Speakers

Prof. Iris Benöhr is a Full Professor of Law and serves as the Director of Internationalisation at Southampton Law School. Her expertise and research interests lie mainly in the fields of consumer law, financial law, new technologies and dispute resolution.

The work of Prof. Benöhr was published in leading law journals (e.g., Journal of Consumer Policy and European Review of Private Law) and by renowned publishers, including Oxford University Press and Hart Publishing.
She also collaborates with international and regional organizations as a policy advisor and legal consultant. Notably, she recently contributed to a project with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission (CCC), funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat. This initiative aimed to enhance consumer protection, education and awareness in the CARICOM region trough capacity building and training.

Cai Yujie is a Ph. D student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Macau. My research interests are International Law and International commercial law. As for my academic background, I got my bachelor’s degree from Shanghai International Studies University and got my master’s degree from the University of Bristol, UK. During my year in master’s program, I’m very interested in International commercial law especially data protection and write my master’s thesis concern cross-border data flows. Recently, I participated in a conference on sustainable regional integration in ASEAN, which inspired me to explore consumer data protection within the ASEAN context.

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Dr. Pangyue Cheng is a Global Academic Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on ESG integration, corporate responsibility, and AI governance, examining the legal challenges posed by emerging technologies and sustainability demands in shaping corporate governance and regulatory practices. Pangyue holds an LLB from Beijing Normal University, an LLM in Corporate and Financial Services Law, and a PhD from the National University of Singapore. She was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University and has contributed to several research projects at NUS Law School. Prior to her academic career, Pangyue practiced law in mainland China and served as legal counsel for a listed AI company.

Prof. May Cheong is an Associate Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and Justice. Her main research areas are contract law, commercial law, consumer and competition law, unfair contracts, remedies, restitution/unjust enrichment. May is a comparative law scholar focussing on Asian law. May’s recent research interest is the intersection of law and technology centring on contract and consumer protection. She teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in a wide range of subjects including contracts and consumer protection. May supervises LLM and PhD candidates and is currently co-supervising PhD candidatures in the areas of smart contracts and modern slavery. May is also an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University and was formerly Deputy Head of School, Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. May was also formerly a Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, and had previously practiced as a commercial litigation lawyer at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after being admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

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Guo Peng is a PhD candidate at the University of Macau specialising in technological law, with a particular emphasis on the legal risks and regulations associated with the development of artificial intelligence technology, as well as data and privacy protection. I have had the privilege of publishing my research in Chinese core journals, and have led and actively contributed to several research projects that have been successfully concluded. Additionally, I have achieved first and second prizes in esteemed national legal competitions, such as the National Law Essay Contest and the National Mock Legislative Competition. I have also been recognised with awards and have presented my findings at several provincial legal forums in China. In recognition of my academic achievements, I have been honored with National Scholarships consecutively in 2022 and 2023.

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Man Teng IONG is an Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator of Master of Law in Macau Law and Practice 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. 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, master and PhD programmes, such as Obligational Law, Contract Law, Introduction to Law, Comparative Legal Systems, Criminology and Criminal Justice, etc.

Gunn is a JSD candidate at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. His research focuses on the regulatory diffusion of digital economy regulations into developing countries, especially in digital competition law. Moreover, his research focus is on the legislative developments leading up to the initial adoption of the law as countries start their legislative process. He observes leading jurisdiction legislative developments and interactions with multinational digital platforms and international organizations to create and customize digital regulations for their domestic context. Gunn holds an LLB from Thammasat University, Thailand, and an LLM from UC Berkeley Law. Gunn has worked as a researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a think tank based in Thailand that conducts policy research across various areas. His research experience focuses on various legal and policy topics, such as competition law, data protection, and platform economy regulations

Dr. Ridoan Karim is a Lecturer in Business Law, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) – Malaysia Hub at the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. He has taught and researched in the fields of contract and cyber law.

Uta Kohl is Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Southampton with research interests primarily in governance questions of the internet – its territoriality, dominant corporate actors, personal data building blocks, its communications (e.g. hate speech or disinformation) and its technologies (i.e. algorithms and AI).

