2026 LawTech Consortium
Date: May 29 – 30, 2026 (Friday to Saturday)
Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm (May 29), 9:30am – 12:30pm (May 30)
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Day 1: May 29, 2026 (Friday, 9:30am – 5:30pm)
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Session / Speaker
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| 9:30 – 10:30am |
Panel 1: Copyright and Technology
Moderator: James Fry, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
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The Future of Copyright Law
Gideon Parchomovsky, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Chair in Corporate Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
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Is AIGC “Expression”?
Yutong Li, Research Associate & Doctorate Student, Waseda University
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| 10:30 – 11:00am |
Tea break
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| 11:00am – 12:30pm |
Panel 2: AI, Competition, and Platform Power
Moderator: Kelvin Low, Professor, The University of Hong Kong
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Dynamic Competition in American Law
Christopher Yoo, Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, University of Pennsylvania
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The Competition Law Tools in the World of AI
Julian Nowag, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
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| 12:30 – 2:30pm |
Lunch
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| 2:30 – 3:30pm |
Panel 3: Data Governance, Privacy, and Research Infrastructure
Moderator: Einat Albin, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Trade Secrets and the European Health Data Space between Narratives and Actual Operational Rules
Paolo Guarda, Associate Professor, University of Trento
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The Second Privacy Revolution: Utilitarian Data Governance in the U.S. and China
Haochen Sun, Professor, The University of Hong Kong
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3:30 – 4:00pm
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Tea break
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4:00 – 5:30pm
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Panel 4: AI Governance, Labour, Disinformation, and the State
Moderator: Brian Tang, Founding Executive Director, Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab, The University of Hong Kong
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Rethinking the Innovation-Regulation Trade-Off: AI, Labour, and the Myth of Tension
Einat Albin, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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An Algorithmic Lens for Antitrust Law. The Case of Google Search
Giovanna Massarotto, Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania |
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Disinformation Tackling in the EU: Can a Risk-Based Regulation Be the Right Remedy?
Clément Maertens, PhD researcher, UCLouvain
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Day 2: May 30, 2026 (Saturday, 9:30am – 12:45pm)
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Session / Speaker
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| 9:30 – 10:30am |
Panel 5: Standards, Market Structure, and Technology Enforcement
Moderator: Alex Zhicheng Huang, Global Academic Fellow, The University of Hong Kong
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The New Geometry of SEP Enforcement: ASIs, AAILs, and the WTO Dimension
Christoph Rademacher, Professor of Law & Co-Director, RCLIP, Waseda University
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Natural Oligopolies
Gerald Adams, Georg Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
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Digital Objects and the Case for Res Digitales
Salina Govindsamy, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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10:30 – 11:00am
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Tea break
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| 11:00am – 12:30pm |
Panel 6: Patent and Research Environment
Moderator: Salina Govindsamy, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Trusted Research Environments in the Health Research Context
Aliki Edgcumbe, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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The Doctrine of Equivalents in Japan, the U.S., Germany, the U.K., and the UPC: A Comparative Study With Reflections on the AI Era
Hiroyuki Nakao, Doctorate Student, Waseda University
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| 12:30 – 12:45pm |
Closing Remarks
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This event is free of charge. To register, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=106733.