As digital platforms, services and applications are becoming indispensable for everyday life, ensuring that consumers are adequately protected is more critical than ever. This conference aims to bring together legal scholars, practitioners and others to discuss emerging trends of consumer protection law across Asia and beyond. With a focus on private law, we seek to explore how existing legal frameworks need to be adapted to address new issues in safeguarding consumer rights and interests in the digital environment.
Digital services – whether e-commerce, social media, mobile apps, digital health or financial services, to name a few – present unique challenges for consumer protection laws around the world. In Asia, the situation is even more complicated because consumer laws and regulatory frameworks vary significantly across countries due to diverse legal traditions, policy preferences and levels of economic development. Issues such as misleading, manipulative and abusive conduct, opaque or unfair contract terms, inappropriate handling of personal data, enforcement of consumer laws have become pressing concerns.
To provide a platform for discussing these issues, the CCTL Obligations Lab Asia at CUHK LAW will hold a hybrid conference on “Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia” on Thursday-Friday, 15-16 May 2025.
We warmly invite you to join us for the conference in person or online. Please register your attendance by following the instructions on the “Registration” tab.