E-NEWSLETTER April 2020 Dear all,
These past months have been rather difficult as Hong Kong and the world are trying to overcome the COVID-19 situation. I strongly believe that we will be able to cope with the ‘new normal’ if we remain positive and keep moving forward together. In this regard, I wish to extend my sincere gratitude to all CUHK LAW colleagues, students and alumni as well as to all our other friends for the tremendous support granted to us during these challenging times.
I am very happy to present to you the latest CUHK LAW e-Newsletter. The CUHK LAW e-Newsletter reports on our efforts to move research and teaching excellence to even greater heights, the initiatives and the success of our students, staff movements, past and future events as well as anything else that is important to us. I hope you will enjoy the reading.
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Best wishes,
LUTZ-CHRISTIAN WOLFF Dean of the Faculty of Law & Wei Lun Professor of Law
Law & Technology will continue to be one of the dominating legal themes in the future. Teaching and research at CUHK LAW give significant attention to this area. Led by its Centre for Financial Regulation and Development (CFRED), our Law & Technology research focuses on FinTech, RegTech and LawTech. The Machine Lawyering Blog created by CFRED has gathered leading interdisciplinary commentary and featured over 300 authors’ work on the latest developments in Law & Technology. Legal technologies are playing an increasingly important role also in the day-to-day life of lawyers. To prepare CUHK LAW students for their professional careers CUHK LAW will offer courses on Legal Technologies to LLB, JD and LLM students starting from the academic year 2020-21. CUHK LAW Wins the 17th Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot, one of the largest international arbitration mooting competitions in the world. Held online for the first time from 22-29 March 2020, 71 schools from 21 jurisdictions in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America participated in the competition, including top law school students from Harvard University, University College London, University of Basel and Tsinghua University. In addition to the championship, CUHK LAW team member FAN Yin Cheung Kasper was awarded an Honourable Mention for his advocacy.
The Conference on Machine Lawyering: Digitally Reconceiving Contracting, Regulation and Property held by CUHK LAW on 16-18 January 2020 brought together a diverse group of academics and practitioners from 13 different jurisdictions in Asia, Europe and the United States to discuss various legal issues associated with the use of data and new technologies in commerce. Topics such as emerging alternative finance, competition law in the big data industries, legal policy on use of artificial intelligence, regulation of new payment systems (P2P, stored value, mobile payment, non-bank systems), the collection, processing and protection of personal data and data analytics in finance were debated during the event.
The inaugural Female Legal Leaders Seminar held by CUHK LAW in November 2019 featured three distinguished speakers, i.e. the Honourable Mrs. Justice Audrey CAMPBELL-MOFFAT, Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong, Ms. Emma DAVIES, Partner at Clifford Chance and Ms. Anna WU Hung-yuk, Chair of the Competition Commission of Hong Kong. The speakers shared their professional and personal experience working in the legal industry with a special focus on gender issues.
Related topic >> “Reflection on the First Female Legal Leaders Seminar: How Is Moving to an Inclusive Workplace Possible?” by Jenna Chow, Hong Kong Student Law Gazette (pp. 18-19, Issue 15, Winter 2019) The next Female Legal Leaders Seminar will be delivered online on 23 April 2020.
The Conference on Aviation Law and Policy in Asia held by CUHK LAW on 1-2 November 2019 was attended by academics, government officers, airline representatives, and aviation practitioners to address aviation law and policy issues in 15 different Asian jurisdictions. Participants discussed the contradictions arising out the growth of the aviation industry and the dual challenges of protectionism and infrastructure constraints in Asia. Various topics such as air transport liberalization, air operator certificate regulation, legal issues regarding pilot strikes, traffic rights allocation, new types of aircraft, the competitiveness of the Hong Kong International Airport, aircraft financing and big data in the aviation industry were actively discussed. The conference research papers will be published next year in “Aviation Law and Policy in Asia: Smart Regulation in Liberalized Markets” as part of Brill’s Asian Law Book series.
CUHK LAW offered two online Greater China Legal History Seminars in March and April 2020 which drew interest from over 1,600 registrants in total. Both seminars received CPD accreditation from the Hong Kong Law Society. The seminar “A Short Legal History of China’s Belt and Road Initiative” delivered by Professor Lutz-Christian WOLFF discussed the development of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the legal perspective. The seminar “Collectors and Collections of Chinese Art and Antiquities: Problems with Gifts, Trusts and Legacies” delivered by Professor Steven GALLAGHER explored the forming, maintaining and disposing of collections, in particular of Chinese art and antiquities from the legal point of view. The seminars kick-started a series of Faculty online CPD seminars organized for legal practitioners, CUHK LAW alumni, students and the general public. UPCOMING EVENTS CUHK LAW has established a new Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law (CCTL) to provide institutional support for collaborative comparative and transnational law research of Faculty members. Led by the Executive Director Professor Rehan ABEYRATNE, CCTL focuses on specific fields supported through various cluster groups covering e.g. comparative constitutional law, cross-border legal issues, transnational legal history, and the law of obligations. CUHK LAW offers the following new courses in the academic year 2020-21.
WELCOME ON BOARD Professor Mara MALAGODI is Assistant Professor at CUHK LAW. She is a comparative constitutional lawyer and socio-legal scholar with a linguistically-informed specialism in South Asian law and politics, human rights law, gender and law, legal history, and law and film. She is a non-practicing barrister in England and Wales, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Professor Malagodi’s research explores the history of constitutionalism in South Asia including for instance through pieces recently published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She teaches courses on Legal Research, Analysis and Writing and Research Methodologies and will teach the new course on “Law and Film” in the academic year 2020-21.
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