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.

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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 her 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.

Dr. Lin is qualified as a lawyer in mainland China. Her previous professional experience includes work at King & Wood Mallesons and Fangda Partners in Hong Kong and Shenzhen offices.

Noble Lo is a PhD researcher at Lancaster University. He completed his postgraduate degrees at The University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford. He received his Juris Doctor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His papers, including the law on EU and HK data protection, intoxication and criminal liability, and treaties and international agreements, have been published by the CUHK LAW’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development, the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong, and Taylor & Francis. He also gained practical legal research, drafting, and trial experience at leading chambers and international law firms, such as Des Voeux Chambers, Liberty Chambers, Linklaters and Clifford Chance. He is a member of the Law and Society Association and the Association of Law Teachers.

Célia Matias holds a PhD in law from the University of Hong Kong and currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Macau. Her research focuses on the intersection of law and technology, intellectual property law and jurisprudence.

Eliza Mik has joined the CUHK Faculty of Law in January 2021. 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, Eliza’s research has centered on smart contracts and the use of artificial intelligence in transaction automation. 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), amongst others.

Isabel Mousinho de Figueiredo teaches Private Law at the University of Macau, where she is an Assistant Professor. She taught courses at the University of Lisbon, Polytechnic University of Macau and visited the University of Trieste. Admitted to the Bar in Portugal in 2002 with extensive experience in legal practice and arbitration. Author of a book on Tort Law and other publications in English, German, Italian and Portuguese. Law degree, “Mestrado” and PhD earned from the University of Lisbon, LLM from the University of Münster.

Rostam J. NEUWIRTH is Distinguished 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 authored 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 trade, language, cognition, art, culture, society, and technology, on the other.

NGUYEN Thi Phuong is a PhD candidate at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law. She obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law at Vietnam National University-Hanoi (VNU), Faculty of Law, and a master’s in Asian Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

She worked at the Centre for Comparative Law at the VNU Faculty of Law. She was a research assistant to several projects that focused on cooperation between Vietnam and some European countries regarding political, social, economic, and legal aspects. In 2011, she was a lecturer at Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam.

She authored one article in an English-language law journal, two forthcoming articles in the Comparative Legal History, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, two forthcoming book chapters, and several articles in Vietnamese law journals. Her writings concentrate on the relationship between good governance, institutional design, political and economic development, and law and religion in Vietnam.

Gleb Papyshev is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His scholarly pursuits span across comparative AI policy and regulation, digital ethics, and human-AI interaction. The results of his research were published in Technology in Society, Policy Design and Practice, Journal of Asian Public Policy, AI and Society, AI and Ethics, Data & Policy, and The Handbook on Regulating AI and Big Data in Emergent Economies.

Jeannie Marie Paterson is a Professor of Consumer Protection and Technology Law and founding co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. She holds a current practising certificate and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Jeannie’s research and teaching expertise lies in the fields of contract, consumer protection law, data protection law and regulatory design for responsible and safe AI. Much of her current work focuses on the regulatory and ethical challenges of AI, including concerns around misrepresentation, misinformation and deep fake fraud. She is also interested in the realisation of normative values of fairness, transparency and consent in interactions between consumers and AI.

Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). Her research interests are in the areas of financial law and regulation, contract law and tort law.

Rachel received an LLB from the National University of Singapore in 2016, and an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. She was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 2017.

Prior to joining SMU, Rachel was a researcher at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Banking & Finance Law. Rachel also previously practised as a lawyer in Singapore from 2017 to 2020. Her experience in legal practice focused on financial services regulation, and covered legal and regulatory issues relating to banking, capital markets, payment services, insurance and fintech.

Prof. Jani Purnawanty is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, specializing in International Business Law as well as Law Information Technology. She actively contributes to International Law, Cyberlaw research, and the intersections of legal frameworks with modern challenges like e-commerce and climate change.

