Speakers

Ebrahim Afsah is an associate professor of public international law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen, and a visiting professor of international relations at the University of Brest, France. From 2018-2022 he was a professor of Islamic Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. He has been trained at the Universities of London, Dublin and Harvard, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg. Prior to academia, he worked for a decade as a consultant on security matters, public administration and legal reform. He has been a fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (Fernand Braudel), the Norwegian Academy of Science (Nordic Civil Wars), Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Program) and the National University of Singapore (Centre for Asian Legal Studies).

Research Interests include :

Public international law, especially the law of armed conflict
Comparative public law, especially comparative constitutional law
Islamic law, especially contemporary public law of Muslim-majority countries
Legal and administrative reform, especially in fragile states after violent conflict
International relations, especially theory

Alessio Azzutti is a lecturer in Law and Technology at the University of Glasgow and a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. Despite being an early-career academic, Alessio has cultivated an emerging international profile, marked by his scholarly contributions in both the EU and the United States, along with presentations at numerous conferences worldwide. Before joining the University of Glasgow, Alessio held positions at prestigious research institutes across several countries, including Italy, Germany, and Singapore. He is also an active member of renowned international research organizations, notably the European Banking Institute, the European Law Institute, and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Alessio’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of Finance, Law, and Technology. Over the past four years, he has devoted his research efforts to the implications of AI adoption in capital markets, particularly focusing on risks of market manipulation. His pioneering work in this area has garnered significant recognition within the scientific community and has also influenced the work of regulatory bodies and financial supervisors globally. Alessio’s research on AI and market manipulation has been widely cited, including by regulatory authorities such as the Italian Consob, the Dutch Financier Market Autoritat, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Portuguese Commissao de Mercado de Valores Mobiliarios, as well as by global private standard setters such as the Financial Markets Standards Board. More recently, Alessio has been researching AI adoption by public institutions like central banks and financial regulators. He is currently investigating the future role, as well as related regulatory aspects, of innovative technologies such as Generative AI in financial regulatory compliance.

Kevin Cheng is an Associate Professor and he currently serves as Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law. He was awarded a PhD in criminology from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed his Juris Doctor (JD) and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) here at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before that, he obtained his Honours Bachelor of Arts (with distinction) from the University of Toronto where he majored in criminology and political science. His research interests are primarily in the fields of criminology, criminal justice and socio-legal studies with a strong emphasis on empirical work in Hong Kong. He has written on topics including, guilty pleas, prisoner re-entry, procedural justice and legitimacy, and public attitudes towards crime and criminal justice policies. His work appears in leading criminology and interdisciplinary journals including, the British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, Social & Legal Studies, Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Dr. Cheng has received funding from the General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grants Council for his research on guilty pleas and cracked trials and his research on the sliding scale of sentence discounts for guilty pleas.

Prof. Hargreaves joined the Faculty in 2013 following the completion of his doctorate in law at the University of Toronto, where his thesis considered the privacy and legal implications of new mapping technologies that record public space for commercial purposes. It was supported by a major grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.  Prof. Hargreaves also holds a BCL from Oxford University, where his dissertation considered the interaction between proposed privacy standards in APEC and EU laws regulating the outward flow of personal data to non-European states.  He also holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and a BA in politics & sociology from McGill University.

Prior to joining CUHK, Prof. Hargreaves taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, worked as a policy advisor to the Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, and practiced law for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General in the constitutional law & policy branch. His areas of research and teaching reflect this background, with a dual focus on information & privacy law and constitutional law & legal theory. He welcomes discussions with LLB or JD students who are interested in writing independent research papers on those topics; prospective PhD students should, however, follow the established application procedures rather than contacting him directly with a proposal.

Prof. Hargreaves was Director of the LLB & Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies from 2015-2019, and won the Faculty’s Teaching Excellence award in 2017. He is external reviewer for a number of academic journals, a judge for the Undergraduate Awards (law category), an examiner for the overseas PCLL Conversion Examination, and sits on the Board of Advisors of Teach for Hong Kong.

