Dr Philip Marsden

Director, Competition Law Forum and Senior Research Fellow

Philip is a competition lawyer with a particular interest in abuse of dominance, consumer welfare, and international competition issues. He is Non-executive Director on the Board of the UK Office of Fair Trading; Editor of the European Competition Journal; and a Founding Director of World Trade Institute Advisors. Prior to joining the İnstitute, Philip practised competition law in Toronto, Tokyo and London, advising firms in the retail, software and mobile telephony sectors and still acts as an advisor and expert witness in these areas. Philip also chairs or advises various committees and has the following affiliations:

Publications

Books

Journals

Articles/Chapters

Presentations

  • 'Cartel Investigations and Enforcement in Small Economies', 8th Annual Meeting of the ICN, Zurich, 2-5 June 2009
  • 'Suction Effect: What is the Attraction?', Issues at the Forefront of Monopolization and Abuse of Dominance, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel, 24-26 May 2009
  • 'The Rule of Law and EU Competition Law', Linklaters, London, 8 October 2008
  • 'Mergers in High-Tech Markets', 12th Annual Competition Conference, Fiesole, Italy, 19-20 September 2008
  • 'Re-Examining Trans-Atlantic Divergences in Substantive and Procedural Competition Law', Antitrust Law and Litigation X: The Globalisation of Antitrust Enforcement, The Sedona Conference, 17-18 September 2008
  • 'Which Competition Policy for Regulated Industries?', Anticompetitive State Intervention: Evolution of Standards and Remedies, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-6 September 2008
  • 'A Little (Competition Law) Learning is a Dangerous Thing: The WTO Decision in Telmex', Globalisation, International Enforcement and Extraterritoriality, CLaSF Workshop, London, 4 September 2008
  • 'Article 82 and Structural Remedies After Microsoft', International Competition Forum, St Gallen, 22-23 May 2008
  • 'A Deregulated Economy without Competition Law: Free Market or Free Jungle?', Third Business Law Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abuja, Nigeria, 27 March 2008
  • 'RSI and the Microsoft Judgment', CRA Annual Competition Conference, Brussels, 13 December 2007
  • 'Fidelity Rebates', and 'EC Abuse', Sedona Antitrust Conference, Arizona, 25-26 October 2007
  • 'Competition Law in Small Economies', Luxembourg, 18-19 October 2007
  • 'The Antitrust Marathon: A Search for Convergent Standards on Monopolization', Chicago, 5 October 2007
  • 'Trade, Competition and Multilateral Rulemaking: A Warping of the International Legal Order?', ESRC Centre for Competition Policy Summer Conference, Comparative Perspectives on Multi-Jurisdictional Antitrust Enforcement, 14-15 June 2007, University of East Anglia, Norwich
  • 'Exclusionary Abuses and "Competition on the Merits"', International Conference - The Reform of Greek Competition Law, National Bank of Greece, Athens, 1-2 June 2007
  • 'Competition Law and Policy and EPAs, Advocates for International Development, Economic Partnership Agreements: Questions & Answers Session with ACP Chief Negotiators', Advocates for International Development, London, 3 November 2006
  • 'Challenges and opportunities arising from the GATS Agreement for the People's Republic of China, sessions on National Treatment, Market Access and Restrictive Business Practices', MOFCOM training seminar, Beijing, China 18-20 September, 2006
  • 'Implementation of Competition Provisions in RTAs: Lessons from Bilateral and Regional Agreements', UNCTAD Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 31 July 2006
  • '"Consumer Detriment" and its Application in EC Competition Law', DG Sanco-Consumers International Competition Project, Second Regional Workshop, London, July 2006
  • 'Introduction to EC Competition Law', DG Sanco-Consumers International Competition Project, First Regional Workshop, London, March 2006
  • 'Building An Effective Competition Law Regime In Nigeria: Establishing A Local Context and Meeting International Standards', National Conference On Competition Law, International Law Institute and Lagos Business School, Nigeria, March 9-10th 2006
  • 'The Future of European Competition Policy', London School of Economics, London, 27 February, 2006
  • 'A Review of International Perspectives on Price Discrimination', ABA tele-conference, 27 February, 2006
  • 'WTO practice in a City and Boutique Firm', Inns of Court City Law School, London, January 2006
  • 'Controlling Business Practices of Dominant Firms - competing models: EU, US and WTO', London School of Economics, Modern Politics Programme for Kazakhstan Government, 14-25 November, 2005
  • 'Competition Provisions in Bilateral Trade Agreements', CEPR Conference, and Joint Working Group of the Trade and Competition Committees, OECD Paris, October 2005
