16 May 2025 Yesim Elhan - Kayalar, Jens-Uwe Franck, Kazuhiko Fuchikawa, Ju Heng, Liyang Hou, Timothy Paul Ker, Eun Hye Kim, Adrian Kuenzler, Kelvin Kwok, Sangyun Lee, Liang Li, Ioannis Lianos, Katrina Margarita Lopez, Stavros Makris, Payal Malik, Sandra Marco Colino, Julian Nowag, Caleb Tan, Masako Wakui, Peicheng Wu

The Singular Role of Public Pension Funds in Corporate Governance

2 May 2025 Jill E. Fisch, Ernest Lim, Emily Lee

Corporate Purpose, Competition Law, and the Regulation of Corporate Power

2 May 2025 Wendy Ng, Ernest Lim, Thomas Cheng

Book Launch: Hong Kong Private International Law

29 April 2025 Anselmo Reyes, Wilson Lui

Staff Seminar: Experiences on the Process of Publishing in U.S. Law Reviews

29 April 2025 Jill E. Fisch, Emily Lee

Taxation and Climate Change

9 April 2025 Archie Parnell, Richard Cullen

The Creditor Modified Duty in Hong Kong after Sequana and Foo

3 April 2025 Eilis Ferran, Say Goo

Reconciling Shareholder Primacy and the Interests of People and Planet

1 April 2025 Eilis Ferran, Say Goo

Shifting Sands: Power and Resistance in Landlord-Tenant Relationships Under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954

20 March 2025 Emily Carroll, Kelvin Low

LawtoData: An App for Automating Empirical Legal Research

17 March 2025 Ben Chen, Say Goo

Why International Cooperation on Competition Has to be Modernized?

26 February 2025 Frédéric Jenny, Thomas Cheng

Safeguarding Biodiversity: Unveiling Corporate Governance’s Silent Challenge

24 February 2025 Marco Corradi, Julian Nowag

Reassessing the End of History: Directors’ Duties and Shareholders’ Rights in Comparative Context

18 February 2025 Camden Hutchison, Stefan HC Lo, Sida Liu

Book Talk: On Privacy and Technology

12 February 2025 Daniel Solove

The Role of Economic Incentives within the Law: the Case of Cartel Fines

10 February 2025 Sean Ennis, Adrian Kuenzler

US Insider Trading Regulation

13 December 2024 Marc I. Steinberg, Douglas Arner

Combatting Collusion and Corruption in Public Procurement: A Challenge for Government’s Worldwide

25 November 2024 Alison Jones, Thomas Cheng

Notable Public Lecture: Hong Kong as an International Insolvency Hub

25 November 2024 Linda Chan, Geoffrey Ma, GBM

The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence

20 November 2024 Thomas Cheng, Ernest Lim, Anselmo Reyes, Godfrey Lam, Emily Lee

HKU Law & UNIDROIT Day

6 November 2024 Shahla Ali, Anna Veneziano, William Brydie-Watson, Giuliano Castellano

Forfeiture and Shortfall Claims

4 November 2024 Adrian But, Alwin Chan

Lessons from a Malaysian Company Law Case

1 November 2024 Philip TN Koh, Say Goo

Book Talk: The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy

16 October 2024 Ignacio Cofone

The Global Minimum Taxation (GloBE)

10 October 2024 Martin Wenz, Richard Cullen

Future Challenges for Professionals and their Insurers

2 October 2024 Gary Meggitt, Jedidiah Kroncke

The Pillar Two Model Rules: Ensuring Minimum Taxation for Multinational Enterprises

25 September 2024 Stefano Grilli, Richard Cullen

Cross-border Data Transfer: Key Takeaways from the European Commission’s Adequacy Decision for Korea (2021) and the Data Privacy Framework for the US (2023)

23 September 2024 Min Kyung Kim, Alexander Loke, Emily Lee

The 4th Asia Pacific Private Law Conference

8 July 2024

Antitrust Remedies for Digital Platforms

4 June 2024 Felix B. Chang, Kelvin Kwok

Blockchain Regulation and Governance in Europe

20 February 2024 Michèle Finck, Emily Lee

Future Law Innovation Programme: Lawtech and the Development of Legal Education in Singapore

