Speakers

Yuanshi Bu is Professor of Law (Chair for East Asian Business Law) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Professor Bu’s research focuses on German and Chinese civil and economic law, international investment law, intellectual property law and technology transfer in East Asia. Prof. Bu holds a bachelor degree in German language and literature studies and computer sciences from the Tongji University in Shanghai, a master degree from the German-Chinese Institute of Economic Law of Nanjing University, a master degree from the University of Göttingen, a LLM from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Roland von Büren from the Institute of Economic Law of the University of Bern.

Mingyu Cao is a teacher at the Law School of West Anhui University. She obtained her master’s degree in law from the School of Law at Anhui University in China in 2022. Her master’s research area is labour and social security law, and her master’s thesis is a study on improving the system of workers’ holiday entitlement in China. Her research interests lie in natural people’s civil rights.

LL.B. (Coimbra, Portugal); Ph.D in Law (Tilburg, Netherlands); ECPC-B DPO Cert. (Maastricht, Netherlands). Assistant Professor, Lusofona University, Porto, Portugal. Former Senior Legal Advisor to the Macao SAR Government (GRJ, DSRJDI, DSAJ) and Lecturer at the Macao Legal and Judicial Training Centre (CFJJ).

Le CHENG is Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University, and Guanghua Distinguished Professor of Law at Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang Law School. He acts as Executive Dean of Zhejiang University’s Academy of International Strategy and Law, and Executive Dean of Institute of International Cyberspace Governance. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Legal Discourse (De Gruyter Mouton), and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Digital Law and Governance (De Gruyter Mouton). His research interests and publications are in the fields of international law, digital law, civil and commercial law, cyber studies, legal discourse, semiotics, data science, and terminology. Among others, he has edited book series on international heritage law, and international cyber law.

Brendan Clift is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School (MLS), the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD at MLS and master’s degrees in law and journalism from the University of Hong Kong and an arts/law double degree from Macquarie University. He is admitted to legal practice in New South Wales and worked around the Asia-Pacific region in law, legal publishing
and the media prior to joining academia.

Bui Tien Dat holds a position of Associate Professor and senior lecturer at the University School, Vietnam National University Hanoi, and also an ISEF research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies, Yonsei University, South Korea. He serves a managing editor of the VNU Journal of Science: Legal Studies, one of prestigious Vietnamese law journals. He has been the principal investigator of two NAFOSTED national research grants: ‘The “due process of law” principle and its role for the protection of human rights in Vietnam’ and ‘Proposing a model for the effect of constitutional rights in private law’.

He completed a PhD thesis at the Law School, Macquarie University, Australia in 2017. In 2016, he won a Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Grant to attend a visiting research programme at the Norwegian Centre of Human Rights, University of Oslo. His major research interests include Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights Law and Criminal Justice. Recently he published five articles in internationally-recognised WoS/Scopus journals (Commonwealth Law Bulletin, New Criminal Law Review, Criminal Law and Philosophy, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law).

Do Giang Nam is a Vice Dean of the Civil Law Faculty, University of Law, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. He graduated from Viet Nam National University as a Valedictorian for undergraduate class of 2005-2009. He continued his LLM in Comparative Law in SMU Dedman School of Law, the USA in 2012 before earning his PhD degree at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2017. His research interests include tort law, contract law, property law, comparative law, consumer protection law and legal education.

Professor Stephen Hall joined Faculty of Law, CUHK as a foundation member in 2005, after serving as an Associate Professor in the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong for three years. He was foundation director of the first Juris Doctor (JD) programmes in Hong Kong, at both City University of Hong Kong and CUHK. Professor Hall is a fellow of C. W. Chu College at CUHK where he also teaches a class on the origins of Western civilisation. Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was also Director of the European Law Centre. Professor Hall has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practised law with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department for nine years mainly in the areas of administrative law and judicial review. Professor Hall’s areas of research and teaching interest are: contract law, international law, the traditions of the natural law and the common law, European and Roman legal history and European Union law. 

Professor He is a tenured Associate Professor at Peking University Law School, where he teaches Chinese Contract Law (in English) and other subjects in private law (in Chinese) and serves as the editor for private law of Peking University Law Journal (in Chinese). Professor He’s writing widely ranges from contracts, tort, and property to family law, law of civil procedure and legal theory, with a particular focus on the interplay of private law and related subjects, and the interplay of doctrinal analysis and economic analysis of law. He has published in Chinese, English and German. Professor He received his LLB from Peking University in 2008 and obtained his PhD in Law from Peking University in 2013 and his Dr. jur. magna cum laude from University of Mannheim in Germany in 2016.