Robin Hui HUANG is Professor in the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (at the highest academic rank of Band A3), having previously served as Executive Director for the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development as well as Assistant Dean (External Affairs). Prior to joining CUHK, Professor Huang was a tenured staff member in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he now holds a position of Adjunct Professor. At CUHK, he was Associate Professor (2010-2014), Professor (Band A1, 2014-2018), Professor (Band A2, 2018-2022) and Professor (Band A3, since 2022). He is also Li Ka Shing Visiting Professor in McGill Law School, High-level Visiting Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School, ‘经天学者’ Honorary Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, Guest Professor at China University of Political Science and Law, as well as visiting scholars at Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, Oxford Law School and Cambridge Law School. He received two bachelor degrees – in mechanical engineering and in law – and a Masters degree in law, from Tsinghua University in Beijing China, graduating first in his class, and a PhD from the Faculty of Law, UNSW.

Professor Huang is an internationally recognized expert specializing in corporate law, securities regulation, financial regulation, foreign investment and law & technology, with a particular focus on the case of China, from comparative and empirical perspectives. He has had over 150 publications in various jurisdictions, including the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and elsewhere (some of his works are available for download at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=365831). These include many papers published in leading international journals, such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Banking and Finance Law Review, Company and Securities Law Journal, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, as well as core journals in China, such as Chinese Journal of Law [法学研究], China Legal Science [中国法学], Peking University Law Journal [中外法学] and Tsinghua Law Review [清华法学]. He has also published more than 10 books and close to 20 book chapters with reputable publishers such as the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer Law International, Routledge, Edward Elgar, Peking University Press and Tsinghua University Press.

Professor Huang’s research has high impact locally and internationally, having informed judicial decisions (e.g., cited with approval by the High Court of the Republic of Singapore, Delaware Chancery Court in the US, Southern District Court of New York) as well as regulatory and legislative activities. He is invited by the PRC Supreme People’s Court to serve as Expert for Ascertainment of Foreign Law, and is appointed by the Shanghai Financial Court as Expert Advisor. He is also Vice-President of China Securities Law Society, Specially-Invited Expert of China Banking Law Society, and an elected member of the Standing Committee of China Commercial Law Society. He has been invited to deliver internal seminars and/or training programs to the National People’s Congress of the PRC, regulators (e.g., People’s Bank of China, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission) and couts (e.g, Shanghai Financial Court, Qianhai Free Trade Zone Court), as well as public lectures, presentations and keynote speeches at regional and international venues. He has received many awards in recognition of his excellence of research, as well as significant funding support from Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant), the Government of the PRC (National Social Science Fund of China), Hong Kong Research Grant Council (General Research Fund, Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme), and Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office of the Hong Kong Government (Public Policy Research Fund). He also serves on the editorial boards of reputable international journals, such as Asian Journal of Comparative Law (CUP), Asian Journal of Law and Society (CUP), Securities Regulation Law Journal (SSCI) and Hong Kong Law Journal (SSCI).

Professor Huang is a qualified Chinese lawyer and has provided expert consultancy to international organizations (e.g. the World Bank), governmental bodies (e.g., Shenzhen Qianhai Free Trade Zone Administration Bureau), regulatory agencies (e.g. Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission), stock exchanges (e.g., Shanghai Stock Exchange) and professional bodies (e.g. Hong Kong Securities Institute). He also acts as expert witness in local and international litigations, arbitrations and regulatory enforcement actions. Professor Huang is a designated arbitrator of several international arbitration commissions, including Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Center), South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration), Nanjing Arbitration Commission, Tianjin Arbitration Commission, and Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA). He also serves as Independent Non-executive Director of China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited, which is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He is also Honorary Advisor to China Independent Non-Executive Directors Association.

Weijie Huang is an Assistant Professor at Law School of Shenzhen University in China. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong, where she was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to study at the UC Berkeley School of Law and the Final-Year PhD Program Award to study at ARCIALA in Singapore Management University. Her research focuses on Intellectual Property Law.