2 February 2024 Paul Neo, Ernest Lim, Emily Lee

Open Finance, AI and Data Quality

30 January 2024 Konrad Borowicz, Giuliano Castellano

Strategic Incentives for Adopting the Global Minimum Tax

26 January 2024 Wei Cui, Richard Cullen

Coherence between Data Protection and Competition Law in Digital Markets

18 January 2024 Klaudia Majcher, Kelvin Kwok

The Role of Technology and Law in Cross-Border Trade: Substantive and Procedural Issues

20 December 2023

The Quiet Revolution: Foreign Ownership and Corporate Governance

13 December 2023 Merritt B. Fox, Say Goo

The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy

11 December 2023 Merritt B. Fox, Say Goo

Rethinking Securities Law

1 December 2023 Marc I. Steinberg, Douglas Arner

Deposit Insurance in the Aftermath of Recent Bank Failures

16 November 2023 Andrew Fei, Mark W.H. Hsiao, Jeremy Hui Jing

Trusts in the Courts – a Period of Constant Change?

13 November 2023 David Brownbill KC, Lusina Ho

The Return of Interference in Sovereign Affairs and International Law

9 November 2023 Frédéric Mégret, Kuzi Charamba

How Should Central Banks Explore CBDC

6 November 2023 Dong He, Douglas Arner, Heiwai Tang

Should HK Follow NZ’s Decision to Implement a DST?

1 November 2023 Adrian Sawyer, Richard Cullen

AIIFL Supported: Insolvency Law and Reform in the Aftermath of the Global Pandemic: Recent Developments in Hawaii, the United States and Asia

26 October 2023

The Evolution of Commercial Dispute Resolution Clauses in the International Commercial, Financial and Investment Contracts of China’s Enterprises – a Forward Look

18 October 2023 Douglas Arner, William Blair, Wesley Pang, Weixia Gu, Shahla Ali

UN Role in International Tax Order: Past, Present and Future

4 October 2023 Muhammad Ashfaq Ahmed, Richard Cullen

Virtual Banking and Beyond

27 September 2023 Sally Chen, Emily Lee

The Law of Loyalty

15 September 2023 Lionel Smith, Lusina Ho

Breaking Away

14 September 2023 Maurice Stucke, Kelvin Kwok

Access to Sustainable Finance: The Impact of Private International Law

14 September 2023 Gérardine Goh Escolar, Emily Lee

Land Options for Housing: How New Property Rights Can Break Old Land Monopolies?

12 June 2023 Shitong Qiao, Alwin Chan

The Strength of Bad Ties: Modeling Tying Caselaw Since the Sherman Act

23 May 2023 Felix B. Chang, Ryan Whalen

The Future of High-Cost Credit: Rethinking Payday Lending

12 May 2023 Jodi Gardner, Kelvin Kwok

The Cross-Border Insolvency Cooperation between Mainland China and HKSAR: Is the Arrangement Enough and Why?

3 May 2023 Jingxia Shi, Emily Lee

AI in Insurance: A New Regulatory Focus

28 April 2023 Jan Buschmann, Gary Meggitt

The Government Shareholder as a Fiduciary: Implications for ESG Management

21 April 2023 Ernest Lim, Anthony Neoh KC, SP, JP, Emily Lee

The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State

14 April 2023 Wei Cui, Richard Cullen

The Public Revenue Regime in Hong Kong: Land & Housing

13 April 2023 Richard Cullen, Xiaojing Cui

Global Minimum Tax Reform and the Future of Tax Competition

15 March 2023 Jeremy Jingxian Chen, Richard Cullen

Global Minimum Tax Reform and China

15 March 2023 Xiaojing Cui, Richard Cullen

Metaverse in China

7 March 2023 Oriol Caudevilla, Ajay Shamdasani

The Covid 19 Pandemic and Business Interruption Insurance (BII)

28 February 2023 Gary Meggitt, Kelvin Kwok

Regulation and Innovation – Where Does the Balance Lie for Crypto?

15 February 2023 Alexa Lam, JP, Jay Luo

Comparative Law

1 February 2023 Jedidiah Kroncke, Emily Lee

Contractual Estoppel: A First Look at First Tower Trustees in Hong Kong

5 January 2023 Lau Kwan Ho, Lusina Ho

Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence

13 December 2022 Despoina Mantzari, Kelvin Kwok

Patent Licensing in IoT – SEPs and Patent Pools

13 December 2022 Sven Törringer, LL.M, Thomas Cheng

The Future of Financial Centers

29 November 2022 Jochen Biedermann, Douglas Arner, Tak-Wah Lam, Heiwai Tang

The Changing Landscape of Inbound and Outbound Investment to and from HK: Taxation Implications for Investors and Corporate Entities

