Category: In the Spotlight

• HKU Law Outstanding Early Career Visiting Fellowship Scheme

  11/06/2025

  A fully funded visiting fellowship opportunity offered by the HKU Law Faculty for talented scholars with the first 15 years of academic career!

• Academic and Judicial Experts Gather at Durham University to Discuss AI, Justice, and Human Rights

  02/06/2025

  Excerpt for the “Human Rights, Algorithmic Justice, and Global AI Policy” workshop held at Durham University, UK on May 15, 2025.

• Advance Your Career with HKU’s New Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Law

  13/01/2025

  This certificate is designed to equip law students with the tools and knowledge to excel in today’s rapidly evolving digital world.

• Bifan Zhao won the First Prize for excellent papers in the seminar “The Integration of Socialist Core Values into the Rule of Law”

  03/01/2025

  Analysis using NLP shed light on the implications and challenges of incorporating Socialist Core Values in legal reasoning.

• Reynold Cheng named 2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Honourable Mention)

  09/05/2024

  The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List recognises exceptional technical achievements, characterised by lasting contributions and profound impact across different domains of artificial intelligence.

• Advanced Master in Technology Governance (U. of Amsterdam)

  17/04/2024

  The University of Amsterdam Law School has launched a new Advanced Master in Technology Governance.

• Summer Course on Privacy Law & Policy (U. of Amsterdam)

  The Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam is launching the 11th edition of the Summer Course on Privacy Law & Policy from July 1 to 5, 2024.

• Prof. Reynold Cheng and his team was awarded at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023

  09/11/2023

  Prof. Reynold Cheng and the HKU STAR Lab Team has been awarded a Certificate of Merit in the Smart People (Smart Ageing) Category at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2023.

• Prof. Benjamin Kao interviewed on use of AI in social context

  06/09/2023

  Online interview on use of AI tools, their benefits and downsides.

• Article on AI-CLIC project published in AI & Law Journal

  06/07/2023

  “Bringing Legal Knowledge to the Public by Constructing a Legal Question Bank Using Large-scale Pre-trained Language Model”, Artificial Intelligence and Law (AI and Law) Journal, Springer Netherlands, Volume 31, Issue 2, p. 1-37, July 2023.

• Prof. Reynold Cheng, Deputy Director of the Law Tech Centre, is named one of the 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars (Honorable Mention)

  21/06/2023

  Prof. Reynold Cheng recognized as the 2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Honorable Mention) for his exceptional contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).

• HKLII Migration Notice

  19/06/2023

  “Free Access to Law Movement: HKLII 2023” campaign

• Highlights from the 2023 Platform Governance Research Network Conference

  13/06/2023

  Post-conference updates

• Interview by Hong Kong Economic Journal on AI-CLIC

  02/06/2023

  With links to news article and videos. Published on HKEJ on June 2, 2023. The article is written in Chinese.

• Ryan Whalen on ChatGPT (RTHK Radio 3 Backchat)

  12/04/2023

  Ryan Whalen, an expert on AI from the perspective of law and policy from HKU Law, joined the panel discussing the use ChatGPT at the university level on RTHK Radio 3’s Backchat programme on 30 March 2023.  HKU has adopted an initial policy barring students from using ChatGPT in submitted work without a […]

• Digital Sovereignty and the Normativity of Data Governance

  16/11/2022

  Marcelo Thompson, “Digital Sovereignty and the Normativity of Data Governance”, Global Governance for the Digital Ecosystems Report, Pascal Lamy and Bruno Liebhaberg et al., November 2022.

• Call for Abstracts – The Platform Governance Research Network Conference 2023

  25/10/2022

  The Platform Governance Research Network Conference 2023 is calling for abstract submission. Deadline to submit is end of day of December 18, 2022.

• Congratulations to Professor Haochen Sun

  01/08/2022

  Congratulations to Haochen Sun on his promotion to full professorship!

• NFT Risks: The Dangers of the Unknown (Part 2)

  14/07/2022

  Yu, Ronald & Chen, Fred, NFT Risks: The Dangers of the Unknown (Part 2), Regulatory Ramblings by the HKU FinTech – HKU-SCF FinTech Academy, Apple podcast, July 14, 2022.

• Prof. Anne Cheung and her team won HKU Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2022

  04/07/2022

  The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 to recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations.