Date:Thursday, March 10, 2011
Time:12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Place: Room FLB, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
The purpose of this talk is to analyze the relevance
of the institutional forces shaping competition and intellectual property
policies in Latin America. Analysis of the “missing link” could provide
important hints about the reasons for slow legal change in the region, no
matter the efforts in the last two decades aimed at modernizing both
competition and IP policy enforcement. The talk will explore the current state
of development in IP protection, connections with competition policy as applied
in the region, and finally draw some conclusions about the relevance of
institutions in the future direction of both policies.
Ignacio De Leon is Managing Director and Partner of ECONLEX
CORPORATION, LLC, a Miami-based consulting firm, specializing in Private Sector
Development in emerging markets. He is an international expert in Latin
American antitrust and trade policy, intellectual property and investment
promotion. Currently, he advises the USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American
Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation on competition policy
and regulatory matters, and several governments in Latin America and Central
Asia. He is former Chairman of the Venezuelan Competition Authority,
Pro-Competencia. He received his Ph.D. in Law and Economics at University
College London (1999), Master of Economics from Universidad Francisco Marroquin
and Master of Laws from Queen Mary College, University of London. He is author
of An Institutional Analysis of Antitrust
Policy (Kluwer Law International, London, 2009) and Latin American Competition Law and Policy: A Policy in Search of
Identity (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2001). Currently, he is
member of the Editorial Board of World
Competition Law and Economics Review and other law journals specializing in
law and economics. He also regularly contributes to major publications specializing
in law and economics and gives public speeches on trade and competition policy,
infrastructure regulation and intellectual property.
A light lunch will be served.
For more information
and for a copy of the workshop paper, please contact n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
Sponsored by the Microsoft Law
and Information Society Project.