She earned her master’s degree in International Business Law from James E. Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA under the Fulbright Scholarship. Her scholarly works focus on global justice, the impact of artificial intelligence, and sustainable development, and she addresses contemporary legal issues. In sequences 2022 and 2023, she won a grant from the Pulitzer Centre under Impact Seed Funding (ISF) for climate change. Since then, her concerns have become climate change, decarbonization, and environmental issues

Prof. Cenuk Widiyastrisna Sayekti holds the position of assistant professor at the School of Postgraduate Program at Airlangga University, a prestigious institution located in Indonesia. She is actively involved with the Center for Environment and Renewable Energy Studies, where she collaborates with fellow researchers. Throughout her academic career, Cenuk has made substantial contributions to the field of law and economics. Her work is characterized by a rigorous analysis of legal frameworks and their implications for economic policies, particularly in the context of competition law. Currently, she is immersed in a research project that delves into the legal dimensions of food systems within the ASEAN. This project aims to explore the intricate legal challenges and regulatory issues that impact food security, agricultural practices, and trade within the member countries.

Shi Tonghe is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, under the supervision of Professor Li Yang. She holds a bachelor’s degree in software engineering from Inner Mongolia University and a master’s degree in law from Xiangtan University, reflecting her interdisciplinary expertise in the integration of law and technology. Her primary research interests focus on the construction of intelligent courts and cross-border data compliance, with a particular emphasis on the legal challenges posed by emerging technologies. Her academic work has been published in peer-reviewed Chinese journals, including the Journal of Hunan Police Academy. Through her research, Shi aims to explore innovative approaches to bridging the gap between legal systems and technological advancements, contributing to the development of forward-looking regulatory frameworks.

Ruifeng Song is a Lecturer at the Office of University General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interest is in privacy and data protection. He is a member of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network.

Dr Neerav Srivastava completed is PhD at Monash in 2024 and is a lecturer at Deakin Law School. His main area is law and technology, specifically apps, digital platforms and artificial intelligence. He has written on Uber, Airbnb, YouTube, Facebook, Tinder, ChatGPT, and chatbots generally. Neerav has published in respected journals, contributed chapters to books, won a scholarship prize for legal professional studies, was awarded the Monash HP Lee Student Publication prize two years in a row, been interviewed by Australian media, and has been cited in judgments. He is one of the general editors of Tort Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell, 2025). Before pursuing an academic career, Neerav was in a senior management role in legal media.

Sun Xuan is a second-year Ph.D. student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the mandatory labeling obligations of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC). She holds a Bachelor’s degree from China University of Political Science and Law and a Master’s degree from Peking University.

Prof. Alexandr Svetlicinii is Associate Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau, where he also serves as Programme Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law. He holds PhD in Law from the European University Institute and LL.M in International Business Law from the Central European University. Svetlicinii has written extensively in the fields of competition law and international economic law. In addition to his academic work, he serves as Co-Director of the Academic Society for Competition Law in South-East Europe, member of the International Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago, Ambassador of the Value of Competition initiative at the University of Oxford, Centre for Competition Law and Policy, and the Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network.

Dr. Vivi Tan is a lecturer at RMIT Law School and a member of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. She researches across fields of consumer protection law, contract law, law and technology, including AI, and dispute resolution system and design, including alternative and online dispute resolution (ADR and ODR). Her PhD thesis (University of Melbourne) explores the integration of information and communication technologies into judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution processes. She demonstrates the design principles essential to providing a high-quality alternative for consumers to traditional court processes. Her findings establish how ODR can meet with the requirements of civil justice in the context of consumer protection having regard to rule of law values.

Attamongkol is an SJD candidate at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he has served as a graduate affiliate for the Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research. His research–which explores the intersection of intellectual property law, the right to privacy, and emerging technology–has been presented in conferences hosted by the University of Toronto, Stanford University, the UN Internet Governance Forum 2023 in Kyoto, and Northwestern University.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Atta was a researcher at Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), where he helped the institute dissect Thailand’s data protection legislation and draft compliance guidelines for various industries. Atta earned an LLM also from Indiana University and an LLB from Thammasat University in Thailand. Additionally, he maintains privacy certifications CIPP/E and CIPP/US from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Dr. Juthamas Thirawat is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. She teaches courses on Juristic Acts and Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Law on Electronic Transactions, and Information Technology.

