Sandra Marco Colino is an Associate Professor. She specialises in competition law, merger control, EU law, law & economics, telecommunications, and technology (including the digital economy). She joined the Faculty in 2010 and is the incoming Deputy Programme Director of the Master of Laws (LLM) in International Economic Law. She previously directed the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED), and the Summer Schools on EU Competition Law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). She sits on the Academic Board of the law firm Dictum and has served as Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, she was a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (UK).

Prof. Marco Colino holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and an LLM from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). A qualified lawyer in Spain and a member of the Madrid Bar, she has worked as stagiaire at the European Commission (Belgium) and has trained in various Madrid law firms. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA), the University of California – Berkeley (USA), the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum of Stanford University (USA), and an Associate Researcher at the Royal University Institute for European Studies in Madrid. In 2010 she founded the Communications Policy and Regulation Scholars Forum (CPRSF). She is the Hong Kong news correspondent to the European Competition Law Review, and an analyst for Agenda Pública.

Her award-winning research has been extensively published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of various books, including the leading textbook Competition Law of the EU and UK (Oxford University Press), now in its 8th edition, and the monograph Vertical Agreements and Competition Law (Hart). She is the Principal Investigator of three major research projects funded by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council, and a member of two EU-funded Jean Monnet research networks. She was a founding member and the Deputy Director of the European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong, a collaboration between four of the city’s leading universities co-funded by the European Union.

Prof. Marco Colino’s honours and recognitions include the Global Competition Review Academic Excellence Award (2020), an Antitrust Writing Award (2018), an award for best paper and presentation from Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies (2004), and a Teaching Excellence Award (2017).

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
• LL.M. (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
• Degree in Law (Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid)
• Qualified lawyer (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (University of Glasgow)

AWARDS

• Nominee, Antitrust Writing Award (Institute for Competition Law) 2022
• Nominee, Antitrust Writing Award (Institute for Competition Law) 2021
• Nominee, Antitrust Compliance Award (Institute of Competition Law) 2021
• Winner, Academic Excellence Award (Global Competition Review) 2020
• Doble nominee, Antitrust Writing Award (Institute of Competition Law) 2019
• Winner, Antitrust Writing Award (Institute of Competition Law) 2018
• Winner, Teaching Excellence Award (CUHK) 2017
• First runner-up, Antitrust Writing Awards (Institute of Competition Law) 2017
• Nominee, Teaching Excellence Award (CUHK) 2016
• Winner, GCES Award for Best Paper and Presentation (Georgetown University) 2004
• Award for Academic Excellence (Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid) 1995

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

• Member of the Academic Board, Dictum Abogados
• Member, East Asia Network on Competition Policy and Law (EANCP)
• Member, Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)
• Founder and Director, Communications Policy and Regulation Scholars Forum (CPRSF)
• News correspondent (Hong Kong), European Competition Law Review
• Analyst, Agenda Pública

PAST APPOINTMENTS

• Director, Summer Schools on EU Competition Law for Asian Officials, College of Europe, Bruges (2017-2022)
• Deputy Director, Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED) (2017-2021)
• Co-Managing Editor, China Antitrust Law Journal (2016-2018)
• Member, Academic Steering Committee, Antitrust Writing Awards (2017-2018)
• Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA), International Competition Network (ICN) (2015-2018)
• Director, Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (2014-2017)
• Deputy Director, European Union Academic Programme Hong Kong (2013-2016)
• Lecturer in EU and Competition Law, University of Glasgow (2005-2010)
• Section Editor (Asia-Pacific Region), Journal of Contemporary European Research (2010-2013)
• Guest Professor, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles, Madrid (2009-2011)
• Assistant Editor, International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (2009-2011)
• Tutor (Contract, Delict and Evidence), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2009-2010)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Business Law
• Commercial Law
• Competition Law
• Contract Law
• Economic Law
• EU Law
• Merger Control
• Technology Law
• Tort

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Prof. Marco Colino is currently co-supervising the following Ph.D. theses:

• OSASU, Osamede, Liberalization of the Nigerian Electricity Industry: The Difficult Transition from Monopoly to Market (expected 2021)
• SU, Xueji, The Legal Framework of China-EU Economic Relations: A Normative Analysis in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Evolving Economic Diplomacy (expected 2021)
• LI, Wan, Data Protection in the Big Data Industry (expected 2023)
• TSEGA, Chimdessa Fekadu, The Harmonization of Intellectual Property Rights Protection Regimes within the African Continental Free Trade Area (expected 2023)

Previously, Prof. Marco Colino has co-supervised the following successful Ph.D. theses:

