Co-organized by Global Policy Institute at Durham University and the Law and Technology Centre at HKU Faculty of Law
Dates: May 15 – 16, 2025. This conference is also available on Zoom. Register to get the Zoom link.
5 pm – 5:30 pm (HK Time), Welcome and Opening Remarks
5:30 pm – 6:10 pm (HK Time), Prof. Andrew Murray, Professor of Law, LSE
Do we have a Human Right to a Human Lawyer and Judge?
6:10 pm – 6:50 pm (HK Time), Prof. William Lucy, Professor, Durham University
Algorithms Instead of Adjudication: Why?
Break
7 pm – 7:40 pm (HK Time), Xiaohan Liang, PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong
AI and Criminal Sentencing in China: Applications, Misgivings, and Prospects
7:40 pm – 8:10 pm (HK Time), Dr. Zhiyu Li, Associate Professor in Law and Policy; Thematic Lead in Global Innovation and AI, Global Policy Institute, Durham University
Can Artificial Intelligence Democratize Law?
Break
9:40 pm – 10:20 pm (HK Time), Prof. Benjamin Chen, Associate Professor and Director of the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Algorithm
10:20 pm – 11 pm (HK Time), Dr. Marianne von Blomberg, Research Fellow, University of Cologne; Global Academic Fellow, The University of Hong Kong (incoming)
Algorithmic Public Regulation and Legality – Cases from Zhejiang Province
Break
11:20 pm – 12 am of May 16 (HK Time), Prof. Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Islands of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining a Democratic Digital Public Sphere
12 am – 1 am (HK Time), Keynote Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales
Chair and moderator: Dr Terry McGuinness, Legal Adviser to the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill
1 am – 1:20 am (HK Time), Closing Remarks by Benjamin Chen (HKU) & Zhiyu Li (Durham University)
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=100088