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Insolvency Law and Emerging Technologies
Insolvency Law and Emerging Technologies Date/Time: August 2, 2026 (Sunday), 2pm – 7pm Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng…
Date: August 2, 2026 (Sunday)
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Law Tech Talks
William Hubbard (U of Chicago), Daniel Seng (NUS Law), Jakob Merane (ETH Zurich), Benjamin Chen (HKU Law)
AI In Legal Education
Speaker: William Hubbard (Deputy Dean, Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics, The University of Chicago) Abstract: Much…
Date: July 15, 2026 (Wednesday)
Venue: Room 824, 8/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Law Tech Talks
Daniel Seng (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore)
We Spy with Your Little Eyes: The Privacy Risks with Eye-Gaze Data and AI
This paper investigates the privacy risks of eye-tracking technology in modern devices like the Apple Vision Pro and VR headsets….
Date: July 14, 2026 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room 824, 8/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Law Tech Talks
Jakob Merane (Senior Research Associate, ETH Center for Law & Economics)
When Bots Enforce The Law
Artificial intelligence and big data have made near-total surveillance and rule enforcement technically and economically feasible, unsettling generations of legal…
Date: July 13, 2026 (Monday)
Venue: Room 901, 9/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Past Events
Event Series
Law Tech Talks
Ryan Copus (Associate Professor of Law University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)
Computational Clinical Judgment: Predicting Risk with Large Language Models
Law Tech Talks
Siddharth de Souza (Assistant Professor in AI & Society at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)
A Data Justice Perspective of Global Data Law
Law Tech Talks
Siddharth de Souza (Assistant Professor in AI & Society at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick)
Digital Rule of Law
Law Tech Talks
Piotr Bystranowski (Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
‘Text’ and Textualism: A Computational Reading of U.S. Federal Caselaw
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Aziz Huq (Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, The University of Chicago)
Preemption and New General Purpose Technologies
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Aileen Nielsen (Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard University)
Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Legal LLM Evaluation
Law Tech Talks
Piotr Staszczyk (Référendaire (Legal Clerk) Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg)
Law in the Digital Age: The EU’s Approach to Regulating AI and Online Platforms
Law Tech Talks
Bertram F. Malle (Professor, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences (CoPsy) Department Brown University)
What is Morality?
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Bertram F. Malle (Professor, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences (CoPsy) Department Brown University)
How Can Machines “Align” With Humans? Psychological, Technical, and Legal Prospects
Law Tech Talks
Piotr Staszczyk (Référendaire (Legal Clerk) Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg)
Mini-course: EU Technology Law in Practice: The AI Act, DSA, and DMA
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Yoan Hermstrüwer (Associate Professor of Legal Tech, Law and Economics and Public Law, University of Zurich)
Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap
Law Tech Talks
Yoan Hermstrüwer (Associate Professor of Legal Tech, Law and Economics and Public Law University of Zurich)
The Judicial Mind of Large Language Models
Law Tech Talks
Hai Jin Park (Professor & Director, Center for AI and Law, Hanyang University Law School)
Mediating under the Shadow of AI
Law Tech Talks
Isak Ladegaard (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong)
Contentious Platforms
Law Tech Talks
Jinzhe Tan (PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal)
Enhancing Judicial Autonomy Using Artificial Intelligence
Law Tech Talks
Gilad Abiri (Associate Professor & Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation, Peking University School of Transnational Law)
Regulating for AI Legitimacy
Conferences
Symposium on Interpretability of AI-Generated Content Copyright Infringement
Law Tech Talks
Yu Fan (PhD Candidate, Center for Law and Economics, ETH Zurich)
LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Joanna Bryson (Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School)
The Legitimate Location, Extent, and Nature of Artificial Agency within Human Hierarchies
Law Tech Talks
Christopher Kutz (C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law)
Publics in Action: How to Organize Our Collective Life
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Christopher Kutz (C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law)
Intelligence, Reason, and Responsibility: Natural and Artificial
Law Tech Talks
Clemens Danda (Robotics & AI Law Society)
Generative AI under the New EU Product Liability Directive
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Sangchul Park (Associate Professor, Seoul National University School of Law)
Leveraging LLM Embeddings in Legal Analysis