Pawee JENWEERANON is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Pawee is a lecturer in law at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University (Thailand) and a research affiliate at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Besides, he has been working for the World Bank Group since March 2021 as a regulatory specialist for digital economy (Thailand).

Prior joining Thammasat University, Pawee was a legal officer at the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Supreme Court of Thailand and a part-time researcher at Thai National Credit Bureau.

He engaged in research projects related to FinTech law and policy since he started working as a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

His past research projects concerned the regulatory framework for facilitating the establishment of equity crowdfunding as a means of promoting ASEAN SMEs, the use of financial technology to enable financial inclusion in ASEAN, the abuse of patent litigation toward the Japanese and Taiwanese IT Industry as well as the patent protection of computer software.

Uta Kohl is a Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Southampton with research interests in the governance of the internet and technology as well as transnational corporations. She graduated from the University of Tasmania with a BA/LLB (First Class) and received a PhD in Law from the University of Canberra (2003).
Uta Kohl is the author of the monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007, ppb 2010) and the textbook Information Technology Law (5th ed, 2016, Routledge, with D. Rowland, A. Charlesworth). In 2013, Google Inc invited her to do further research on internet jurisdiction, which led to the symposium National Law versus the Global Internet – Re-Negotiating Westphalia? (2014) and the edited collection The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017). More recently, she has branched out into other online governance questions, like predictive analytics (see edited collection Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law, CUP, 2021, with J. Eisler) and comparative privacy and hate speech regulation (see articles below and the funded Leverhulme project ‘Modern Technologies, Privacy Law and the Dead’). She also acted as the Human Rights Trustee on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Watch Foundation (2014-2020).
Uta Kohl has held various visiting positions, most recently as a visiting scholar at MIT (2023) in a collaborative project with Prof Nazli Choucri on corporate sovereignty on the internet.

MS. CHRISTIE KUNG-YU LAM is a final year LL.B. undergraduate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in international humanitarian law, international criminal law and artificial intelligence law. During her undergraduate studies, Christie is also an avid mooter. She has represented the university in five international mooting competitions, including the Red Cross Moot, Nuremberg Moot and Vis Moot. Christie was awarded a string of scholarships, including the HKSAR Government Scholarship, Baker & McKenzie Scholarship for LLB Students, DeHeng Law Offices (Hong Kong) LLP Prize in Law, To Yuet Lai Scholarships, Lee Kam Woo & Shum Shuk Yuen Scholarships, and Wei Lun Foundation Scholarship Faculty of Law, Chow & Ho Solicitors Scholarship.

Sunny Xiyuan LI is currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Law, CUHK. He is a research fellow of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, CUHK. He studies corporate and fintech law, with research focus on cryptoassets and central bank digital currency regulation. He has published several papers in top journals including Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Banking and Finance Law Review, and International Lawyer.

Ranked 2^nd and 10^th in the Asia Law Portal’s 2022 women legal innovators in Asia and 2023 APAC legal innovators respectively, Jennifer is an active advocate for legal tech innovation. She co-founded LawTech.Asia and eTPL.Asia, a winner of Facebook’s Ethics in AI Research on “Operationalising information fiduciaries for AI governance”. She also sits on the steering committee of ALITA; and is a chapter organiser for Legal Hackers Singapore.Top of Form

Bilingual in English and Business Chinese, Jennifer has advised a diverse clientele across Asia and Europe, spanning from banks and other financial institutions to fintech companies and global tech giants. Her advisory works extends to multi-jurisdictional regulatory matters and contractual arrangements pertaining to various business activities and banking facilities.  Her focus areas encompass a range of regulatory dimensions, including licensing, financial services regulations, AML/CFT, data privacy, electronic transactions, cybersecurity, technology risks, intellectual property, governance and business conduct. She has provided regulatory guidance on digital banking and fintech product innovations, including cutting-edge pioneering solutions involving digital wallets, cross-border transfers of cryptos-currency, fiat deposit/withdrawal to/from digital assets, and buy-now-pay-later models. Additionally, she has also represented a blockchain insurance platform in an arbitration involving alleged misrepresentations.

