September 2026
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Symposium “Shaping the Common Law”
Clash or Merger of ‘Two Systems’ in ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Common Law and Civil Law by Mr Ronny Tong Ka-Wah, QC, SC, GBS, JP
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority (Valeria Vázquez Guevara)
Wilkinson's Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong Desk Edition 2026 (Gary Meggitt)
Updates
Law Lectures for Practitioners 2026
HKU Law Welcome Fest 2026
Meet Our New Staff
Professor Yu Fan
Upcoming Events
HKU Law Alumni Choir & Orchestra Concert 2026 "Be Our Guest" (Oct 4)
Should we Build Machines that can Suffer? (Oct 5)
Same-sex Unions in Hong Kong: Issues and Prospects (Oct 7)
Bills of Lading in Commodity Trading, Especially High Sea Sales: A Comprehensive Discussion on Transfer of Rights & Fraud Risks (Oct 9)
Guidance and the Rule of Law (Oct 9)
"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)
Who is a lawyer? Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys, Ayinde v Haringey LBC and more beside (Oct 12)
Extraterritoriality without Colonisation: British Judges in the Supreme Court of Siam during the European Age of Empire (Oct 12)
International Investment Law and Procedural Fairness in Cross Border Arbitration (Oct 15)
Joint Seminar on Tort Law (Oct 20)
History in the Making - Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Affective economies and Litigation in the Early Modern Iberian Empire (Oct 21)
Extending the ‘Withering Rights’ Thesis: Settlor Reserved Powers and Limited Judicial Review (Oct 26)
Common Law, Unfamiliar Settings: Hong Kong, the UAE and Establishing Legal Trust in Financial Centres (Oct 26)
The Plagiarism Machine: Scholarly Reading and Writing in the Age of LLMs (Oct 27)
What a Thesis is for: Reading, Writing and Thinking in the Slop-Verse (Oct 29)
Auditors & Professionals as Gatekeepers: Risk, Reward and Ruin (Oct 30)
Copyright’s Expanding Negative Space in Fashion: Is Bigger Better? (Nov 18)
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)
Peter Willoughby Memorial Lecture: 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)
Past Events
Medical Consent: Practical Implications for Hong Kong (Apr 9, 2025)
Possession, Title, and Ownership in an Age of Intangibles (Aug 28)
Tax Controversies at the Intersection of the Key Mega Trends: Digitalization and Energy Transition (Sep 3)
Can We Hear Another World Breathing from Within the Law School Classroom? (Sep 3)
Book Launch: Issues in the Law of Rescission (Sep 7)
The Parable and Allegory – Manifesting the Humanities in Law through Theatrical Jurisprudence (Sep 14)
Judging by Algorithm: Socialist Core Values and China's "Trustworthy" Judicial AI (Sep 23)
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