• YIN, Bei, The Regulation of Cross‐Border M&As: a Perspective from the Goals of Competition Law of the People’s Republic of China (awarded a Ph.D. in 2016)
• JEDLICKOVA, Barbora, The Law of Vertical Territorial and Price Restraints in the EU and in the USA: a Critical Analysis of Vertical Territorial and Price Restraints – an Argument against Legalization (awarded a Ph.D. in 2012)
• HAO, Junqi (on exchange from China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Limits of Financial Punishment in Competition Law, Edward Elgar (forthcoming 2021)
• Vertical Agreements and Competition Law: A Comparative Study (2nd edition), Hart (forthcoming 2021)
• Competition in Telecommunications Markets: Key Regulatory Challenges (edited), Wolters Kluwer (December 2020)
• Competition Law of the EU and the UK (8th edition), Oxford University Press (June 2019)
• Cartels in Asia: Law and Practice (co-edited with Thomas Cheng and Burton Ong), Wolters Kluwer (May 2015)
• Cartels and Anti-competitive Agreements, in Competition Law (3 Volume Set, co-edited with Jonathan Galloway and Rosa Greaves), Ashgate (December 2012)
• Competition Law of the EU and the UK (7th edition), Oxford University Press (May 2011)
• Vertical Agreements and Competition Law: A Comparative Study of the EU and US Regimes, Hart (January 2010)

Articles

• ‘The Incursion of Antitrust into China’s Platform Economy‘ (2022) 67 Antitrust Bulletin 237-258
• ‘The Case Against Alibaba in China and Its Wider Policy Repercussions‘ (2022) 10 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 217-229
• ‘The Internationalization of China’s Foreign Direct Investment Laws‘ (2021) 45 Fordham International Law Journal 275-314
• ‘The Long Arm of State Aid Law: Crushing Corporate Tax Avoidance’ (2020) 44 Fordham International Law Journal 397-467
• ‘The Antitrust F Word: Fairness Considerations in Competition Law’ [2019] Journal of Business Law 329-345 – NOMINEE, ANTITRUST WRITING AWARDS 2019
• ‘A History of Competition: The Impact of Antitrust on Hong Kong’s Telecommunications Markets’ (2019) 29 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 931-969 – NOMINEE, ANTITRUST WRITING AWARDS 2019
• ‘The Lundbeck Case and the Concept of Potential Competition’ (2017) Concurrences Review 2-2017 (with Niamh Dunne, Knut Fournier, Sofia Pais and Derek Ritzmann) – WINNER, ANTITRUST WRITING AWARDS 2019
• ‘All Eyes on Intel: A Stepping Stone to a Fresh Legal Framework for the Analysis of Rebates Under EU Competition Law’ (2017) Concurrences Review 1-2017, 16-35
• ‘The Perks of Being a Whistleblower: Designing Efficient Leniency Programs in New Antitrust Jurisdictions’ (2017) 50 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 535-581 – FIRST RUNNER-UP, ANTITRUST WRITING AWARDS 2017
• ‘Distribution Agreements under the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law and the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance’ (2017) 1 China Antitrust Law Journal 1-35
• ‘What Role for EU Competition Law in Regulated Industries? Reflections on the Orange Polska Case’ (2016) 9 Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies 265-277
• ‘Sanctions for Cartel Conduct in Hong Kong: Past and Present’ (2015) 9 Competition Policy International
• ‘Recent Changes in the Regulation of Motor Vehicle Distribution in Europe – Questioning the Logic of Sector-Specific Rules for the Car Industry’ (2010) 6 Competition Law Review 203-224
• ‘Taking Solace in Self-Exclusion? Problem Gambling, a Duty of Care and the Impact on EC Private Law’ (2009) 17 European Review of Private Law, pp. 387-395 (with Martin Doris)
• ‘Online Gambling – Reconciling New Technology and the International Consumer Interest’ [2007] Law and Technology (with Martin Doris)
• ‘On the Road to Perdition? The Future of the European Car Industry and Its Implications for EC Competition Law’ (2007) 28 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 35-88
• ‘Towards Greater Flexibility or Deadlock? The Progress of European Integration since the Introduction of Enhanced Cooperation’ (2004) Paper 24/4, The Federal Trust

