Christophe Collard is a professor of law at EDHEC Business School, Lille, and a member of the Legal EDHEC Research Centre. Christophe Collard manages the Legal & Tax Major programme (specialisation in Business Law) at EDHEC Business School. He teaches antitrust law, contract law and legal management, delivering courses to a wide range of publics. He has genuine experience of teaching in foreign countries (especially in Poland and Algeria). He maintains an active research agenda in the areas of competition law and legal management and strategies. He has presented numerous papers at French and international conferences and his research has appeared in a variety of academic and professional journals. He is the co-author of one of the best selling business law handbooks in France (Droit de l’entreprise, Lamy). He has also garnered several awards for excellence in writing and teaching. In 2000, a major French weekly magazine (L’Expansion) which established the list of the core faculty members of a future European e university selected Christophe Collard as the law professor of this virtual dream-team.
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The ruling issued by the commercial division of the French Court of Cassation on June 11, 2013, puts an end to a veritable saga, a highly disputed legal battle that opposed for more than 15 years the National Competition Authority (NCA) to luxury perfumers (Chanel, Christian Dior, Hermès, (...)
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The French mass retail group "Centres E. Leclerc", which remains a cooperative, is well-known for having continuously tried to make more concrete and visible its strategic goal ("To sell at the best price, the largest set of products and services, to make them accessible to as many as (...)
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1. Summary Mylan, the generic pharmaceutical company (formerly Merck Génériques), was ordered by the Paris Court of Appeal to pay €17 million in damages to Ipsen for unfair competitive practices and economic parasitism by marketing Vitalogink to pharmacists as an "equivalent" to Tanakan and (...)
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The launching, in May 2006, of a price comparison website suggestively named “www.quiestlemoinscher.com” (www.who-is-the-cheapest.com) by the large-scale retail group E. Leclerc marked a significant development in the price war opposing major French large-scale retail groups. This price war (...)
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Is eBay primarily and/or jointly liable for trademark infringements committed by some of its users selling counterfeit items through the auction website ? Does the online auctioneer itself commit infringements by using luxury brands as advertising keywords, in order to promote its online (...)
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In a lawsuit brought by the famous jewellery maker Tiffany & Co. , the US District Court of New York (Southern District, Manhattan) ruled on 14 July 2008 that eBay is not required to make greater effort for policing its site for counterfeit items, the primary burden for protecting a brand (...)
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Le risque de non-conformité aux règles de concurrence est perçu comme un risque juridique majeur, spécialement par les entreprises multinationales de première importance. En réaction à cette menace, des programmes de conformité antitrust sont mis en place, qui font l’objet d’une attention (...)
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La définition d’un délai de préavis est au c ?ur de l’analyse fondée sur l’article L. 442-6, I, 5° du Code de commerce relatif à la rupture brutale de relations commerciales établies. Pour réduire l’incertitude liée à une telle détermination, constitutive d’un risque juridique, notre étude se (...)
