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Prof. Jyh-An LEE has published a co-edited book, Web3 Governance: Law and Policy (Routledge, 2025)

Prof. Jyh-An LEE’s co-edited book, Web3 Governance: Law and Policy, has been published by Routledge. This scholarly work is a product of the CUHK-UoM Research Fund, which seeks to deepen research collaboration between CUHK and the University of Manchester (UoM). In alignment with this goal, the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at CUHK LAW co-organized two conferences in partnership with the UoM Department of Law:

  1. Digital Platform Governance: Security, Scalability and Sustainability in Hong Kong (January 2023)
  2. Web3 Governance: Law and Policy in Manchester (July 2023)

This edited collection features a selection of papers from these conferences, primarily authored by colleagues from CUHK and UoM. Contributors from CUHK LAW include Professors Jyh-An LEE, Eliza MIK, Dicky King Fung TSANG, Jingyi WANG, Normann WITZLEB, and PhD alumni Ms. Songyin Bo and Ms. Jingwen Liu. The chapters they have enriched this volume with are as follows:

  • Songyin Bo, “Envisioning the Future of Online Dispute Resolution from the Case of China”
  • Joseph Lee and Jyh-An Lee, “Roadmap to Legal Implications of Web3: An Introduction”
  • Eliza Mik, “The Sense and Nonsense of Smart Contracts”
  • Neerav Srivastava and Normann Witzleb, “What’s the Gig? Tort Liability of Platforms for Physical User-to-User Harm”
  • Dicky King Fung Tsang, “Rethinking Jurisdiction of Online Defamation”
  • Jingyi Wang, “Taxation of Cryptoassets and Web 3.0”
  • Runhua Wang, Jyh-An Lee, and Jingwen Liu, “Deciphering the Legal Enigma of NFTs”

For details of the book, please click here.

Posted on 26 February, 2025