October 2025
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HKU Law Alumni Choir Concert 2025 "Celebrating Love"
Research & Knowledge Exchange
Which Political System Is Appropriate for China? An Exchange on Electoral Democracy and Political Meritocracy (Daniel Bell)
Oratorical leadership of chief justices in post-handover Hong Kong (Cora Chan, Julius Yam)
Stamp Duty in Hong Kong (1981–2024): The Evolution Waltz (Wilson Chow)
Liberalisation of Trust Laws in Hong Kong: Continued Growth or Concealed Wealth? (Rebecca Lee)
Digitalization and Tokenization of Money: Exploring Central Bank Digital Currency Theories and Retail CBDC Developments in China (Emily Lee)
Constraints in the Economic Analysis of Law in China (John Liu)
Reforming the Singapore Trust: Pushing or Breaking Boundaries? (Kelvin Low)
Conditional Discharge, Statutory Interpretation and the Mental Health Review Tribunal (Edward Lui)
In the Name of Public Interest: Challenging the Coroner’s Failure to Hold a Death Inquest in Hong Kong (Trevor Wan)
Mechanical Responsiveness: China’s Online Petition System (Yun Zhao)
Updates
HKU Law Outstanding Early Career Visiting Fellowship: Call for Applications
Event Highlights
From Protection to Utilization: The 2025 IP Utilization Forum successfully held at HKU
Upcoming Events
Economic Analysis of Trust Law (Nov 4)
“Belt & Road” Law Seminar: Legal and Regulatory Landscape for Businesses in Indonesia (Nov 4)
Generative AI under the New EU Product Liability Directive (Nov 5)
Online Admissions Talk for JD, LLM, & MCL Programmes (Nov 5)
Intensive Course: Taxation for a Sustainable Environment (Nov 7 - 9)
談法律專業人士的職業成長 (11月13日)
HKU-Boase Cohen & Collins Lecture Series in Criminal Law “Conspiracy to Defraud: Deceased or Only Wounded?” By Ian Winter KC (Nov 14)
從「基因聯繫」到「生育合意」的轉向—中國親子關係認定司法實踐的新趨勢 (11月20日)
The 8th Conference on International Coordination of Secured Transactions Reform (Nov 27 - 28)
The True Status of Corporate Directors and Officers – “Discretionaries” Not Fiduciaries (Dec 3)
2025 HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference (Dec 5 & 6)
Cooperation and The Retributive Sentiments (Dec 9)
Past Events
The Colombian Constitutional Court and fundamental rights: responsive decisions with transformative impact (Apr 25)
The Nature of Administrative Policies (Aug 6)
The Prosecution of Transgender as Heterodoxy in Qing Dynasty China (Sep 4)
Legal Development and Institutional Innovation of Local People’s Congresses in China (2012--present) (Sep 19)
Quantum International Law Theories: Towards an Inclusive International Investment-Security Construct (Sep 23)
Sentencing in Common Law Jurisdictions: Key Issues (Sep 25)
Equality’s Guardians (Oxford University Press 2025) (Sep 26)
Legal Research in the Era of Large Language Models (Oct 8)
Panel 1: 人工智能監管法哲學論壇 (21世紀新實在論與人工智能監管; 數字素養與人工智能監管的認識論問題) (10月9日)
Panel 2: 人工智能監管法哲學論壇 (AI的能與智「分合模式」及其法理; 生成式內容的透明度:如何區分人類與AI的創造力) (10月9日)
LLM as a Law Professor: Having a Large Language Model Write a Commentary on Freedom of Assembly (Oct 10)
Bargaining with Algorithms (Oct 13)
Institutional Theory for Corporate Law – An Invitation (Oct 23)
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