An alumna of the National University of Singapore (NUS), Jennifer contributes to academia by teaching at the NUS Law School and the Legal Innovation & Technology Institute on an adjunct basis. She is also a visiting researcher at the NUS Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law.  Her articles on “Singapore’s role as a legal innovation hub“ and “Navigating AI Governance across Jurisdictions“ have been published by Asia Law Portal (2021) and Legal Business World (2023).  Jennifer is also a mentor at an eFintech school and is regularly invited to speak on issues relating to legal innovation, technology, fintech, AI, Web3, DAOs, and NFTs.

Sandra Marco Colino is an Associate Professor. She specialises in competition law, merger control, the digital economy, technology law, EU law, telecommunications, and law & economics. She joined the Faculty in 2010 and is the Deputy Programme Director of the Master of Laws (LLM) in International Economic Law. She currently serves as Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network, and sits on the Academic Board of the law firm Dictum and on the Scientific Committee of the European University Institute’s Centre for a Digital Society. She previously directed the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED), and the Summer Schools on EU Competition Law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). Prior to moving to Hong Kong, she was a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (UK).

Prof. Marco Colino holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and an LLM from the University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain). A qualified lawyer in Spain and a member of the Madrid Bar, she has worked as stagiaire at the European Commission (Belgium) and has trained in various Madrid law firms. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA), the University of California – Berkeley (USA), the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of Birmingham (UK) and the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum of Stanford University (USA), and an Associate Researcher at the Royal University Institute for European Studies in Madrid. In 2010 she founded the Communications Policy and Regulation Scholars Forum (CPRSF). She is the Hong Kong news correspondent to the European Competition Law Review, and an analyst for Agenda Pública.

Her award-winning research has been extensively published in leading peer-reviewed journals and US law reviews. She is the author of various books, including the textbook Competition Law of the EU and UK (Oxford University Press), now in its 8th edition, and the monograph Vertical Agreements and Competition Law (Hart). She is the Principal Investigator of three major research projects funded by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council, and a member of two EU-funded Jean Monnet research networks. She was a founding member and the Deputy Director of the European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong, a collaboration between four of the city’s leading universities co-funded by the European Union.

Prof. Marco Colino’s honours and recognitions include the Young Researcher Award (CUHK, 2021), the Award for High-Impact in Legal Scholarship (CUHK, 2020), the Academic Excellence Award (Global Competition Review, 2020), the Antitrust Writing Award (Concurrences, 2018), the award for best paper and presentation (Georgetown University’s Center for German and European Studies, 2004), and the Teaching Excellence Award (CUHK, 2017).

Dr Eliza Mik has joined the Faculty of Law in January 2021. Prior to that she was researching and teaching at the Singapore Management University from January 2010 until December 2018, and then at Melbourne Law School throughout 2019. Before joining academia, she worked in-house for a number of software and telecommunications companies in Australia, Poland, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. She advised on software licensing, technology procurement, digital signatures, and e-commerce regulation. Her PhD focused on the private law aspects of e-commerce and on general problems of transaction automation. From 2014, she has actively researched smart contracts and blockchains, with a special emphasis on the legal prerequisites of their successful implementation in mainstream commerce. Eliza has advised the World Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. At present, she is a member of the UNCITRAL Expert Group for the Digital Economy, a member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform on ODR (iGLIP, Hong Kong), a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Society and Technology (TILT, Netherlands) and an Affiliate Researcher with the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne (CAIDE, Australia).

Rostam J. NEUWIRTH is Professor of Law and Head for Department of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau. Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata and the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) in Raipur (India) and worked as a legal adviser in the Department of European Law of the International Law Bureau of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He received his PhD degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a master’s degree in law (LLM) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université d’Auvergne (France). He is the author of the books ‘The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems’ (Routledge 2023) and ‘Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law’ (Routledge 2018) as well as numerous other publications that focus on contemporary global legal problems by exploring the intrinsic linkages between law, on the one hand, and language, cognition, art, culture, society, and technology, on the other.

