Online retail: the changing landscape and ramifications for competition policy

Tuesday 2 December 2008 14:00 to 18:00

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
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?

Please click here for a copy of the programme.

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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