Hao Jiang is an Assistant Professor of comparative private law at Bocconi University. He has written on topics in contract theory, American, Chinese and European business and private law. Prior to joining Bocconi, he taught at Tulane Law School, City University of Hong Kong, visited Paris II and Trieste and conducted post-doctoral research at Max Planck Institute. He is a member of the New York State Bar and European Law Institute. He is the author and editor of two books published by Cambridge Press and one by Edward Elgar. He authored a dozen journal articles in Tulane Law Review and Michigan State Law Review, NYU Journal of Law and Business, American Journal of Jurisprudence etc. He earned a law degree in China along with a J.D., an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from Tulane Law School.

Cui Jianyuan is a professor from School of Law, Tsinghua University (Tsinghua Law School). He holds the title of “Kaiyuan Scholar” and serves as the director of the Civil Law Research Center at Tsinghua Law School. Professor Cui also serves as the Vice President of the China Civil Law Research Association. His research focuses on the field of civil law. He has been recognized as an “Outstanding Young and Middle – aged Jurist” in China and has received numerous awards, including the “Outstanding Young Teacher Award” from the Ministry of Education, the “Fok Ying-tung Education Foundation Young Teacher Award”, and the “Baogang Education Foundation Outstanding Teacher Award”. Prof. Cui has authored numerous influential works and published over 200 academic papers.

Hui Jing is Assistant Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He previously worked at CityU Law School from 2020 to 2022. Jing completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, where his doctoral thesis was awarded the Melbourne Law School Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize for Best PhD Thesis. Jing teaches and conducts research in equity and trust, contract, property, and charity law. He is the author of The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts (CUP). Jing has published in journals including Legal Studies, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Journal of Equity, and he has contributed chapters to several edited collections.

Dr. Siyi Lin is an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law. Dr. Lin’s research interests include unjust enrichment, trust law, contract law and property law.

Dr. Lin completed her PhD at CUHK LAW where his doctoral thesis was awarded the Young Scholars Thesis Award for best PhD thesis. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Lin obtained her LLM from CUHK LAW and her LLB from China University of Political Science and Law.

Qiao Liu is currently Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He is also Honorary Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland (Australia) and Adjunct Chair Professor at the School of Law of Xiamen University (China). He serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP). He teaches and researches in contract law (both Anglo- Australian and Chinese), comparative Chinese law and commercial law (both domestic and international) and has published in leading law journals including the Modern Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law and the Cambridge Law Journal. He was a member of a small expert group working with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Secretariat on the updating of the Digest on the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Alexander Loke JSD, LLM (Columbia), LLB (Hons)(NUS) is Professor and Associate Dean at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law, and Director of the Hong Kong Commercial & Maritime Law Centre. Loke publishes widely in contract law, corporate and securities law, and international finance. He was a co-editor in vol. 1 (Remedies for Breach of Contract) and vol. 2 (Formation and Third Party Beneficiaries) in the series Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia (Oxford University Press). Representative publications include: “Intermediaries as ‘gatekeepers’ in international and domestic regulation” in Intermediaries in Commercial Law, P S Davies & C H Tan, eds (Hart Publishing, 2022); “Mistakes in algorithmic trading of cryptocurrencies” (2020) 83Modern Law Review 1343 “Excusable Consent in Duress” (2017) 37 Legal Studies 418.

Man Teng IONG has been a Senior Instructor (since August 2019) and Programme Coordinator of Master of Law in Macau Law and Practice (since July 2023) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. When he was working at the Macau Health Bureau as a Legal Advisor and Private Notary (2013 to 2019), he was also a Teaching Assistant (February 2018 to June 2018) and a Research Assistant (2016 to 2017) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.

He obtained a PhD in private law at the Law School of the University of Minho, Portugal (November 2022). After the PhD degree, he has been an integrated researcher in the Research Centre for Justice and Governance in this Law School. He teaches various law subjects in bachelor and master programmes, such as Obligational Law, Introduction to Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Political Science, etc.

Giulia Aurora Radice is a PhD student at the University of Milan in Roman Law and PhD student at Soochow University (China) in Civil Law (under a joint PhD agreement).

