Douglas Arner on Digital Finance, Financial Inclusion and Sustainability: Building Better Financial Systems (RGC SFS)

Digital finance has accelerated its influence on financial systems in the wake of crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, climate change and market volatilities across the globe.

      Awardee of the 2020/21 Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme, Douglas Arner (Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at The University of Hong Kong) leads his team in the exploration on digitisation and its effects on finance and regulation through new technologies.

     In collaboration with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Group, the Senior Research Fellow Scheme project strategises to enable FinTech and RegTech solutions to build relationships between digital payments and financial inclusion. Watch this video to learn more about the project’s initiatives.

"Discrimination", Volume 22, Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (2nd Edition) edited by Patricia Ho et al

"133 - Discrimination"
Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (2nd Edition)
Volume 22, 2022 Reissue

Edited by Patricia Ho, Evelyn Tsao, and Crystal Charlie Yeung

(1) Introduction

[133.001] The scope of the title and its legislative frameworks

The Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap 383) which entrenches the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (‘ICCPR’) prohibits any discrimination and guarantees to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. In order to specifically and effectively provide recourse to persons facing discrimination, four pieces of legislation were enacted: (1) the Sex Discrimination Ordinance (Cap 480); (2) Race Discrimination Ordinance (Cap 602); (3) Disability Discrimination Ordinance (Cap 487); and Family Status Discrimination Ordinance (Cap 527). These legislations are implemented and enforced by the Equal Opportunities Commission...

New Book by Eric Ip: Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law (Springer)

Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law
Eric C Ip
Springer
Published in October 2022
71 pp

Abstract: This book provides an accessible introduction to the emerging field of behavioral public choice economics and the law. This field studies how public officials, lawmakers, and judges fall prey to their own biases and heuristics, and how constitutions and judicial doctrines can be structured to mitigate these cognitive shortcomings. Written lucidly in plain language, this book is invaluable to all students, scholars, and general readers interested in behavioral economics, law and economics, and political economy. Click here to download the book (open access).

HKU Law Welcomes Professor Daniel A Bell, Chair of Political Theory

Welcome to Professor Daniel A Bell who joined the Faculty of Law!  Daniel A Bell (貝淡寧) is Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) from 2017 to 2022. 

     His books include The Dean of Shandong (2023), Just Hierarchy (co-authored with Wang Pei, 2020), The China Model (2015), The Spirit of Cities (co-authored with Avner de-Shalit, 2012), China's New Confucianism (2008), Beyond Liberal Democracy (2007), and East Meets West (2000), all published by Princeton University Press.  He is also the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press, 1993).
     He is founding editor of the Princeton-China series (Princeton University Press) which translates and publishes original and influential academic works from China. His works have been translated in 23 languages. He has been interviewed in English, Chinese, and French. In 2018, he was awarded the Huilin Prize and was honored as a “Cultural Leader” by the World Economic Forum.

New Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2022)

                ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAW

Editors-in-Chief: Simon NM Young and Kelley Loper 

Publisher: Brill, Leiden

2022, Volume 23, Issue 2

Table of Contents

1. Indonesiaat the Intersection of Human Rights and International Investment: The Overlap of Law, Sovereignty and Global Value Chains

Authors: Hikmatul Ula, Kevin Sobel-Read and Cahyani Aisyiah  Pages: 125–155

 

2. Justice After Covid 19: an Analysis of the Challenges Faced by the Formal Justice Sector in Sri Lanka During a Global Pandemic

Author: Dinushika Dissanayake  Pages: 156–205

 3. Towards the Human Right to Climatic Non-Interference

Author: Ahmed Almutawa  Pages: 206–244

 

4. Increasing Trust in the Digital Market Through Regional Rules: the Case of Asia

Authors: Katrin Nyman Metcalf and Ioannis F. Papageorgiou

Pages: 245–279