Online retail: the changing landscape and ramifications for competition policy

Tuesday 2 December 2008 14:00 to 18:00

Location

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP

Participants

Co-chairs:

• Dr Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
• Stephen Kinsella OBE, Sidley Austin LLP

Speakers include:

• Christopher Stothers, Milbank Tweed
  
• Christopher Warner, Which?
  
• David Stallibrass, Office of Fair Trading
  
• John Gibson, Office of Fair Trading
  
• Professor Alan Riley, City Law School
  
• Cedric Manara, Law Department, EDHEC Business School, Nice
  
• Andrei Gurin, European Commission
• Thibaud Verge, CREST
• Melanie Thill-Tayara, Salans
• Richard Nash, eBay
• Dan Maldoom, DotEcon

How is online retailing changing the competitive landscape? Do high-end retailers face a threat from online sales by rivals, free-riding on their brand, or is the Internet a way of promoting products, which are then purchased in-store or online? In the 21st century, how appropriate are competition laws which permit selective distribution restraints, which prohibit or limit online sales? Or is this protection needed more than ever? Does the Internet provide opportunities - not just threats - for the EBays of the online world and the YSLs and Guccis of the traditional, high end world?

Solicitors and barristers may claim 3 CPD hours through attendance at this event.

This event will be followed by a reception.

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