25 August 2022 Sarah Hinchliffe, Richard Cullen

The Future of Tax Jurisdiction

22 June 2022 Miranda Stewart, Richard Cullen

Hong Kong Competition Law: Comparative and Theoretical Perspective

28 April 2022 Thomas Cheng, Kelvin Kwok

Why Privacy Matters

26 April 2022 Neil Richards

Understanding the Momentous Mainland-HK Cross-Border Insolvency Arrangement

21 April 2022 Wee Meng Seng, Emily Lee

Blockchain Asset Registries-Freeing Crypto from Mania

12 April 2022 Kelvin Low, Ryan Whalen, Emily Lee

Protecting Policy Holders’ Interests in Health Insurance

31 March 2022 Clement Cheung GBS, JP, Anita Katharina Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH, Andreas Alois Reis, Emily Lee, Calvin Wai-Loon Ho

China’s Rising (and the US’ Declining) Influence on Global Tax Governance? Some Observations

3 March 2022 Jinyan Li, Emily Lee, Richard Cullen

Regulating the Crypto Economy

24 February 2022 Iris Chiu, Kelvin Low, Emily Lee, Dora Neo

Reforming Antitrust

24 February 2022 Alan J. Devlin

Creating Equitable Tax Systems: Challenges Posed by Financial Markets

17 February 2022 James Fok, Richard Cullen

Directors’ Duties & Disclosure Obligations under HK Law regarding Climate Change

10 December 2021 Ernest Lim, Christine Lau, Sarah Barker, Alex Bidlake, Emily Lee

Book Talk: Consumer Theories of Harm

30 November 2021 Christine Riefa

Hong Kong and BEPS 2.0

30 November 2021 Adrian Sawyer, Richard Cullen

Regulators’ Perspectives on AI, Technology and Personal Data Protection

22 November 2021 Ada Chung, SBS, Zee Kin Yeong, Arthur Yuen, JP, Emily Lee

A Multilateral Agreement on Carbon Pricing and Implications for Developing Countries

17 November 2021 Yan Xu, Richard Cullen

PSD2 and the Regulation of Data-Based Innovation in Retail Banking: A European Perspective

6 October 2021 Nikita Divissenko, Emily Lee

AI Governance and Open Finance Initiatives

13 September 2021 Mark Findlay, Nydia Remolina - Leon, Emily Lee

Ontogenetic Perspectives: Asia Segment on Cryptoassets

3 September 2021

The Platformization of Finance with Professor Douglas Arner

10 June 2021

Digital Assets in Hong Kong: What are They and How are They Taxed

31 May 2021 Oriol Caudevilla

FinTech and Digitalisation: RegTech and Algo-Trading

20 May 2021

China and the Global Economic Architecture

7 May 2021

Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism

11 March 2021

Digital finance, COVID-19 and existential sustainability crises: building better financial systems

1 February 2021

Security token offerings

11 December 2020 Daniel Liebau, Douglas Arner

Tax Residency, Investment Opportunities Retirement Considerations for the Expat Post COVID-19

9 December 2020 Douglas Arner, Sarah Hinchliffe, Richard Cullen

Financial Inclusion, A Hong Kong Perspective

30 June 2020 Emily Lee

Inhabiting Different Realities: Incrementalism, Paradigms and the New Prospect

29 May 2020

‘Hub-and-spoke’ bid-rigging and corporate attribution under Hong Kong Competition Law

17 March 2020

BEPS 2.0

22 November 2019 Judith Freedman, Adrian Sawyer, Richard Cullen

Rethinking Transnational Law

5 November 2019 Ignacio Tirado

AI: Developments & Legal Implications

1 November 2019 Benjamin Liu

Do Corporate Governance Practices in One Jurisdiction Affect Another One? Lessons from the Panama Papers

14 October 2019

Blockchain, Big Data and International Tax Compliance

19 June 2019 Sarah Hinchliffe

The Social Psychology of Financial Regulatory Governance

11 June 2019

Law’s Great Embarrassment: The Idea of Money Before and After the 4th Industrial Revolution

21 May 2019 Emilios Avgouleas

第六屆兩岸四地財產法論壇

27 April 2019

Obligations of Financial ‘Advisers’ at Common Law: Is My Financial Adviser Advising Me? Does He Have To?