Juthamas received her LL.B. with first-class honors from Chulalongkorn University in 2011 and the LL.M. in Business Law from Thammasat University in 2013. She obtained her second LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, with the Dean’s List in 2017. She earned her S.J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2022.

With over 10 years of experience in the fields of consumer protection and e-commerce, Juthamas has served the Government in various organizations, with roles including advising the Office of the Consumer Protection Board to develop MOUs with other countries, reviewing consumer complaints for the National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission, and drafting the Bills on Electronic Transactions and Platform Economy for the Office of the Council of State.

Dr. Adnan Trakic is an Associate Professor with the Department of Business Law and Taxation, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. He has taught and researched in the fields of conventional and Islamic finance law, business law, and dispute resolution. Adnan has published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs.

Prof. Julian Webb joined Melbourne Law School in 2014 and teaches in the areas of legal ethics, civil procedure, and regulatory theory. He previously held chairs at the Universities of Warwick and Westminster in the UK. He has been an honorary or visiting professor at the University of Exeter, University College, London, the Southampton Institute, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the USA, and a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Julian’s research focuses particularly on technological and regulatory disruption in the law and legal services, as well as issues of ethical theory and practice in the legal profession.

Prof. 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 Tort Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 4th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2025), with K Bokhary & N Srivastava (eds); 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.

Clemence Wong is the Senior Legal Counsel (Acting) of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD).

Ms Wong was admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong in 2019. Prior to joining the PCPD, she engaged in private practice as a litigation solicitor.

Ms Wong is responsible for rendering legal support in the work of the PCPD. Among others, she handles enquiries from Government departments, various stakeholders, etc. in respect of legal issues concerning compliance with the provisions of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486). She also represents the Privacy Commissioner in administrative appeals proceedings and assists in the issue of various publications of the PCPD.

Prof. Chao XI serves as the Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined CUHK in 2007 after earning his PhD from the University of London. He has held several leadership positions within the Faculty of Law at CUHK, including Interim Dean, Associate Dean (Research), and Head of the Graduate Division of Law. Professor Xi is internationally recognised for his research and scholarship in Chinese law, corporate law and governance, securities regulation, financial regulation, and empirical legal studies. He has secured numerous competitive research grants, including several prestigious fundings from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. In recognition of his deep commitment to teaching excellence, Professor Xi has received the esteemed CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2010, 2017, and 2022.

Professor Xi is dedicated to public service and has contributed to significant legal reform initiatives. He has served in various roles, including as a member of the Department of Justice’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Task Force. His expertise has been valued by law firms, multinational enterprises, and government agencies.

Yichen Yang, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Macau.

Yuan Weiwei is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Macau (UM), specializing in Law on Technology and Medicine. He has extensive experience in legal research, technology policy, and international trade law. His research focuses on the legal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence in healthcare, aiming to develop frameworks that balance innovation with patient privacy and data security. Besides, Yuan has a strong background in dispute resolution and foreign investment projects.

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Prof. Mimi Zou is Professor and Head of School, School of Private and Commercial Law, University of New South Wales (UNSW). She holds a Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Martin School, a renowned interdisciplinary research and policy unit based at the University of Oxford. She is internationally recognised for her work examining the impact of new technologies on private and commercial law and the regulation of such technologies from comparative and international perspectives. She received a prestigious Global Australian Award in 2024 for her significant research and policy contributions to these fields, including as an expert advisor to the G7, World Economic Forum and the UK Government’s responsible technology adoption body. Prior to joining UNSW, she held various senior academic positions at top institutions worldwide, including the University of Oxford, where she was appointed to the first post in Chinese law and founded Oxford’s first lawtech innovation lab and an AI spinout. Professor Zou was Assistant Professor at CUHK from 2014 to 2017, after completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar.