Speakers

Atcharaporn Ariyasunthorn is a researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a leading non-profit think tank in Bangkok focused on evidence-based policy across various sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Chulalongkorn University and conducts research in digital law, with a focus on AI governance, data privacy, and digital platform regulation. Her work also extends to infrastructure development, particularly road safety policy,reflecting a broad interest in policies that support both technological progress and public interest. In addition, she has further enhanced her expertise in data protection by completing the Personal Data Protection Law for Practitioners course at Chulalongkorn University. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of law, technology, and infrastructure, where she aims to contribute to the creation of legal frameworks that promote responsible innovation and safeguard the public interest.

Dr. Alessio Azzutti is an Assistant Professor in Law and Technology (FinTech) at the University of Glasgow. His interdisciplinary research bridges the fields of Law, Finance, and Technology, with a particular focus on AI regulation and governance in the financial sector. Prior to joining Glasgow, he held research roles at the University of Hamburg and the National University of Singapore. Alessio is an active member of various international research networks and frequently engages with regulators and industry on emerging policy and regulatory challenges.

Yida Cai is a PhD candidate at City University of Hong Kong, specializing in data regulation, competition law, and law and economics. His current research focuses on understanding the complexities of digital platform regulation, with the goal of contributing to the development of effective policies that promote fair competition and innovation in the digital age. Yida holds an LLB from Southwest University of Political Science and Law and an LLM from Washington University in St. Louis. He is now a part-time teaching staff at CityU School of Law.

Michael Goodyear is an Acting Assistant Professor and Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is an incoming Associate Professor at New York Law School (effective July 2025). Michael’s research explores how copyright, trademark, and related areas of the law evolve in response to technological and cultural change, including generative AI, deepfakes, and recognizing traditional knowledge. He also studies how intellectual property law can empower historically underrepresented populations, especially the LGBTQ+ community. His work has been published or is forthcoming in over a dozen law reviews, including the UC Davis Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, as well as popular press and scientific publications such as Slate and Issues in Science and Technology. Prior to becoming a professor, Michael was an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Guo Peng is a PhD candidate at the University of Macau specialising in technological law, with a particular emphasis on data compliance, personal information and privacy protection, as well as legal risks and regulations brought about by the development of artificial intelligence technology.

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.

Hans-Guenther Herrmann joins CUHK Law as Professional Consultant. He has worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer for close to 30 years and is qualified to practise at the Paris and California Bars. In his last role before joining CUHK, Hans was Senior Legal Counsel for Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea at The Kraft Heinz Company based in Melbourne. Before that, he was a member of the Hong Kong office of the U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for 20 years. Hans’ experience as a practitioner focused on corporate and commercial transactions, compliance and competition and consumer law.

Patrick Chung-Chia Huang is an Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University College of Law. He earned his J.S.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2023 and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2018. He also holds an LL.M., LL.B., and B.B.A. in Finance from NTU. His research focuses on substantive criminal law, particularly white-collar and financial crimes, cybercrime, with the lens of economic analysis.

Huang’s scholarship includes a 2020 article on autonomous vehicle liability in the National Taiwan University Law Journal and a co-authored chapter, “Machine-Learning Methods,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (2024). He has presented at international conferences such as ALEA, CELS, and AsLEA. His accolades include scholarships from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education and the Himalaya Foundation, as well as NTU Law’s Master’s Thesis Award in 2016.

Ms. Lilia Law is a Juris Doctor Candidate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Majoring in both biotechnology and business, Ms. Law’s research focuses on Intellectual Property (IP) law and artificial intelligence (AI) law, exploring issues such as data ownership, cross-border IP enforcement, software licensing, open-source compliance, and crypto regulation. 

During her undergraduate studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), she served as an invention analyst advising IP strategy for both academia and business. Moreover, she has received multiple scholarships and competitive awards throughout her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. In particular, she was recently awarded the JD Silver Scholarships for High Academic Merit at CUHK.

Jyh-An Lee is a Professor and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law. He has coached the New Ventures Legal Team (NVLT), a clinical support group collaborating with CUHK’s Pre-Incubation Centre for startup companies since 2015. Previously, he served as the LLB Programme Director and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies at CUHK Faculty of Law from 2019 to 2021 and the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED) from 2021 to 2022.

Professor Lee holds a JSD from Stanford Law School and an LLM from Harvard Law School. He has published on various aspects of intellectual property and law & technology in such academic journals as the Wake Forest Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Duke Law & Technology Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Technology Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Jurimetrics, Law, Innovation and Technology, and Computer Law & Security Review. His authored and edited books are Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press, 2021, co-edited with Reto M. Hilty and Kung-Chung Liu), Intellectual Property Law in China (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd ed., 2021, co-authored with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark), Web3 Governance: Law and Policy (co-edited with Joseph Lee, Routledge 2025), and Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012).

Before starting his academic career, Professor Lee was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions. During his studies at Stanford Law School, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014). He also lent his expertise as an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), which operates under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, during the same period. Professor Lee has been the legal lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. He is currently a TRAIL Academic Fellow at National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and an advisory-board member serving the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law advisory board, which is affiliated with the University of Vienna. Since 2016, he has held a panelist position for the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC).

Professor Lee has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune, and South China Morning Post as an expert on intellectual property and internet law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, the US Patent and Trademark Office, the US Copyright Office, the US International Trade Commission, and the WTO dispute-settlement panel.

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.

Xing Liu, Assistant Professor of Finance, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance.  

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).

