Recorded on April 21, 2021.
How the Rise of China Challenges Global Anti-Trust Regulation
About the event:
Angela Zhang will discuss her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation. Professor Zhang examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries, revealing a “Chinese exceptionalism” that is reshaping global antitrust regulation. In addition to discussing the challenges foreign multinationals face in complying with Chinese antitrust law, she also will explore the difficulties Chinese firms are encountering as US and EU antitrust regulators tighten their scrutiny over Chinese businesses.
About the speaker:
Angela Zhang is an associate professor of law and the director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. She has taught at King’s College London and practiced law for six years in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Professor Zhang received her LLB from Peking University, and her LLM, JD and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School. She wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Judge Richard A. Posner.
About the moderator:
Eleanor M. Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law. Before joining the faculty of NYU Law, Fox was a partner at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She has served as a member of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General of the US Department of Justice (1997-2000) (President Clinton) and as a commissioner on President Carter’s National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (1978-79). She has advised numerous younger antitrust jurisdictions, including South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, The Gambia, Indonesia, Russia, Poland and Hungary, and the common market COMESA.