (2016, Harvard), EU Competition Law - An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases (6th ed, 2018, Hart). Maurice Stucke is the Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches antitrust, privacy, business torts, law and economics, and evidence. With twenty-five years experience handling a range of competition policy issues in both private practice and as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Stucke testified before, and provided expert reports for, multiple governments and inter-governmental agencies, including the World Bank, United Nations, European Commission, and Federal Trade Commission.

Discussant: Kelvin Kwok is Associate Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong. He is also Deputy Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Technology Centre. He specialises in the comparative, economic and philosophical analysis of competition and consumer law and policy, with particular interest in technology-related issues. His monograph on Hong Kong competition law (co-authored with Thomas Cheng) will soon be published by Cambridge University Press. He has advised on a wide range of competition and consumer matters as a practising barrister at Des Voeux Chambers, a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network, and a co-opted member of the Consumer Council.

Chair: Dr. Angela Zhang, Director of Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong

Publication Date

9-8-2022

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