Valentine Korah

Margaret Valentine Latham Korah, commonly known as Val Korah (1928–2023), was an English legal academic. She was the emeritus Professor of Competition Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL).

Early life and education Korah was born in London and educated there at convent schools, although was evacuated to the countryside and during the wartime years. She read for an LLB (1949), LLM (1951) at UCL,

Academic career While she was called to the bar in 1954, which coincided with her promotion to Reader, led to her advising Parliamentary Counsel on the creation of the Commission of Industry and Manpower Bill and the Price Commission. She was promoted to Professor of Competition Law in 1982 under the deanship of Jeffrey Jowell. Important to this were her classes jointly taught with at the College of Europe, who later became a judge at the European Court of Justice. In the 1990s, particularly through the "new wave" block exemptions on vertical agreements and new guidelines on merger control and competition enforcement priorities, the European Commission's thinking began to shift towards the arguments of Korah and Joliet.

Korah formally retired from UCL in 1993, but continued to be active in teaching and research part-time for many years following her retirement.

Personal life Korah lived in Hampstead, and regularly swam in Hampstead Heath Ponds. Valentine Korah, An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice (9th edn, Hart Publishing 2007) Valentine Korah, ‘The Interface between Intellectual Property and Antitrust: The European Experience Symposium: The Federal Circuit and Antitrust’ (2001) 69 Antitrust LJ 801 Valentine Korah, ‘Concerted Practices’ (1973) 36 The Modern Law Review 220 Valentine Korah and Denis O’Sullivan, Distribution Agreements Under the EC Competition Rules (Bloomsbury Publishing 2002) Valentine Korah, ‘The Rise and Fall of Provisional Validity--The Need for a Rule of Reason in EEC Antitrust Antitrust’ (1981) 3 Nw J Int’l L & Bus 320.