26 April 2019

Requisites for Development of a Regulated Secondary Market in Digital Assets

26 April 2019

Consumer Protection for Insurance Services: Evaluating Hong Kong’s Sector-specific Approach

6 March 2019 Victor Hung

The Incomplete Global Financial Order and Spillovers from Instability in Trade and Currency Market Regimes

25 January 2019

The Value of the Corporate Governance Canon on Chinese Companies

19 January 2019

Regulating Cryptographic Consensus Technology: Oxymoron or Necessity?

8 October 2018

A Red Flag for the Licensing Regime (A Postscript to ‘A Red Flag for Hong Kong Credit Ratings’)

1 July 2018

Investments, Pensions, and Strategic Planning – Taxation Opportunities and Traps for Hong Kong Residents and Expats

12 June 2018 Sarah Hinchliffe

ICOs: Moving Forward on Best Practices

24 March 2018

So Sue Me! Re-discovery of Patent Value through Litigation | An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining Power in Licensing Contract Terms

9 February 2018 Alan Kwan, Thomas Cheng, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Ryan Whalen

The Whack-A-Mole Game: Tobin Tax and Trading Frenzy

25 January 2018 Wenxi Jiang

Misconceptions of Interest Benchmark Misconduct

2 January 2018

Three Major Financial Crises: What Have We Learned

1 January 2018

What Explains Corporate Governance Regimes in China?

24 November 2017 Yu-Hsin Lin

The Impact of Xi’s Anti-corruption Campaign on Politically Connected Listed Companies

10 November 2017 Bei Qin, Jiangnan Zhu

The Case for the Extra-Territorial Application of Corporate Governance Standards in China

1 November 2017

Moving Forward on Listing Reform

22 October 2017

Expats & Professionals in Greater China: Retirement Planning Opportunities & Challenges

13 June 2017 Sarah Hinchliffe

Hong Kong’s Involvement with International Tax Reform: What’s the ‘BEPS’?

June 2017

Innovation in Financial Law and Systems (A Conference in Honour of Professor Joseph J. Norton – Part 2)

5 May 2017 Joseph J. Norton (✞)

第五届财产法论坛

22 April 2017

Hong Kong’s Involvement with International Tax Reform: What’s the ‘BEPS’?

30 March 2017 Adrian Sawyer

Risk, New “Modes of Information,” and the Informational Complexities of Asset-Backed Securities, Banks, and Corporations

13 March 2017 Henry T.C. Hu

An Update on Hong Kong’s Exchange of Information Developments and Engaging with BEPS

18 November 2016 Adrian Sawyer

Understanding Cross-Border Insolvency in the Hong Kong Context

17 November 2016 The Hon Mr Justice Jonathan Harris

Shareholder Engagement and Activism in Hong Kong

11 November 2016

A Principles-based Response to the Proposed Reform of the Governance Structure for Listing Regulation in Hong Kong

11 November 2016

Hard Corporate Governance Law in a Soft Law Jurisdiction

1 November 2016

An Update on Hong Kong’s Exchange of Information Developments and Engaging with BEPS

November 2016

A Red Flag for Hong Kong Credit Ratings

July 2016

Are Trusts Still a Strategic Investment Vehicle for Clients?

7 June 2016 Sarah Hinchliffe

Securitisation and Post-Crisis Financial Regulation

2 June 2016 Steven L. Schwarcz

Innovation in Financial Law and Systems (A Conference in Honour of Professor Joseph J. Norton – Part 1)

5 May 2016 Joseph J. Norton (✞)

第四屆兩岸四地金融法論壇: 主題: 一帶一路對金融法帶來的挑戰與機遇

16 April 2016

Joint CFRED – TLRP Tax Seminar: Tax Concessions Granted To Charities – An International Comparison

1 April 2016 Fiona Martin, Yan Xu

Transnational Tax Law: Fiction or Reality, Future or Now?

23 March 2016 Miranda Stewart

The Taxation of Trusts in Hong Kong

2 December 2015 Stefano Mariani

Finance in Asia: Regulating Regional Markets

6 November 2015

Renovating the Hong Kong Revenue Regime: The Local, Cross-Border & International Contexts

31 October 2015 Adrian Sawyer, Nolan Sharkey, Wilson Chow, Richard Cullen, Xin Li, Bin Yang, Yansheng Zhu, Doreen Qiu

Unlocking Value in the PRC: Chinese Restructuring and its Cross-Border Implications

23 October 2015

Tax Hot Topics Affecting Dual Residents

20 August 2015 Sarah Hinchliffe

IPO Sponsors and Prospectus Liability: The Bridge Too Far?