Chapters in edited collections

• ‘Hong Kong’s Revised Leniency Policy and Its Potential to Uncover Cartels’, in van Uytsel, S. and Fenwick, M. (eds), Leniency Policies in Asia, Cambridge University Press (2021)
• ‘There’s Something About Telecoms: The Application of Competition Law to the Hong Kong Telecommunications Sector’, in Marco Colino, S. (ed), Competition in Telecommunications Markets: Key Regulatory Challenges, Wolters Kluwer (December 2020)
• ‘Brexit, Post-Truth Politics and the Triumph of a Messy Vision of Democracy over Technocracy’, in Joerges, C. (ed), Brexit and Academic Citizenship, European University Institute and IHELG Monograph No. 17-07 (2016)
• ‘Punishing Cartel Behaviour: Means to Encourage Compliance with the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance’ in Cheng, C., Marco Colino, S. and Ong, B. (eds), Cartels in Asia: Law and Practice, Wolters Kluwer (2015) – NOMINEE, ANTITRUST COMPLIANCE AWARDS 2021
• ‘The Deterrent Value of the Sanctions Imposed on Cartels under Spanish Competition Law’, in Maíllo González-Orús, J. and Porras Belarra, J. (eds), The Fight Against Cartels in Spain, Thomson Reuters (2015)
• ‘The Role of the ECJ in Re-Defining the Relationship between EU Competition Law Enforcement Provisions and the European Convention of Human Rights’, in Recent Trends in the Case Law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Wolters Kluwer (2012), with Martin Doris
• ‘Reforming the Reform: The New Rules for Vertical Agreements in the EU’, in Beneyto, J. M. and Bellis, J. F. (eds) Reviewing Vertical Restraints in Europe: Reform, Key Issues and National Enforcement, Bruylant (2012)
• ‘The Challenges for EC Competition Law in Light of the Uncertain Future of the European Automobile Industry’, in Ortiz Blanco, L. and Leskinen, C. (eds), Spanish and European Competition Law, Vol. XI (2009)
• ‘The Impact of Agriculture on the Success of the Eastern Enlargement of the EU’ in Ott, A. and Inglis, K. (eds) The Constitution for Europe and an Enlarging Union: Unity in Diversity? Europa Law Publishing (2005)

Book Reviews

• ‘Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law’ by Or Brook, Modern Law Review (forthcoming 2023)
• ‘Chinese State Owned Enterprises and EU Merger Control’ by Alexandr Svetlicinii, European Law Review (forthcoming 2022)
• ‘EU Distribution Law’ by Joanna Goyder, European Law Review (2012)
• ‘The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement’ by Daniel Crane, Antitrust Law and Policy Blog (2011)

Other Contributions

• ‘Towards a Global Big Tech Clampdown?‘ (2021) Agenda Pública
• ‘The European Commission’s War Against the Tax Evasion Practices of Multinationals’ (2020) Agenda Pública
• ‘The ‘Woman Question’ is Decisive for the Future of the European Project’ (2016) Agenda Pública (2016)
• ‘The Hong Kong Competition Law Era’ (2015) Chillin’ Competition
• ‘Wake Up and Smell the Competition: Hong Kong’s New (Caffeinated?) Competition Law’ (2012) Chillin’ Competition

RESEARCH GRANTS (SELECTION)

• ‘Improving Cartel Detection and Deterrence in Hong Kong and China’ (Principal Investigator), General Research Fund, Research Grants Council (2019/22), HKD 397,500
• ‘Improving Cartel Detection and Deterrence’ (Principal Investigator), Direct Grant, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2018/19), HKD 56,760
• ‘Enhancing Competition and Innovation in Hong Kong’s Telecommunications Industry’ (Principal Investigator), Public Policy Research Scheme, Research Grants Council (2012/16), HKD 379,000
• ‘Challenges for the Regulation of Communications in the 21st Century in France and Hong Kong’ (Principal Investigator), PROCORE – France / Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, Research Grants Council (2011/12), quantity: HKD 106,600
• ‘Emerging Challenges for the Regulation of Communications in the 21st Century’ (Principal Investigator), CUHK Direct Grant (2011/12), quantity: HKD 37,000
• ‘Challenges in the Fight Against Cartels: Enhanced Efficiency, Best Practices and the Way Forward’ (Co-Investigator), Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (2016-19), quantity: EUR 25,000
• ‘European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong’ (Deputy Director and Co-Investigator), European Commission (2012/2016), quantity: EUR 950,000
• ‘The Fight Against Hardcore Cartels in Spain’ (Co-Investigator), Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (2012/15), quantity: EUR 24,000
• ‘Socio-legal Perspectives on the ‘Glocalised’ Gambling Industry’, Workshop Grant, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2011)
• ‘First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Communications Policy and Regulation’, Adam Smith Research Foundation Seedcorn Fund, University of Glasgow (2009/10), quantity: GBP 1,303
• ‘International Conference on Competition Law’ at the University of Chongqing, British Universities’ China Committee grant (2008), quantity: GBP 737
• Salvador de Madariaga grant for comparative research, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004)