The Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at CUHK LAW held the 5th Machine Lawyering Conference on 29-30 May 2025. Esteemed scholars and practitioners from 15 institutions in 12 jurisdictions presented 24 papers, featuring pressing issues surrounding international technological competition, decentralized autonomous organization, brain-computer interface, innovation and creativity enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), AI-powered banking supervision, cryptocurrencies, AI-induced hallucinations, digital competition policy, and digital criminal justice.. These 24 papers were selected from more than 70 submissions through anonymous peer review by the conference organizing committee, consisting of Professors Kevin Cheng, Sandra Marco Colino, Stuart Hargreaves, Robin Huang, Uta Kohl, Jyh-An Lee (chair), Eliza Mik, Normann Witzleb. Other speakers and moderators from the Faculty included Professors Dicky Tsang, Jingyi Wang, Yueming Yan, Siyi Lin and Misters Paul Schmidt and Hans-Guenther Herrmann.

As part of the anonymous peer review process, the conference organizing committee selected three best submissions for the Best Paper Awards and three high-quality papers for Honorable Mentions from the pool of accepted papers.

Best Paper Award:

• Prof. Kasim BALARABE – Professor and Associate Dean, Jindal Global Law School, Neuro-Legal Interfaces: Exploring the Convergence of Neurotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law
• Prof. Lin William CONG – Rudd Family Professor of Management & Professor of Finance, Cornell University; Ms. Yu YAN, PhD Candidate in Finance, National University of Singapore; Prof. Roni, Michaely, Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Prof., Daniel, Rabetti, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations
• Prof. Joel SLAWOTSKY – Professor, Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University, New Frontier Technologies, Competition Law, and National Security in the Era of Strategic Rivalry

Honorable Mention:

• Prof. Michael GOODYEAR – Acting Assistant Professor, New York University School of Law, Artificial Infringement  
• Mr. Sunny Xiyuan LI – PhD Candidate, CUHK LAW, Privacy Protection of E-CNY in the Context of Cross-border
• Mr. Jiawei ZHANG – PhD Candidate, Technical University of Munich School of Social Sciences and Technology; Ms. Shuang Liu, Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science. MCIT, University of Pennsylvania; LL.M., U.C. Berkeley School of Law, From Deepfake 1.0 to 2.0: How Deepfake Ruins Inter-Informational Competitive Order, and How Can We Rebuild It?

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