August 2025
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HKU Law Alumni Return to Illuminate Pathways for the Next Generation of Legal Minds
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Deciding lawsuits outside of court: mediation in Hong Kong (Shahla Ali)
Centralization in Decentralized Finance: Systemic Risk in the Crypto Ecosystem and Crypto’s Future as a Regulated Industry (Douglas W Arner)
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese (Daniel Bell)
About the Patient Named Taiwan: The Rise of Doctors in Party Politics (Sida Liu)
Updates
HKU Law Outstanding Early Career Visiting Fellowship: Call for Applications
Congratulations
Professor Cora Chan’s book awarded Special Mention for ICON-S Book Prize
HKU Law students won the 2nd runner-up in FDI Moot Shenzhen 2025
7 HKU Law Student Finalists in Law Reform Essay Competition 2025
Meet Our New Staff
Ms Xin Fang
Upcoming Events
How Are Lawyers Agents of the Rule of Law? (Sep 1)
HKU-Temple Chambers Law Lecture “Injunctions – an expanding universe?” (Sep 2)
The Prosecution of Transgender as Heterodoxy in Qing Dynasty China (Sep 4)
Interactive Seminar - What Three Cases tell us about the Qing Judicial System (Sep 5)
War and Insurance (Sep 5)
The Will (Not) to Punish: How Chinese Judges Convict (Sep 8)
DVC-Oxford-Cambridge-HKU Lecture "Two Perspectives on Guest v Guest" (Sep 8)
Book Launch and Discussions: Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Sep 9)
LegalAI Research via a Technological Perspective (Sep 15)
Law and Politics of Religious Fraud Regulation: Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (Sep 18)
U.S. Personal Jurisdiction and Chinese Companies (Sep 23)
Purposive, Holistic & Contextual Interpretation (Sep 24)
Book Talk: “Equality’s Guardians: How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection and Non-discrimination Guarantees (Oxford University Press 2025)” (Sep 26)
Book Talk – ‘Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Chinese Identity’ (Sep 30)
Panel Discussion: Discretion in the Legal System (Oct 10)
HKU Law Alumni Choir Concert "Celebrating Love" (Oct 18)
Book Talk: “Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press 2025)” (Oct 30)
2025 HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference (Dec 5 & 6)
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