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Haggai Porat (Law and Economics Fellow, New York University School of Law)
Bargaining with Algorithms: An Experiment on Algorithmic Price Discrimination and Consumer and Data Protection Laws
Law Tech Talks
Chien-Yi Chang
Toward Equitable and Sustainable Data Handling in AI and Biomedical Research
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Christoph Engel (Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
LLM as a Law Professor: Having a Large Language Model Write a Commentary on Freedom of Assembly
Law Tech Talks
Christoph Engel (Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
Legal Research in the Era of Large Language Models
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Yiquan Wu (ZJU-100 Young Professor, Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School)
LegalAI Research via a Technological Perspective
Law Tech Talks
Peicheng Wu (Zhejiang University 100 Young Professor, Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School)
Can the TRIPS Agreement Apply to SEP Issues? A Critical Analysis of Global Royalties of SEPs under TRIPS
Law Tech Talks
Daniel Seng (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore)
Applying the Traditional Rules of Evidence in the Age of AI
Law Tech Talks
Peter Lee (Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law & Director, Center for Innovation, Law, and Society, University of California, Davis)
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI
Conferences
Benjamin Chen (HKU), Zhiyu Li (Durham University, UK) and others
Human Rights, Algorithmic Justice, and Global AI Policy
Law Tech Talks
Zhenbin Zuo (Lecturer, University of Essex School of Law)
Automated Law Enforcement: An Assessment of China's Social Credit System (SCS) Using Interview Evidence from Shanghai
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Alexander Stremitzer (Professor of Law, Economics, and Business, ETH Zurich)
Automated Private Enforcement: Evidence from the Google Fonts Case
Law Tech Talks
Albert Yoon (University of Toronto), Sida Liu (HKU Law), Norman Hui (HKU Law), Benjamin Chen (HKU Law)
Ethical AI and the Future of Legal Practice
Law Tech Talks
Albert Yoon (Professor and Michael J. Trebilcock Chair in Law and Economics, University of Toronto Faculty of Law)
Determinants of Attorney Misconduct: A Study of California Lawyers
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Renjun Bian (Assistant Professor, Peking University School of Law)
Recognizable Human Input, Copyrightable AIGC
Law Tech Talks
Jonathan Choi (Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law), Cindy Li (Legal Counsel at Futu Holdings, Hong Kong)
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Jonathan Choi (Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law)
Large Language Models Are Unreliable Judges
Law Tech Talks
Gerd Muehlheusser (Professor of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Hamburg)
Platform Liability, Product Safety and Optimal Pricing
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Aniket Kesari (Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law)
Opinions on Opinions: Legal Reasoning and Court Approval
Law Tech Talks
Anthony Casey (Donald M. Ephraim Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School)
The Next Phase of AI and Arbitration
Law Tech Talks
Arna Wömmel (Ph.D. candidate in Economics, University of Hamburg)
Algorithmic Fairness: The Role of Beliefs
Law and Technology Workshops
Aniket Kesari (Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law)
Law and Technology Workshops: AI for the (Empirical) Legal Scholar
Law Tech Talks
Ron Yu (Director, Makebell Ltd) and Brian Tang (HKU Law)
Lawtech Startup Ecosystem in Hong Kong – Introducing LegalAI Solutions
Law Tech Talks
Arna Wömmel (Ph.D. candidate in Economics, University of Hamburg)
Law and Technology Mini-course: Behavioral Law and Economics
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Anthony Niblett (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Economics, & Innovation, University of Toronto Faculty of Law)
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Algorithm
Law Tech Talks
徐璐博士 (中山大學法學院博士後研究員) Dr. Xu Lu (Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Law, Sun Yat-sen University)
法律的負空間視域下大模型版權侵權責任研究 Exploring Copyright Infringement Liability of Large AI Models Through the Lens of the Legal Negative Space
Law Tech Talks
Nina Baranowska (Postdoctoral Researcher, iHub: Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Digitalization and Society, Radboud University)
Fairness and Non-Discrimination in Algorithmic Hiring: Challenges and Solutions
Advanced Seminars on Law and Technology
Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Law & Philosophy Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law)
AI Decisions Are Sound, Nothing but Sound
Law Tech Talks
Christophe Gösken (PhD Candidate, Center for Law & Economics ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Rethinking Trademark Law: How Consumer Protections, Sustainability Goals, and New Technologies Could Shape Its Normative Foundations
Law and Technology Workshops
Yong-Sheng Soh (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore)
Law and Technology Workshops: Machine Learning
Law Tech Talks
Jiawei Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate & Research Fellow, Technical University of Munich)
China's Zero-risk Approach to Generative AI Governance?
