Year: 2021

• Redesigning Intellectual Property Protection in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

  31/12/2021

  This symposium will be held via Zoom on January 26, 2022 from 10am – 1:10pm (HK Time).

• From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications

  09/12/2021

  Anne Cheung & Yongxi Chen, From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications, Law & Social Inquiry, Cambridge University Press, p. 1-35, 2021.

• Gauging the Undertone of the Legal Personhood of AI

  03/12/2021

  This seminar will be held online via Zoom on Thursday, December 30, 2021 from 1pm – 2pm.

• Sovereignty 2.0

  29/11/2021

  Chander, Anupam and Sun, Haochen, Sovereignty 2.0 (August 12, 2021). (2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2404, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2021/041, available at SSRN.

• Post-doctoral Fellow in Technology Law at the Law and Technology Centre

  28/10/2021

  The Centre is recruiting for a Post-doctoral Fellow in Technology Law. Application deadline is February 28, 2022.

• Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures

  20/10/2021

  Law Tech conference on Zoom on November 5 and 6, 2021 from 8am – 12:30pm (US Eastern Standard Time).

• Language

  21/09/2021

  Anne Cheung’s book chapter in Johannes Chan, SC and C.L. Lim, Law of the Hong Kong Constitution, 3rd Edition. Hong Kong, Sweet & Maxwell, 2021.

• Artificial Intelligence: Privacy and Ethics

  01/09/2021

  This seminar will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 1pm – 2pm.

• Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

  19/08/2021

  Douglas Clark’s co-authored a new book, Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

• Showcasing HKU AI Lawyer: Sentencing Predictor for Drug Trafficking at 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference – Hong Kong Forum

  12/07/2021

  The Centre was invited by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation to set up a booth to showcase “HKU AI Lawyer: Sentencing Predictor for Drug Trafficking” at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference – Hong Kong Forum.

• We, the Robots? Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law

  09/07/2021

  This seminar will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 from 1pm – 2pm.

• Doxing and the Challenge to Legal Regulation: When Personal Data Becomes a Weapon

  07/07/2021

  Prof. Anne Cheung’s book chapter in Bailey, Flynn & Henry (eds), Handbook on Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse: International Perspectives and Experiences, Emerald Publishing Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 577-594.

• Media Coverage of the Sentencing Predictor for Drug Trafficking

  02/07/2021

  Links to the media reports and interviews are included.

• The Ultimate Test of Fidelity: Judicial Responses to Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong and Taiwan

  01/07/2021

  Book chapter co-authored by Jimmy Hsu Chia-Shin and Anne Cheung Shann Yue, in Brian Christopher Jones, Democracy and Rule of Law in China’s Shadow, Hart Publishing, 2021, p. 33-64.

• Accountability in Algorithm-assisted Sanctions: Public Law Scrutiny of China’s Social Credit System

  24/06/2021

  Research project funded by General Research Fund (GRF), PI: Clement Chen.

• Patent Responsibility

  23/06/2021

  Haochen Sun, “Patent Responsibility,” 17 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 321 (2021).

• The Complexities of IP and NFTs

  Yu, Ronald, “The Complexities of IP and NFTs“, In-House Community Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2021.

• Integrating Domain Knowledge in AI-Assisted Criminal Sentencing of Drug Trafficking Cases

  09/06/2021

  Wu, Tien-Hsuan, Kao, Ben, Cheung, Anne S.Y., Cheung, Michael M.K., Chen, Wang, Chen, Yongxi, Yuan, Guowen & Cheng, Reynold, “Integrating Domain Knowledge in AI-Assisted Criminal Sentencing of Drug Trafficking Cases”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2020, vol. 334, p. 174 – 183.

• HKU Law and Technology Centre launches HKU AI Lawyer: Sentencing Predictor for Drug Trafficking

  21/05/2021

  HKU’s research team led by Prof. Ben Kao and Prof. Anne Cheung introduced HKU AI Lawyer – an AI-assisted sentencing predictor for the offence of trafficking in dangerous drugs in Hong Kong.

• New Changes, New Possibilities: China’s Latest Patent Law Amendments

  20/05/2021

  Yu, Ronald & Yip, Kenneth, “New Changes, New Possibilities: China’s Latest Patent Law Amendments“, GRUR International, Volume 70, Issue 5, May 2021, Pages 486–489.