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Brian Tang 陳華利

Principal Professional Practitioner

Executive Director, LITE Lab@HKU
BA/LLB (Hons) (WAust), LLM (NYU)

Biography

BRIAN W TANG is founding executive director of Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab, the University of Hong Kong’s interdisciplinary and experiential programme which has received various international awards for its industry collaboration innovations, including the 2023 Edtech Heroes Award for Stakeholder Engagement (Higher Education).  Brian was awarded the Faculty of Law’s 2022 Outstanding Teaching Award, is an Advance HE Fellow and his LITE Lab students have also won numerous legal innovation & technology competitions in the US and Germany.   Brian’s courses were one of the first from law schools worldwide to incorporate GenAI and is in line with the Law Society of Hong Kong’s 2024 recommendations. His current wide-ranging research areas cover AI governance, emerging capital markets for tokenized securities and carbon credits, sustainable financing and the role and impact of technology on the future delivery of legal services and education.

Featured in the future of work book Future Proof, Brian is also co-chair of Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA), APAC regional board member of Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers and invited member of the Hong Kong Department of Justice Consultation Group on LawTech Development.

Prior to joining HKU, Brian practiced law at international law firms in New York and Australia as well as at a global investment bank in Hong Kong. Brian also led the Regtech initiatives of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong and organized Hong Kong’s first lawtech hackathon (whose top team won the New York grand finals).

Brian graduated with an LLM from New York University Schol of Law and BA/LLB from The University of Western Australia.

Research Area

  • Law and Technology
  • Computational Law
  • AI Governance
  • Experiential Learning
  • Entrepreneurship Law

Research Area

  • Law and Technology
  • Computational Law
  • AI Governance
  • Experiential Learning
  • Entrepreneurship Law

Publications

Legal Innovation and Legaltech; Innovation 

Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics

  • “The Chiron Imperative – A Framework of Six Human-in-the-Loop Paradigms to Create Wise and Just AI-Human Centaurs” in the LEGALTECH Book, Wiley (forthcoming, 2020)
  • “Independent AI ethics committees and ESG corporate reporting on AI as emerging corporate and AI governance trends”, in The AI Book, Wiley (forthcoming, 2020)
  • “Forging a Responsibility and Liability Framework in the AI Era for RegTech” in The REGTECH Book, Wiley, 2019
  • IEEE Standards Association, Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems Ethically Aligned Design : A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems v.2 – Report from Hong Kong, 2017

Fintech & Regtech 

  • “Forging a Responsibility and Liability Framework in the AI Era for RegTech” in The REGTECH Book, Wiley, 2019
  • Quoted in “How everyone is trying to land the next fintech hub” (Jemma Green, Forbes, May 2018)
  • “Online capital marketplaces as new asset classes – FinTechnologist professionalism and education are key to earning trust to access “other people’s money” in The FINTECH Book , Wiley, 2016 (quoted by Avi Gaskell in “The Rise of Investment Crowdfunding” in Forbes)

Capital Markets