Nydia Remolina is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, andserves as the Fintech Track Lead and Head of Industry Relations at the SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance. She is also a member of the Swiss Fintech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich. Her main areas of work and academic research include financial regulation, capital markets, banking law, and fintech. Nydia has taught or delivered lectures at various institutions across the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Nydia has been an instructor for the Global Certificate Program jointly organized by Harvard Law School and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and she is currently an instructor of the course on open finance offered to financial regulators and policy-makers by the Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge. Nydia has been invited to speak about fintech and financial regulation at various international organizations and regulators, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Prior joining academia, Nydia practiced law for over ten years, serving as the Manager of Policy Affairs at one of the largest financial conglomerates in Latin America, as a Senior Advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and working at Sullivan & Cromwell’s New York Office.

Nydia holds a Master in the Science of Law (JSM) from Stanford University and is completing her PhD in Law at the University of Zurich. Her research has been cited in internationally recognized publications such as Forbes and the New York Times and featured on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, the Oxford Business Law Blog, the Regulatory Review of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Machine Lawyering Blog of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Schmidt began his legal career as a Colorado State prosecutor in the United States. He has substantial trial experience in both the US and the PRC. In 2003, he became associated with Baker & McKenzie’s PRC intellectual property group. In November of 2010, he joined Jun He as counsel. Recently, he joined the law faculty at CUHK (the “Chinese University of Hong Kong”) as a professional consultant.

Mr. Schmidt has extensive experience in all aspects of PRC intellectual property practice, both contentious and non-contentious. He is experienced in managing large trademark portfolios, including Apple’s and Warner Bros.’, and he has helped a number of foreign brand owners achieve PRC “well-known” trademark status. He has overseen the acquisition of very high-profile marks and directed the recovery of numerous stolen marks.

With respect to enforcement, Mr. Schmidt has successfully prosecuted numerous administrative, civil and criminal IP cases in the PRC. He is the architect and prime mover behind Michael Jordan’s naming rights case against Qiaodan Sports (“喬丹體育”). A number of the maters he has help direct have been chosen as model cases either by the Supreme People’s Court or the QBPC (“Quality Brands Protection Committee”).

Back in 1983, Paul was an exchange student at CUHK in the International Asian Studies Program. He was also an actor in the Jacky Chan Kung-fu movie “Project A” (“ A計劃”).

Dr. Dicky Tsang is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are private international law and company law. His work has appeared in a number of leading international journals, including the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and multiple articles in the Journal of Private International Law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the European Union (in a WTO dispute-settlement case).

Prior to joining academia, he practised as a corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling, working in their New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York, England & Wales and Hong Kong.

Dr. Tsang was awarded his LL.B. and PCLL at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds degrees from Georgetown University (S.J.D.), Columbia University (LL.M., J.D.) and University College London (LL.M.).

Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel (PhD, KULeuven; LL.M., Harvard) is Full Professor of European Union law at the University of Liège, Belgium and Director of its interdisciplinary European Legal Studies Institute. He is also a part-time member of the Belgian Competition Authority. His research focuses on European Union substantive law and more particularly on new approaches to EU regulation (DIGITALPLATFORMS project) and the administrative enforcement of European law at Member State level (ERC EUDAIMONIA project (2021-2026)). In the recent past, Pieter also conducted research on the intersections between competition law, regulation and digital markets, inter alia as general co-rapporteur for the Fédération Internationale de Droit européen (FIDE) in 2020. Prior to taking up his position in Liège, he was an assistant professor at Leiden University (the Netherlands).

Dr. Charles Chao Wang is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Macau University of Science and Technology. Before that, he served as a Lecturer of Law at East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL). Dr. Wang received his PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which granted him the Postgraduate Research Output Award. His main research areas are corporate and financial law, law and technology, international investment law, labor law and comparative law. He has published extensively in leading law journals such as the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Securities Regulation Law Journal and International Lawyer. Dr. Wang has participated in multiple research projects organized by CUHK, ECUPL, Shanghai Stock Exchange and China Securities Investor Services Center.