Law Tech Talks
Barbara Lauriat (Associate Professor of Law & Dean's Scholar in Intellectual Property, Texas Tech University School of Law)
The History of Goodwill as Intangible Property
Law Tech Talks
Jonathan Choi (Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law)
Measuring Clarity in Legal Text
Law Tech Talks
Kung-Chung Liu (Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University)
Criminal Enforcement of IP in Asia: Asian vis-à-vis Western Approach
Law Tech Talks
Eliza Mik (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Why Should Contracts be Smart?
Law Tech Talks
Albert Yuen (Linklaters), Carl Li (Linklaters), Yang Fan (Ant Group)
Careers in Law and Technology
Law Tech Talks
Sayash Kapoor (Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University)
Promises and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence for Legal Applications
Law Tech Talks
Christophe Gösken (PhD Candidate, Center for Law & Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Culture: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Konrad Borowicz (Assistant Professor, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, Tilburg University)
Open Finance, Artificial Intelligence and Data Quality
Law Tech Talks
Yan Mei Ning (Visiting Scholar, Philip K. H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong)
Tackling Cyberbullying – China's Law and Policy Initiatives in Recent Years
Law Tech Talks
Kung-Chung Liu (Professor of Law, Singapore Management University)
Balancing The Interests of Brand Owners And Secondhand Markets of Branded Goods
Law Tech Talks
Miki Tanikawa (Associate Professor & Head of Program, Global Communication, Practices, Akita International University)
The "Triadic Model" of Free Speech and the Diminishing Influences of the 4th Estate
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Han-Wei Liu (Associate Professor, Singapore Management University School of Law)
Regulating Discourse: Is International Trade Law the Right Avenue for Content Governance?
Conferences
Larry Catá Backer, Albert Chen, Richard Cullen, Han Zhu, Macelo Thompson, Winnie Yeung, Angela Zhang, Mark Parsons, Calvin Ho, Marianne von Blomberg, Gabriela Kennedy
Technological Platforms and National Security in Hong Kong: The Domain of Standards Setting
Conferences
Stuart Hargreaves, Ryan Whalen, John Liu, Kelvin Kwok, Brian Tang, Stephanie Biedermann
ChatGPT and Legal Education
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Boris Babic (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto)
How (Not) to Open Up the AI Black Box
Law Tech Talks
Ryan Whalen (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong)
Generative AI & the Law – C3PO or Robocop with a Law Degree?
Law Tech Talks
Bulelani Jili (Meta Research PhD Fellow, Harvard University; Visiting Fellow, Law and Technology Centre, HKU Faculty of Law)
A Technological Fix: The Adoption of Chinese Digital Surveillance Products in Africa
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Damian Clifford (Senior Lecturer, Australian National University College of Law)
Data Protection and (In)accuracy – Emotional AI as a Case Study
Conferences
Pamela Samuelson, Haochen Sun, Christopher Yoo, Woodrow Hartzog, Anupam Chander, Lyria Bennett Moses, Xiaodong Ding, Erik Shaddock
Regulating Social Media Algorithms
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Xiaowei Yu (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Law and Technology Centre, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong)
The Unstable Gatekeeper to Data Privacy: The Identifiability Problem in Transnational Privacy Regulations
Law Tech Talks
Dr. Yueh-Hsuan Weng (Assistant Professor, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Japan)
Data Governance for Social Robots: How to Design the Informed Consent in HRI from a Regulatory Perspective
Law Tech Talks
Norman Hui (Principal Lecturer, Department of Professional Legal Education, HKU; Barrister of the High Court of the HKSAR)
Enforcement of Intellectual Property and Related Rights from Internet-based Platforms
Law Tech Talks
Hin-Yan Liu (Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law)