Rate My Professor Thomas Cheng

Professor Thomas Cheng is a Professor and Associate Dean (Teaching Management) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. His research specializations include competition law and policy, law and development, and law and innovation. Cheng has published extensively on competition law in developing countries and the competition regimes of Asian jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, China, and Japan. His work appears in prominent journals including the Chicago Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Virginia Law & Business Review, Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, and World Competition.

Key monographs include Competition Law in Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2020), the first comprehensive treatment of the subject; The Patent-Competition Interface in Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 2021); and Hong Kong Competition Law: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives, co-authored with Kelvin Kwok (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Selected articles encompass A Consumer Behavioral Approach to Resale Price Maintenance (Virginia Law & Business Review, 2017), Sherman vs. Goliath: Tackling the Conglomerate Dominance Problem in Emerging and Small Economies—Hong Kong as a Case Study (Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, 2017), and Algorithmic Predation and Exclusion, co-authored with Julian Nowag (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 2023). Cheng has received major awards, including the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award twice (2016 and 2017) and the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards 2023 for Best Academic Article in Unilateral Conduct. He was promoted to full Professor in 2022, served as Deputy Head of the Department of Law since 2014, and co-founded the Faculty's JD programme. Cheng advised the Hong Kong government during the drafting of its first competition law, was a member of the inaugural Competition Commission where he aided in staff recruitment and establishment, and holds positions on advisory and executive boards such as the American Antitrust Institute, Academic Society for Competition Law, and Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. He also serves on the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee and received the HKU Outstanding Researcher Award for 2023-24.