Her PhD thesis focuses on contractual liabilities in Chinese law from a Roman law perspective, with a focus on Force Majeure and the Change of Circumstances institution of the Chinese civil code. Her research work is complemented by assistance in teaching activities and participation in conferences, both domestically and in international settings. For instance, she has attended the Asian Legal History Conference (2021, 2022, 2023), the Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (2022, 2023), Asian Law Institute Conference (2023), the Lake Como Roman Law School of Advanced Studies (2023). She is the author of the paper “Romanistic Underpinnings in the General Principles of the Chinese Civil Code 2020” (ISSN 2385-2445) and co-translator of the article “The Essence of Traditional Chinese Legal Culture” (ISSN 1124-7105).

Ruifeng Song is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. His research interest is in reforming notice-and-consent and strengthening accountability and transparency in data privacy laws. He has presented his works in venues including the Michigan Law School 2022 Junior Scholars Conference, the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, and the 2022 Machine Lawyering Conference at CUHK.

Normann Witzleb is an Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chair of the Obligations Lab Asia, a research cluster of the Law Faculty’s Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Faculty of Law.

He has published widely on privacy and data protection law, the law of torts and remedies, as well as comparative law. His book publications include Tort Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 4th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2024, forthcoming), with N Srivastava (ed.);  Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023), ed.; Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Democracy and Privacy in the Age of Micro-Targeting (Routledge, 2020), with M Paterson & J Richardson (eds) and Remedies: Commentary and Materials, 7th edn (Thomson Reuters, 2020).

Professor Wolff was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law in January 2019 and assumed the Deanship on 30 September 2019. Prior to that he was the Dean of the CUHK Graduate School from September 2014 to August 2019. Professor Wolff was a founding member of the Faculty of Law (then: School of Law). He has served amongst others as Associate Dean (Faculty Development) (9/2008 to 7/2010), as Director of the Master of Laws Programmes in International Economic Law, Common Law and Chinese Business Law (9/2008 to 7/2011) and as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) & Head of Graduate Division of Law (8/2010 to 8/2014). Professor Wolff specializes in International and Chinese Business Law, Comparative Law, and Private International Law. He has studied, worked and conducted research in a number of jurisdictions, including mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA. He is admitted to practice in England & Wales and in Germany. He is frequently invited to work as consultant with multi-national companies and law firms on investment projects in the Greater China region.

Professor Wu is an Associate Professor at School of Law, Renmin University of China. Before joining Renmin Law School, Professor Wu obtained his DPhil, MPhil and MJur at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, supervised by Professor William Swadling. His research interests cover property, trusts, unjust enrichment, and company law. He published in journals in both Chinese (eg, Chinese Journal of Law, Peking University Law Journal, and ECUPL Journal) and English (eg, European Business Organization Law Review, Legal Studies, and Asia Pacific Law Review), and co-translated the Chinese Civil Code (Brill).

Yang Chen is an Assistant Professor at School of Law, the City University of Hong Kong. He has received an LLB from China University of Political Science and Law, an LLM from London School of Economics, and another LLM and SJD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Professor Chen works primarily in the areas of intellectual property law, with a keen interest in particularly trade secrets law and right of publicity. He also researches trademark law and copyright law. His works have appeared in several journals such as the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Hong Kong Law Journal, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property Law, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Manman Yang is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at West Anhui University. She got a bachelor’s degree in law and a master’s degree in procedural law in China. She received a Doctoral Degree in law from the Faculty of Law, University of Macau, China, in 2021. Her Ph.D. research was on medical malpractice. Her research area is medical law and civil law.

Hanbin Zheng is currently a Ph.D. candidate in civil law and commercial law in Zhejiiang University and an LL.M. candidate in European Master of law and economics. His main research interest includes private law and commercial law, and he is working on his Ph.D. thesis about bankruptcy reorganization. He also holds an LL.M. degree from Cambridge.

Xingguang Zou is currently an Assistant research fellow at Tsinghua University Law School. He received Ph.D., LL.M., and LL.B. degrees from Peking University Law School, and a LL.M. degree from Yale Law School. Xingguang works primarily on financial regulation, with a particular interest in the regulation of investment funds. He also has a wide array of research interests including trust law, corporate governance and contract law. He has published articles in several journals listed in CSSCI in Chinese such as the Law and Economy, the Securities Market Herald, and the Financial Regulation Research.