Conferences & Workshops

18 October 2019
Law and Economics Workshop Series: Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance? | Professor Yun-chien Chang, Research Professor & Director of Center for Empirical Legal Studies, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

24 September 2019
Law and Economics Workshop Series: The US-China Trade Negotiation: A Contract Theory Perspective | Dr Angela Zhang, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Chinese Law, Faculty of Law, HKU | Commentator: Professor Zhiwu Chen, Director, Asia Global Institute and Victor and William Fung Professor in Economics, HKU

18 July 2019
Law and Economics Workshop Series: Judging Around the World: Experimental, Clickstream, and Writing Evidence from the Lab | Professor Holger Spamann, Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

15 July 2019
Challenges and Opportunities for International Commercial Arbitration and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the Asia-Pacific Region | A symposium organised by AIIFL and the University of Sydney Law School

21 June 2019
FinTech in Africa Conference 2019 II: Financial Inclusion and FinTech Adoption in Emerging Markets | Jointly organized/attended by the South African Consulate General, the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, Paxful, Africa Works Ventures, the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, HKU FinTech, and WHub

24 May 2019
HKU FinTech Conference: Market Developments and Regulations

7 May 2019
FinTech in Africa Conference 2019 – Hong Kong | Hong Kong’s first conference on FinTech in Africa – a collaboration of the South African Consulate General, the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, Acorus Capital and the Asian Institute of International Financial Law

27-28 April 2019
第六屆兩岸四地財產法論壇: 中國農村土地管理法的檢討
(The 6th Cross-Strait Property Law Forum) | Asian Institute of International Financial Law’s forum this year focused on the evaluation of Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China, discussing the 40 land law Greater China Region scholars’ insights into rural land legal system and rural land reform in mainland China, and the impact of the Civil Code’s chapter on property rights on rural land, land law in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

20 February 2019
Law and Economics Workshop Series: Rethinking Law School Tenure Standards | Kyle Rozema, Wachtell Lipton Fellow in Behavioral Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School

24 November 2018
The Secondary Market for Cryptos and Other Digital Assets: Regulatory and Technical Issues

15 October 2018
AIIFL is one of the supporting organisations of the full-day Forum-cum-Dialogue on infrastructure financing under the Belt & Road Initiative organised by the Asia-Pacific Structured Finance Association (APSA) and the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB)

3 July 2018
Law and Economics Workshop Series: Rules and Standards: An Experiment

9-10 June 2018
Banking and Financial Markets Workshop: Taiwan Financial Sectors and Belt and Road Initiative

24 May 2018
Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis

24 March 2018
ICOs: Moving Forward on Best Practices

21 March 2018
Law and Economic Workshop Series: Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex-Ante Litigation Risk

9 February 2018
Law and Economic Workshop Series: An Empirical Analysis of Bargaining Power in Licensing Contract Terms / So Sue Me! Re-discovery of Patent Value through Litigation

25 January 2018
Law and Economic Workshop Series: The Whack-A-Mole Game: Tobin Tax and Trading Frenzy

23 January 2018
Asian Financial Law Conference

24 November 2017
Law and Economic Workshop Series: What Explains Corporate Governance Regimes in China?

10 November 2017
Law and Economic Workshop Series: The Impact of Xi’s Anti-corruption Campaign on Politically Connected Listed Companies

26 October 2017
FinTech and Data Ownership: Legal Issues of Digital Business Models

16 October 2017
Insurance Law and Practice: Challenges and Opportunities

5 May 2017
Colloquium (Part II) “Innovations in Financial Law and Systems”: A Tribute to Professor Joseph J. Norton held at SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, Texas, USA

22 April 2017
第五屆財產法論壇在河南大學法學院舉行 (The 5th Cross-Strait Financial Law Forum held at Henan University, China)

13 March 2017
AIIFL supported the HKSAR Companies Registry’s Corporate Governance Roundtable

11 November 2016
Shareholder Engagement and Activism in Hong Kong

7 November 2016
FINNOVASIA Academy Workshop on “The Future of FinTech in China”

1-2 September 2016
China’s Identity in International Law

16-17 July 2016
The International Bar Association Law Students’ Committee Mid-Year Conference Hong Kong 2016:
Financial and Corporate Law in Asia

24-25 June 2016
Journal of Financial Regulation 2016 Annual Conference: Integration and Interconnectedness in Global Finance

5-6 May 2016
Innovation in Financial Law and Systems: A Conference in Honour of Professor Joseph J. Norton

2016年4月16-17日
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 (The fourth Cross Strait Financial Law Forum: One Belt One Road and the Opportunities and Challenges for Financial Law, 16-17 April 2016)

Finance in Asia: Regulating Regional Markets, 6 November 2015

Renovating the Hong Kong Revenue Regime: The Local, Cross-border and International Contexts, 31 October 2015

Unlocking Value in the PRC: Chinese Restructuring and its Cross-Border Implications, 23 October 2015