August 2015

Insurance Law and Practice

3 June 2015 John Lowry, Robert Merkin, KC, Martin Lister, Allan Yu, Gary Meggitt

HKIMR-HKU International Conference on Finance, Institutions and Economic Growth

22 May 2015

第三届两岸四地金融法论坛

18 April 2015

US-China Legal Summit

2 March 2015

Legislation by Press Release: Hong Kong’s New Stamp Duties – Why & How They Work

8 January 2015 Jianlin Chen

From Felixstowe to Hong Kong / Taxation of International Sports Stars and Entertainers

18 December 2014 Philip Baker QC, Patrick Way QC

Unfair Terms, Suretyships and EU Harmonisation: A Crucible of Europeanised Private Law?

1 December 2014 James Devenney

Lehman Brothers’ Cross-border Insolvency

21 November 2014 Edward Middleton

Legal Valuation in Chinese Tax Law

5 November 2014 Xiaoqiang Yang

Taxation and Residency Requirements in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States – An International Update in 2014 for Individuals, and Corporate Entities

12 June 2014 Sarah Hinchliffe

International Symposium on Corporate Governance and Financial Supervision

8 May 2014

Business Tax: Public Debate and Future Trends

24 March 2014 Judith Freedman

Last of the Tai-Pans: Improving the Sustainability of Long-Term Financial Flows by Improving Hong Kong’s Corporate Governance

November 2013

Feeling the Heat: Will Hong Kong Succumb to International Pressure for Enhanced Transparency, Cooperation and Information Exchange on Taxation Matters?

July 2013

The Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment by State-owned Enterprises in Canada

June 2013

论金融消费者权益的保护: An Analysis of the Protection of Financial Consumer’s Rights and Interests

May 2013

Eurozone Banking Union and the EU Single Market – Differentiated Integration or Steps Towards Disintegration?

17 April 2013 Eilis Ferran

2013 Workshop on Harmonizing Cross-Strait Financial Regulations

13 April 2013

從比較法之觀點論跨國企業集團之破產法制: The Bankruptcy Regulation of Multinational Enterprise Group: From a Comparative Analysis

April 2013

Electricity Regulation in the United States

April 2013

Electricity Regulation in the United Kingdom

April 2013

Electricity Regulation in Germany

April 2013

Electricity Regulation in Australia

April 2013

Insolvency Practice in Hong Kong: Reform, Regulation, and Professional Standards

9 November 2012 Stephen Briscoe

For Diversity in the International Regulation of Financial Institutions: Rethinking the Basel Architecture

4 June 2012 Roberta Romano

Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Reinvention of the State

17 November 2011 John Farrar, Anthony Neoh KC, SP, JP

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Developing Double Tax Agreement Regime: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region-New Zealand Double Tax Agreement

September 2011

The Global Financial Crisis and the Financial Stability Board: Hardening the Soft Law of International Financial Regulation?

2 July 2009

Assessing East Asian Financial Cooperation and Integration

March 2009

The Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Financial Regulation in Hong Kong

1 February 2009

The Global Credit Crisis of 2008: Causes and Consequences

1 January 2009

Securitisation in East Asia

January 2008

Proportionality and balancing in WTO law: a comparative perspective

22 May 2007

Developments in Consumer Bankruptcy: A Comparative Look

23 March 2005 William Whitford, Charles D. Booth, Eamonn O’Connell

Financial Regulation and the WTO: Liberalization and Restructuring in China Two Years Post-accession

January 2004

Breakdown in Executive Accountability: Corporate Governance Defects Behind the Enron and Other Corporate Scandals

27 November 2003 Robert Art

Equity and Good Faith in Contract Performance: Hong Kong and Australia Compared

24 November 2003

The Transatlantic Divide: Development and Security

17 October 2003 Thomas C. Heller

Recent Developments in International Insolvency

17 April 2002 Ian Fletcher (✞)

Intermediary Risk in Global Financial Markets

12 March 2002 Steven L. Schwarcz

How Hong Kong could Reposition itself as a Regional and International Financial Centre in View of China’s Imminent Accession to the WTO?: An External Perspective

10 November 2000 Rolf H. Weber

Secondary Liability of Financial Institutions for the Fraud of Third Parties

15 February 2000 William Blair

Thinking New Thoughts on Corporate Governance

3 November 1999 John Farrar

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