New issue of Hong Kong Law Journal (Vol. 56, Part 1 of 2026)

HONG KONG LAW JOURNAL

Vol. 56, Part 1 of 2026

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Eric C Ip

Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Trevor Wan

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Purposive, Holistic and Contextual

Kemal Bokhary...1

Discretion in the Legal System: A Roundtable Exchange (with Simon Young and Amanda  Whitfort et al)

Trevor T W Wan...9

Beyond 4–18: Gendered Labour Precarity and the Limits of Law Reform in Hong Kong

Darcy Davison-Roberts, Yu Yiran and Li Jiawei...21

Regulating Targeted Advertising Through the Informed Consent Model

Luo Jiakun...55

Symposium: Trust, Wealth Management, and Philanthropy

Reimagining Charity Law

Matthew Harding...89

For-Profit Philanthropic Innovation in the US

Dana Brakman Reiser...107

Offshore Philanthropy: A Critical Look at Family Offices using Hybrid Trusts

Tang Hang Wu...129

Perpetual Charitable Trusts and Artificial Intelligence

Ian Murray...151

Treatise Writing Technique and a Problem in English Charitable Donation Law

John Picton...181

Regulating Trustee Investment in the Pacific Rim

M Scott Donald...199

Data Charitable Trusts: Balancing Privacy and Sharing Value in Healthcare Data Governance

Yuxin Zhao...229

Planning with Purpose: Purpose Trusts, Charitable Gifts, and Business Succession Planning

Susan Gary...265

The Nature of Recipients in Charitable Trusts and Discretionary Trusts

Zhicheng Wu and Dongying Ye...295

Resilience and Social Justice: Rethinking Responses to Southeast Asia’s Substandard Housing Crisis

Rebecca Lee and Jodi Gardner...313