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Professor Douglas Arner

Affiliation Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Research Areas Financial, Banking and Insurance Law; WTO, Trade and International Economic Law; Regulation and Development; Corporate and Financial Law; Regulation and Compliance; FinTech and RegTech
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  1. The RegTech Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries in Regulation (J. Wiley 2019) (co-editor). 2019
  2. Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years after the Great Crash (McGill University Press / Centre for International Governance Innovation 2019) (co-editor). 2019
  3. Handbook of Asian Financial Regulation(Edward Elgar 2019) (co-editor). 2019
  4. Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice(Oxford University Press, 2d ed., 2016) (co-author). 2016
  5. Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation(Cambridge University Press 2016) (co-editor). 2016
  6. Finance in Asia: Institutions, Regulation and Policy(Routledge 2013) (co-author). 2013
  7. Finance in Asia: A Collection of Major Works(Routledge 2013) (4 vols, co-editor). 2013
  8. From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial System and Regulatory Failure (Kluwer 2011, co-author) 2011
  9. East Asian Economic Integration: Law, Trade and Finance (Edward Elgar 2011, co-editor) 2011
  10. International Economic Law – The State and Future of the Discipline (Hart Publishing 2008, co-editor) 2008
  11. Financial Stability, Economic Growth, and the Role of Law (Cambridge University Press 2007) 2007
  12. Project Finance for Construction and Infrastructure: Principles and Case Studies (Blackwell 2007, co-author) 2007
  13. Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press 2006, co-author) 2006
  14. Asia’s Debt Capital Markets: Prospects and Strategies for Development (Springer 2006, co-editor) 2006
  15. Financial Restructuring and Reform in Post-WTO China (Kluwer 2006, co-editor) 2006
  16. Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform (Sweet & Maxwell 2003, co-editor) 2003
  17. Development (Kluwer 2002, co-editor) 2002
  18. Financial Crises in the 1990s: A Global Perspective (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2001, co-editor) 2001
  19. Professor Arner’s  articles have appeared in a wide range of international venues, including European, North American and Asia-Pacific legal and social… Read more
  1. US Insider Trading Regulation
    AIIFL Lectures & Seminars
    As CHAIR with Professor Marc I. Steinberg (Speaker) Recording
  2. Rethinking Securities Law
    As CHAIR with Professor Marc I. Steinberg (Speaker) Recording
  3. How Should Central Banks Explore CBDC
    As PANELIST with Dr. Dong He (Speaker)
  4. The Evolution of Commercial Dispute Resolution Clauses in the International Commercial, Financial and Investment Contracts of China’s Enterprises – a Forward Look
    As OPENING REMARKS with William Blair (Speaker), Wesley Pang (Speaker), Professor Weixia Gu (Speaker)
  5. The Future of Financial Centers
    As CHAIR with Dr. Jochen Biedermann (Speaker), Professor Tak-Wah Lam (Chair) Recording
  6. Security token offerings
    AIIFL Lectures & Seminars
    As CHAIR with Daniel Liebau (Speaker) Recording
  7. Tax Residency, Investment Opportunities Retirement Considerations for the Expat Post COVID-19
    Peter Willoughby Memorial Lecture
    As INTRODUCTION with Dr. Sarah Hinchliffe (Speaker), Adjunct Professor Richard Cullen (Chair) Recording
  1. Three Major Financial Crises: What Have We Learned
    AIIFL Working Paper
  2. Moving Forward on Listing Reform
    AIIFL Working Paper
  3. A Principles-based Response to the Proposed Reform of the Governance Structure for Listing Regulation in Hong Kong
    AIIFL Working Paper
  4. The Global Financial Crisis and the Financial Stability Board: Hardening the Soft Law of International Financial Regulation?
    AIIFL Working Paper
  5. Assessing East Asian Financial Cooperation and Integration
    AIIFL Working Paper
  6. The Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Financial Regulation in Hong Kong
    AIIFL Working Paper
  7. The Global Credit Crisis of 2008: Causes and Consequences
    AIIFL Working Paper
  8. Financial Regulation and the WTO: Liberalization and Restructuring in China Two Years Post-accession
    AIIFL Working Paper
  9. Policymakers, BigFintechs and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  10. BigFintechs & Sustainability: A necessary convergence
    Recording
  11. BigFintechs and international governance, policymaking and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: the SDGs in the international governance of finance
  12. AFI Innovative Regulatory Approaches Toolkit
    Publications
  13. FinTech and Digitalisation: RegTech and Algo-Trading
  14. Reshaping the Design of Money
    Publications
  15. Digital finance, COVID-19 and existential sustainability crises: building better financial systems
    AIIFL Working Paper
  16. Integration & Interconnectedness in Global Finance (Journal of Financial Regulation 2016 Annual Conference)
  17. Financial and Corporate Law in Asia
    AIIFL Conference
  18. Innovation in Financial Law and Systems (A Conference in Honour of Professor Joseph J. Norton – Part 2)
  19. ICOs: Moving Forward on Best Practices
  20. Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre
  21. Central Bank Digital Currencies – CBDCs 2.0
  22. China and the Global Economic Architecture
    Publications
  23. Property Rights, Collateral and Creditor Rights in East Asia
  24. Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform
  25. Financial crises in the 1990s : a global perspective
  26. Three Decades of International Financial Crises: What Have We Learned and What Still Needs to be Done?
    Publications
  27. Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice
    Publications
  28. International Financial Sector Reform
  29. Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law
  30. Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law
    Publications
  31. Financial Restructuring and Reform in Post-WTO China
    Publications
  32. Asia’s Debt Capital Markets: Prospects and Strategies for Development
  33. The Case for a Best Execution Principle in Cross-border Payments
    Publications
  34. Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Finance
    Publications
  35. Securitisation in East Asia
    Publications
  36. The Platformization of Finance with Professor Douglas Arner
  37. Building Better Payment System
  38. Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation
    Publications
  39. 10 years after Lehman: Looking Back, Looking Forward