Professor María Luisa Mena Durán is an Assistant Professor of Private Law at Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera and a specialist in the legal implications of emerging technologies. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and a Master’s in Transnational Law from King’s College London. Her research focuses on algorithmic contracting, AI regulation, and the intersection between law and technology. She coordinates the interdisciplinary project Law in the Digital Age at UCH CEU and teaches modules on artificial intelligence at ESADE, IE, and Lex Latin. With over 25 years of professional experience, she combines academic work with legal consultancy in digital regulation. She has presented her research at institutions such as Oxford, Humboldt, Bologna, and King’s College London, and has published in journals including Aranzadi, EuCML, and Derecho Digital e Innovación. She received the British Spanish Society – Cuatrecasas Award (2022), the Ángel Herrera Award (2024), and was named Associate of King’s College London in 2025.

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).

Chattrika Napatanapong is currently serving as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. She previously held the position of Researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation. She obtained both her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Thammasat University, with the latter earning her the Distinguished Thesis Award in 2020. She is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Procedure at Chulalongkorn University. In addition to her academic pursuits, she has been awarded a certification in Personal Data Protection Law for Practitioners in Government Agencies and Business Organizations. Her academic interests focus on criminal justice reform, human rights, and data protection.

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.).

Jasmine Wan is a penultimate year Law student on the English and Hong Kong Law LLB and JD programme with King’s College London and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She demonstrates a strong academic foundation having earned a full tuition scholarship under the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme provided by the Government, and is ranked within the top 25 of her cohort on the JD programme. During her time at university, Jasmine developed a passion for legal and regulatory compliance in the area of FinTech and innovation, through studying the module Digital Technology and the Law taught by Professor Steven Gallagher at CUHK. Jasmine is keen on honing her knowledge and skills on this area through studying at CUHK, and is excited to have the opportunity to present at the Conference

Jingyi Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Jingyi’s research interests include tax law, fiscal policy, corporate governance and social-legal studies. Her recent work examines tax law reform in China, the taxation of cryptocurrencies, Hong Kong tax policies and law enforcement in China. Her scholarly works have appeared or are forthcoming in prominent academic journals such as Florida Tax Review, British Tax Review, Australia Tax Forum, Journal of Corporate Legal Studies, Journal of International Economic Law, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, China Quarterly, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Criminology, Hong Kong Law Journal and Asia Pacific Law Review.

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.

Michael Dong Wang is a Juris Doctor candidate at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Law and Economics, Behavioural Finance, Machine Learning Applications, and Textual Analysis.

WANG Zelin is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in the intersection of tort law and technology laws. Her doctoral research examines China’s regulatory framework for minors’ online safety, with particular focus on the implementation challenges and systemic gaps in the Online Games Anti-Addiction System. Based on the multi-stakeholder analytical lens, her work investigates the dynamic interplay between legal frameworks, technology platforms, and parental rights in digital child protection. This thesis provides an overview of Chinese regulations for online games, introducing China’s regulatory model embodies a flow of responsibility.

EDUCATION
 Juris Master, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2023.
 Bachelor of Management, Renmin University of China, China, 2020.

Anqi Wang is a second-year PhD candidate in law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the conceptual distinctions between privacy and data protection, particularly how legal frameworks respond to shifts in digital architecture. At this conference, she will present a paper that has been accepted for publication by the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, which analyzes the evolving relationship between privacy and data protection from both theoretical and regulatory perspectives.

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.

Ramsi Woodcock is Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, where he writes on law and economics from a wealth-distributive perspective, particularly in relation to antitrust law. He is a proponent of the “inframarginalist” approach to law and economics, which leverages neoclassical economic theory to advocate for radical redistribution of wealth. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Yale College with distinction in Philosophy and practiced antitrust law at WilmerHale in Washington, DC, before becoming a scholar.

Dr. Yueming Yan is an Assistant Professor at CUHK Faculty of Law. She also serves as an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Asia-Pacific Interest Group and a Senior Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Law School. Yueming has published in leading journals such as the JIEL, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, ICSID Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, and the Melbourne Journal of International Law.

Yueming received the JIEL Excellence in Reviewing Award in 2023. Her PhD dissertation – Improving international investment law’s treatment of (anti-) corruption: Towards a more balanced approach – was granted the Award on International Investment Arbitration Law in memory of Piero Bernardini in 2022.

Yueming holds a PhD in Law from McGill University Faculty of Law. She is a native Mandarin speaker, fluent in English, and conversational in French.

Ms. Qian YIN is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in IP law, the interaction between IP and international investment and trade law, and Legal issues related to data privacy. Her works have been published in journals (such as the International Data Privacy Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, the Journal of World Trade and the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy).

Ron is the Director and Co-founder of legaltech AI start-up Makebell Limited, that offers legal document management, patent prosecution and commercialization, translation and more.. He is also involved with TenMeTalk, an initiative using AI to help mitigate the problem of loneliness among Hong Kong’s elderly.

He taught university postgraduate classes on Regulation Technology, Patent law and Commercialization of Intellectual Property Law at Chinese U, Peking U and City U respectively.

A mechanical engineer by training, he holds multiple post graduate law degrees, was a computer forensics examiner and is a co-inventor on patents in EdTech, AI and Tokenization of IP.
He has been an advisor to the WIPO Green initiative of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Jiawei Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate and research fellow at the Technical University of Munich. He is also a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Jiawei holds an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford on a full scholarship and an LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley Law School. His research interests include information technology law, digital competition law, AI governance, and comparative policy study of various jurisdictions.

Jiawei’s scholarly writings have been recognized by leading U.S. law journals, including Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT), Stanford Law & Policy Review Online, North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, and The Regulatory Review In Depth. Jiawei has been invited to present his research at various leading institutes, including the European University Institute, Max Planck Institute, KU Leuven, Leiden University, Oxford University, HKU, CityUHK, and Harvard Law School.