  • 'Competition Provisions in Bilateral Trade Agreements', CEPR Conference, Brussels, April 2005
  • 'Telmex - A Little Competition Law Learning is a Dang'rous Thing', UNCTAD experts meeting, Geneva, 11 November, 2004
  • 'Trade and Competition: cutting through the rhetoric, Competition Policy, Competitiveness and Investment Conference', Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19-21 May, 2004
  • 'National Treatment and Market Access applying to the Review of State Toleration of Exclusionary Business Practices', BIICL WTO research seminar, 12 May, 2004
  • 'Cooperation within the European Competition Network', Competition Law Scholars Forum, Glasgow, 22 April, 2004
  • 'Competition Issues with an International Dimension: How to tackle (some of) them', INCSOC Conference, Geneva, 29 January, 2004
  • 'The (Im)propriety of Applying Pro-competitive Regulation to Private Barriers to Trade in Distribution Services', UNCTAD Expert Meeting on Market Entry Conditions Affecting Competitiveness and Exports of Goods and Services of Developing Countries: Large Distribution Networks, Geneva, 26 November 2003
  • 'Trade and competition remedies for exclusionary business practices, Centre for Competition and Regulation', University of East Anglia, Norwich, 18 November, 2003
  • 'Trade and Competition after Cancun', New York University School of Law, graduate studies workshop, New York, 22 October, 2003
  • 'Modernisation of EC Competition Law, International Chamber of Commerce (UK) Committee on Competition', London, 14 October, 2003
  • 'International Developments in Intellectual Property and Competition Policy', 'Trans-Atlantic Perspectives' conference, European Policy Centre, Brussels,12 June, 2003
  • 'The WTO Singapore Issues - prospects for Cancun', Federal Trust/London School of Economics conference, 11 June 2003
  • 'Pros and Cons of a Sectoral Approach without a Comprehensive Multilateral Competition Framework', International Conference on Competition for Countries in Transition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 5-6 June 2003 and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24-25 April, 2003
  • 'National Treatment and Competition Policy', WTO Secretariat, Geneva 1 April, 2003
  • 'Competition Rules - the Existing and the Extant', Practitioner Workshop, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, London, 25 March, 2003
  • 'Competition commitments at the WTO', The WTO's 'Singapore Issues': Prospects for Cancun - A Federal Trust Roundtable Dialogue, London School of Economics, 25 March, 2003
  • 'How will National Treatment and non-discrimination fit with competition policy?', Consumers' Association conference, London, 24 January 2003
  • 'Enhancing the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding, delivery and discussion of Federal Trust report', WTO, Geneva; DG-Trade, Brussels; Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 5-6 December 2002
  • 'GE/Honeywell - tensions and consensus?' Practitioner workshop, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, London, 26 February 2002
  • 'Trans-Atlantic Antitrust Cooperation', Competition Law visitor seminar, Oxford University, Faculty of Law, Oxford, 25 February, 2002
  • 'Dispute Settlement at the WTO', Linklaters client briefings, 2001
  • 'National Treatment, Market Access and the Control of Business Practices - the relevance of the EU model for the WTO (Kodak-Fuji and Keck and Mithouard)', British Institute conference on International Trade Law and the WTO, London 17 May 2001
  • 'Trade and Competition: Towards a Workable Agenda', Linklaters & Alliance/Cameron May/European Commission Conference, Brussels, 2 March 2001
  • 'WTO Competition Rules - Questionable Aspects of Pro-competitive Regulation', Law Society Solicitors' European Group, London, 14 November 2000
  • 'Chinese accession - ramifications for the WTO, China and its trading partners', Centre for European Policy Studies working group on the future of the WTO and the Millenium Round, Brussels, 12 October 2000
  • 'Innovative Trade Rules with Anti-competitive Effects?', International Bar Association, Annual Conference, Amsterdam, 21 September 2000
  • 'Trade and Competition', International Company Lawyers Conference, Berlin, 16 March 2000
  • 'The WTO - What can it do for you?', Linklaters Business Brief, 10 November 1999
  • 'Aspects of International Co-operation among Competition Authorities', International Chamber of Commerce, Stockholm, 21 October 1999
  • 'Should Domestic Competition Policy Decisions Be Judged by WTO "Market Access" Rules?', Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, 10 September 1999
  • 'The prospects for a global competition regime', 1998 Commonwealth Law conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 21 April 1998

Contact Dr Philip Marsden.