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Examines regional competition policy developments in South East Asia, exploring a broad range of related issues from diverse perspectives.
List of contents
1. Competition law and policy in the ASEAN region: origins, objectives and opportunities Burton Ong; 2. Regionalisation of competition law and policy in ASEAN: why, how, and when? Wan Khatina Nawawi; 3. Diversity in national competition laws in the ASEAN region and the resulting challenges for businesses operating in the region Corinne Chew; 4. Competition law, state-owned enterprises and regional market integration in ASEAN Pornchai Wisuttisak and Cheong May Fong; 5. Can ASEAN achieve a single market with national-only competition law? Eleanor M. Fox; 6. Models of regional cooperation in competition law and policy from around the world: lessons for the ASEAN region G. Deniz Both; 7. The transplantability of the EU's competition law framework into the ASEAN region Josef Drexl; 8. Convergence and divergence within the EU's supranational competition law framework: norms, enforcement rules and prioritisation in the UK and Ireland Barry J. Rodger and Mary Catherine Lucey; 9. Antitrust appraisal of vertical agreements in the ASEAN economic community: proposals for a more harmonised approach Alison Jones; 10. Application of competition law to public services: the EU experience, the ASEAN approach and implications for regional integration in ASEAN Andrea Gideon; 11. Developing regional competition policy for ASEAN in the telecommunications sector John Townsend.
About the author
Burton Ong is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches and researches in the areas of competition law, contract law and intellectual property law. He is a Director (Competition Law) at the NUS EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. His academic writings have been published by Competition Policy International (CPI), World Competition, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC), Intellectual Property Quarterly (IPQ), European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), European Competition Law Review (ECLR), Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar and Hart Publishing. He is also a consultant on competition law matters to private and public sector organisations in and around Singapore.
Summary
Readership of this book includes: competition/antitrust law academics, students, practitioners, enforcement agencies and policymakers. It examines how and why competition policy is needed at a regional level, over and above national competition law regimes, and the role it plays in facilitating the markets within ASEAN.
