HKU Law e-Newsletter (October 2026)

October 2026

HKU Law Alumni Choir & Orchestra Concert 2026 "Be Our Guest"

HKU-Temple Chambers Law Lecture Series “The Role of Equity in the Law of Contract” by Lord Sales

Professor Michael Ng received the 10th Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) from the Ministry of Education of China

Research & Knowledge Exchange

Dispute Prevention through Community Engagement in Infrastructure Development in the Asia Pacific (Shahla Ali)

The Alignment Target Problem: Divergent Moral Judgments of Humans, AI Systems, and Their Designers (Benjamin Chen)

Upcoming Events

The Interaction of Technical Standards and Public Regulation: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (Nov 2)
With the author: Paul Craig, English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change (Oxford University Press 2024) (Nov 5)
Prohibition, Due Diligence and the Risk of Gaps: Regulating AI-based Online Violence (Nov 5)
Public Sector AI Procurement (Nov 6)
Comparative Assignment of Contractual Debts (Nov 9)
Some Realism about the Law and Judging (Nov 10)
Regulatory Innovation Along the Frontier: New Tools to Tackle Modern Global Problems (Nov 10)
With the author: Brian Leiter, From A Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press 2026) (Nov 11)
Copyright’s Expanding Negative Space in Fashion: Is Bigger Better? (Nov 18)
Cross-Border Commercial Legal Practice in Asia: An In-House Perspective (Nov 19)
Data Supply Chains (Nov 23)
Ecology and Wildlife Protection on Privately Managed Housing Estates in England (Nov 25)
Personalised Pricing and Human Agency (Nov 27)
Building Trustworthy Legal AI: From Task Automation to Reliable Reasoning (Nov 27)
Law and Remediation in the Aftermath of the Grenfell Tower Fire: A Private Law ‘Moment’ (Nov 30)
From Subjective Mistake to Objective Agreement: Rectification of Contractual Documents for Common Mistake (Dec 11)
Autonomous AI and the Permanent Establishment Threshold. When Does a System Create a Taxable Presence, and What Follows for Asia (Dec 16)
(Call for Papers) HKU-Cornell Asian Legal Studies Workshop 2026 (Dec 21 & 22)
11th International Bioethics, Multiculturalism and Religion Workshop and Symposium: Cross-cultural Perspectives on AI, Law and Health (Jan 5 - 7, 2027)
(Call for Papers) Law in the Interstices – Money: Private Law and Regulation (Jun 17 & 18, 2027)

Past Events

Should we Build Machines that can Suffer? (Oct 5)
"I Don't Want Your AI Slop, or Pink Slime Either": Market Substitution, Brown Shoe Submarkets, and the Fourth Fair Use Factor in the Age of Generative AI (Oct 9)
Bills of Lading in Commodity Trading, Especially High Sea Sales: A Comprehensive Discussion on Transfer of Rights & Fraud Risks (Oct 9)
Extraterritoriality without Colonisation: British Judges in the Supreme Court of Siam during the European Age of Empire (Oct 12)
Hong Kong’s New Land Title Registration Regime – Better late than never? (Oct 16)

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