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Professor LAI Sin Chit Martin
Background
SJD (University of Pennsylvania)
LLM (University of Pennsylvania)
JM (Tsinghua University)
MEcon (The University of Hong Kong)
BEcon & Fin (The University of Hong Kong)
Attorney and Counsellor at Law (New York State)
LLM (University of Pennsylvania)
JM (Tsinghua University)
MEcon (The University of Hong Kong)
BEcon & Fin (The University of Hong Kong)
Attorney and Counsellor at Law (New York State)
Position Tag
Assistant Professor
Position (Other)
Servicing Programme Director
Contact Information
Office
Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building – 6204
Telephone
(852) 3442 7398
Email
martin.lai@cityu.edu.hk
Research Interests
Research Interests
- Competition Law
- Law and Economics
- Comparative Law
Body
Dr. LAI Sin Chit Martin is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Martin specializes in Competition Law and Law & Economics, with a particular interest in enforcement-related issues. His research has appeared in respected journals such as the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, and Berkeley Business Law Journal.
Martin has received his Bachelor of Economics and Finance and Master of Economics from the University of Hong Kong, Juris Master from Tsinghua University, and Master in Law and Doctor of the Science of Law from the University of Pennsylvania. Martin also received some European Union competition law training from the University of Munich. His doctoral dissertation committee consists of Professors Jonathan Klick (Chair), Herbert Hovenkamp, and Christopher S. Yoo.
Publications
Book
- Competition Law in the United States (4th edition, Wolters Kluwer 2019) (assisted Howard Langer).
Journal Articles
- The Impact of Antitrust Enforcement on China's Digital Platforms: Evidence from SAMR v. Alibaba, International Review of Law & Economics (2025) (with Kenneth Khoo and Chuyue Tian).
- Leniency Experiments: An Evaluation of External Validity, 59 European Journal of Law and Economics (2025) (with Yui Law and Ning Liu).
- Legal Tests for Excessive Pricing and Their Implementation under China's Anti-Monopoly Law, 33 Asia Pacific Law Review (2025) (with Yihan Wang).
- The Tension between Public Interest Litigations and Private Actions Under China's Anti-Monopoly Law, 16 Tsinghua China Law Review 18 (2024) (with Jing Zhang) (won the Readers' Vote Prize in the Private Enforcement category of the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2025).
- Route Competition in Hong Kong's Aviation Industry, 89 Journal of Air Law and Commerce (2024) (with Yizhang Qiu) (one of the 10 academic articles nominated and shortlisted for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2024 in the Unilateral Conduct category).
- Constructing an Incentive Mechanism for Private Anti-Monopoly Litigation in China – An Empirical Analysis Based on 636 Cases, 18 Journal of CUPL 195 (2024) (with Ya Zhang in Chinese) (selected for reprint in the Renmin University of China's periodical China Social Science Excellence ? Procedural Law and Judicial Systems [中國人民大學的《復印報刊資料 ? 訴訟法學、司法制度》] in 2024, issue 10).
- Identity Disclosure of Leniency Recipients in Hong Kong, 53 Hong Kong Law Journal 233 (2023) (with Zhaoda Kui).
- Antitrust Rights of Action and Leniency Programs, 32 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 151 (2023).
- Output Effect of Private Antitrust Enforcement, 27 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law 477 (2022).
- The Infringement Notice System Under Hong Kong’s Competition Law: Using the EU as a Benchmark, 40 Journal of Law & Commerce 127 (2022).
- Incentivizing Private Antitrust Enforcement to Promote Leniency Applications: A Case Study of the United Kingdom, 38 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 247 (2022) (one of the 10 academic articles nominated and shortlisted for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2023 in the Private Enforcement category).
- Incentivizing Private Antitrust Enforcement to Promote Leniency Applications, 17 Journal of Competition Law & Economics 728 (2021) (awarded the Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty).
- Enabling and Incentivizing Standalone Private Antitrust Actions in Hong Kong – Lessons from the United States, 16 Berkeley Business Law Journal 463 (2019).
- Defining and Regulating Hard Core Cartels in Hong Kong: Agency Reconciling the Divergence between Legislators and International Standard, 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 933 (2018) (one of the 8 academic articles nominated and shortlisted for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2019 in the Asian Antitrust category).
- Analyzing China Guiding Case No. 79 under Section 1 of Sherman Act in the U.S. – A Per Se Tying Violation or Not?, 39 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law Online (2018) (one of the 12 business articles nominated and shortlisted for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2019 in the Asian Antitrust category).
- Bid Rigging, a Faintly Discernible Enumeration under Article 13 of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China, 12 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review 244 (2016).
Book Chapter
- ‘Competition Law in Hong Kong’, in Sarah Biddulph & Kathryn Taylor (eds.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Asian Law (Edward Elgar Publishing) (forthcoming 2025).
Book Review
- Hong Kong Competition Law – Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives by Thomas K. Cheng & Kelvin Hiu Fai Kwok, 52 Hong Kong Law Journal (2022).
Grants
- Early Career Scheme (2023 -2025), HK University Grants Committee, Amount: HK$603,000 (PI) (collaborate with Ning LIU)
- Centre for Public Affairs and Law Grant (2021-2023), CityU, Amount: HK$250,000 (Co-PI) (with June WANG & Ning LIU)
- CityU Start-Up Grant (2021 -2023), CityU, Amount: HK$300,000 (PI)