March 2025
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Chinese Mooting Competition 2025 in HKU
HKU Alumni Day 2025
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Contesting Collateral Challenge: HKSAR v Chow Hang Tung (2024) 27 HKCFAR 71 (Trevor Wan)
Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Mobility (Sida Liu)
An Autonomy Theory of Consumer Protection Law (Kelvin Kwok)
Bigtechs and the Emergence of New Systemically Important Financial Institutions: Lessons from the Chinese Experience (Douglas W. Arner)
Event Highlights
PKU-HKU Annual Conference on Legal Studies 2024
Legal Imaginaries — A Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2024
Judge Peter Tomka, International Court of Justice Judge, inspires HKU Law during visit
Meet-the-Alumni Dinner
Updates
HKU Faculty of Law ranked by QS as World’s No. 15 in 2025
Better HKLII, Better Legal Research
Congratulations
Ms Ziying LIANG (PhD) awarded the HKU Foundation First Year Excellent PhD Award 2023/24
Meet Our New Staff
Professor David Winterton
Upcoming Events
AIIFL-Companies Registry Corporate Law and Governance Distinguished Lecture Series: Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet (Apr 1)
Advanced Seminar on Law and Technology: Large Language Models Are Unreliable Judges (Apr 2)
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Apr 3)
The Creditor Modified Duty in Hong Kong after Sequana and Foo (Apr 3)
Foreign Judgments and Their Impact on Arbitral Awards (Apr 7)
HKU Private Law and Theory Speaker Series: Three Dangerous Ideas in the Law on Liability for Omissions in Tort (Apr 8)
Strong Cause (Apr 8)
Taxation and Climate Change (Apr 9)
Medical Consent: Practical Implications for Hong Kong [CPD/CME] (Apr 9)
Methods Hub Workshop: A Cross-disciplinary Workshop to Address Loneliness as a Global Public Health Concern (Apr 10)
粵港澳大灣區爭議解決的融合、前景和挑戰 (4月11及12日)
Inclusive Insights: HKU Law Gender Equality Dialogue (Apr 14)
What Does it Mean to Know About Environmental Problems? Challenges for Public Law (and How to Respond) (Apr 15)
Determinants of Attorney Misconduct: A Study of California Lawyers (Apr 15)
A Dilemma for Interpretivist Theories of Tort Law (Apr 16)
Book Talk: Leftover Women in China (Apr 17)
Confucianism, Law, and Music in Tang China (Apr 25)
HKU Competition Law Lecture Series: Corporate Purpose, Competition Law, and the Regulation of Corporate Power (Apr 28)
Book Launch: Hong Kong Private International Law (Apr 29)
The 19th AIIFL Distinguished Public Lecture: The Singular Role of Public Pension Funds in Corporate Governance (May 2)
Intensive Course: An Introduction to the OECD Global Minimum Tax (Pillar 2) Taxation (Jun 20 - 22)
Trusts, Wealth Management and Philanthropy Conference 2025 (Jul 3 & 4)
[Call for Papers] 2025 Annual Conference of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) (Jul 7 & 8)
Legal Pathways to Sustainability Transition: Innovation and Resilience (Jul 31 & Aug 1)
Past Events
Reassessing the End of History: Directors' Duties & Shareholders' Rights in Comp Context (Feb 18)
What’s Wrong with President Yoon’s Self-Coup on 3 December 2024? (Feb 19)
法律的負空間視域下大模型版權侵權責任研究 (2⽉25⽇)
LawTech Ecosystem in Hong Kong: Introducing LegalAI Solutions (Mar 11)
AI for the (Empirical) Legal Scholar (Part 1) (Mar 17)
AI for the (Empirical) Legal Scholar (Part 2) (Mar 19)
The Next Phase of AI and Arbitration (Mar 20)
Opinions on Opinions: Legal Reasoning and Court Approval (Mar 21)
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