Insurance Law and Practice 2015, 3 June 2015

2nd Annual Symposium on EU-Asia Relations in Financial Services, 27-29 May 2015, Hong Kong

HKIMR-HKU International Conference on Finance, Institutions and Economic Growth, 22 May 2015

US-China Legal Summit, 2 March 2015

The 15th Annual International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot (IMLAM) 2014 was hosted by the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL), The University of Hong Kong, 4-8 July 2014

For more information about the IMLAM moot: Link

Information Background

Conference Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation, 13-14 December 2013 | Cambridge University Press link to the 2017 book edited by Ross P. Buckley (University of New South Wales, Sydney), Emilios Avgouleas (University of Edinburgh) and Douglas W. Arner (The University of Hong Kong)

Conference Hong Kong Insurance Law and Practice, 6 June 2013

Workshop on Harmonizing Cross-Strait Financial Regulations, 13 April 2013

AIIFL and CLLC Training Centre Workshop Essential Workshop for Banking, Insurance & Dispute Resolution Professionals: Mastering Negotiation, Dispute & Complaint Handling Skills and Getting Ready for the Launch of the Financial Dispute Resolution Centre (“FDRC”), 10 March 2012

Taxation Law Research Programme (TLRP) in conjunction with WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) jointly organized the Third TLRP International Conference The European Union and Greater China: Understanding the Fundamentals of the New Taxation Relationship, 25 February 2012

Conference Legal Issues in Fund Distribution co-hosted with University of Luxembourgon, 8 December, 2011

Baker & McKenzie and The University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) and the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) jointly organised a Symposium Environmental Markets: A New Frontier for Asia?, 4 November 2011

Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Conference 2011 The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and the Post-Crisis International Economic Law Environment, 15-16 July 2011

Hong Kong Insurance Law Association (HKILA) Inaugural Conference The Future of Hong Kong Insurance Law, 16 June 2011

TFCTN/EAIEL/AIIFL Workshop Present at the Beginning: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement, 25 February 2011

TLRP/AIIFL and Civic Exchange 2nd International Conference Green Taxation in East Asia: Problems and Prospects, 29 January 2010

AIIFL and the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law, The William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa jointly organised a Symposium Corporate Rescue in Hong Kong: The Government’s 2009 Legislative Proposals, 22 January 2010

Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University and AIIFL Colloquium Current Issues in Financial Regulation, 12 January 2010

AIIFL co-organised a Symposium on The Convergence of Property Rights among Mainland, Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong with HKU Department of Real Estate & Construction, 2-3 August 2009

AIIFL co-sponsored, with the National Law School of India, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Southern Methodist University, a Conference The Elephant and the Dragon – Lessons and Challenges respecting the Role of Law in Economic Development in India and China, 7-9 May 2008 held at National Law School of India, Bangalore, India

AIIFL and the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law, The William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa jointly organised a Symposium The PRC 2006 Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: A New Beginning?, 25 March 2008

AIIFL and the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law, The William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa jointly organised a Symposium Entrepreneurialism, Risk Assessment & Private Investment in China, 18 October 2007

AIIFL co-hosted The Asset Forum in association with Asian Development Bank roundtable on Securitization: The Next Wave at the Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong, 18 April 2007

Negotiation Workshop, conducted by Mr. David Newton, Managing Director, The Accord Group, Australia and Professor David Sandborg, HKU Faculty of Law, 7 and 9 February 2007

AIIFL is co-sponsoring Risky Business? Corporate Governance in Asia 2006 Conference with CSR-Asia, 25-26 September 2006

The Hong Kong America Center in association with AIIFL organised American Corporate Governance: Implications for Asia Conference, 6-8 June 2006 at the City University of Hong Kong

AIIFL co-sponsored Basel II Forum – 2007 and Beyond. The Forum was organized by Key Media International and was held in Hong Kong, 13-14 October 2005 at the Hong Kong Jockey Club

AIIFL co-hosted an International Conference on Law, Culture and Financial Sector Development as part of the International Forum Series of the London Forum for International Economic Law and Development. The Forum was held at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China, 14 May 2005

AIIFL and Hong Kong Society of Accountants (HKSA) jointly organised a Conference Cross-Border Restructuring: Hong Kong, Mainland China and the Region, 22 November 2003

AIIFL and the Milken Institute jointly organized Asian Bond Market Forum, 11-14 November 2003

AIIFL and the HKU Centre for Criminology jointly held a Conference The Continuing Fight Against Organized Financial Crime in Hong Kong, 15 February 2003

Corporate Rescue in China: Chinese and Comparative Perspectives, 7 October 2002

London Summer Programme in International Banking and Financial Law, 6-13 June 2002

Enhancing the Governance of Listed Companies, 13 May 2002

Securitisation in Asia: Developments and Outlook, 13 March 2002

The Future of Financial Regulation in Taiwan, 6-7 July 2001

Current Issues in Financial Regulation, 9 July 2001

Chinese Insolvency Law Symposium: Developing an Insolvency Infrastructure, 17-18 November 2000