Events

Up in the Cloud: Conference on Legal and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Summer Intensive Course: Management and Commercialisation of Intellectual Property The Third Asian Privacy Scholars Network Conference

News

Views of Law Tech Centre, HKU, on the Personal Data and Privacy Amendment Bill (2011)

http://www.law.hku.hk/lawtech/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/submission.pdf


Report of the Survey on Personal Data and Privacy Awareness in Hong Kong 2011

http://www.lawtech.hk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Survey-on-Privacy-Awareness-in-HK-HKU-2012.pdf

The Neutralization of Harmony: Whither the Good Information Environment

Marcelo Thompson has posted The Neutralization of Harmony: Whither the Good Information Environment (forthcoming in the Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2011) on SSRN as a Working Paper. The paper examines the idea of neutrality in technology law and politics — from the perspectives of both Liberalism and Confucianism.

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In Search of Alterity: On Google, Neutrality, and Otherness

Marcelo Thompson has posted In Search of Alterity: On Google, Neutrality, and Otherness (forthcoming in the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Vol. 14, 2011) on SSRN as a Working Paper. The paper inquires into the normative contours of Google’s activities, policy stances, and, more generally, of “search” itself.

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Recent Findings on Privacy Awareness and perception among Hong Kong Citizens

A study on privacy awareness and perception was carried out by the Law and Technology Centre, HKU and Policy 21 in 2011. Five hundred respondents were interviewed.  Preliminary findings can be viewed at here. The study is sponsored by Privacy International, UK.

Butterworths Hong Kong Patents Handbook, 2nd edition


Yahong Li has authored the 2010 Reissue of Butterworths Hong Kong Patents Handbook, 2nd edition, which was published by LexisNexis Butterworths in 2011. The book provides up-to-date annotations on Hong Kong Patent Ordinance, significant judicial decisions, and other authoritative materials which are invaluable to the academic research and legal practices on Hong Kong intellectual property law.

Behind the Great Firewall: A Study of Judges’ and Lawyers’ Blogs in China

Anne Cheung has published “Exercising Freedom of Speech behind the Great Firewall:A Study of Judges’ and Lawyers’ Blogs in China“ as a Special Feature in the Harvard Journal of International Law Online. The piece discusses how judges and public interest lawyers have, though their blogs, established a public sphere between the state and the people in Mainland China.

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