Dr. Jingyi Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Jingyi’s research and teaching interests focus on comparative tax law and fiscal policy. Her recent work examines Chinese tax law reform, information exchange, tax administration and Hong Kong tax policies. Her publications appear in British Tax Review, Australian Tax Forum and Hong Kong Law Journal.

Jingyi obtained her PhD and LLM from King’s College London and her LLB from the East China University of Political Science and Law. Before joining CUHK, Jingyi was an Assistant Professor at the School of Transnational Law, Peking University, and a post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong.

Normann Witzleb joined CUHK Law in 2021. He was previously an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International and Engagement) in the Faculty of Law of Monash University Australia.

His research focus is on privacy and data protection law, the law of torts and remedies, as well as comparative law. His recent book publications include Contract Law in Changing Times: Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda (Routledge, 2023), edited;  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 ed (Thomson Reuters, 2020), with E Bant, S Degeling & K Barker. Some of his recent research is available from SSRN and ResearchGate.

Prof Witzleb maintains an adjunct position at Monash Law, where he teaches an LLM course on Privacy and Surveillance in the age of AI. He is admitted to practice in the Australian Capital Territory, a barrister of the High Court of Australia and a fully qualified German lawyer. In 2019 and 2020, he consulted with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on law reform projects in privacy and information law.

Prof Witzleb is an experienced PhD supervisor, who welcomes expressions of interest from higher degree research students in his areas of expertise.

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.

MS. VANESSA MAN-YI WONG is a LL.M. candidate in International and Transnational Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her Juris Doctor and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to reading law, she obtained a Master of Arts (Comparative Literature) at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include legal technologies, international humanitarian law, public international law, and international space law. Vanessa has published papers in various conferences including Legal Cooperation, Harmonization and Unification: An ASEAN Perspective Conference at Melbourne Law School. Vanessa is also a recipient of the HKSAR Government Scholarship. She has been appointed as a coach of the moot court teams at the University of Amsterdam and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Chao XI is Professor and Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he concurrently serves as Associate Dean (Research) and Head of Graduate Division of Law. He also directs the Chinese Law Program of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK.

Professor Xi specialises in comparative corporate law, securities regulation, financial regulation, and empirical legal studies, with a particular focus on the case of China. He has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including the Banking and Finance Law Review, European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Contract Law, and Journal of Corporate Finance. His research has received significant funding support from the Hong Kong SAR Government Research Grants Council, the PRC Ministry of Education, the Government of India, and the Sumitomo Foundation. He has been appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government to serve on the Assessment Panel of its Public Policy Research (PPR) and Strategic Public Policy Research (SPPR) Funding Schemes.

Professor Xi holds visiting positions at various leading overseas institutions. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international peer-reviewed journals, including The China Review (SSCI-indexed), the Hong Kong Law (SSCI-indexed), and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (Thomas Reuters). Professor Xi is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), UK, and is on the panels of arbitrators in several arbitration institutions. He has regularly been engaged by law firms, multinationals, and government departments and agencies as an expert.

Dr. Yu Xiang, BA, LLB, LLM (CityU), LLM (Aix-Marseille), PhD (CityU), is a Postdoc at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. His research interests and recent research endeavors focus on corporate law and governance, securities regulations, and law and technology. This includes the examination of the role of shareholder activism and securities class action for minority investor protection in China, the implication of EU corporate human rights due diligence law, and the emerging corporate AI governance and autonomous vehicles regulations.

Dr Xiao Shanyun is a Senior Lecturer in the Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration at Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree from City University of Hong Kong, Master of Laws degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as double degrees in Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws from South China Normal University. She possesses the National Unified Legal Professional Qualification Certificate of the People’s Republic of China.

She teaches courses on business law, company law and sustainable business practices, and her research interests are mainly focused on the fields of empirical legal studies, law and economics, corporate governance, and artificial intelligence and law. Her works have been presented in academic conferences, such as Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in America (CELS), American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) Annual Meeting, Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) Conference, Asian Law Institute Conference (ASLI). Furthermore, her research articles have been published in scholarly journals, institute report and book chapter that are relevant to these areas.