New Episode of Regulatory Ramblings Podcast: Dr Kuzi Charamba on Human Rights in the Metaverse

"How can corporations ensure human rights in the Metaverse"

Are we looking back to the 17th-18th century East India Company for clues in order to visualise regulations in the Metaverse?

In this episode of Regulatory Ramblings Briefs, Dr. Kuzi Charamba, a Postdoctoral Fellow at HKU’s Faculty of Law, speaks to host Ajay Shamdasani about his paper entitled “Beyond The Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights In The Dawn Of A Metaverse”.

They discuss the need for regulators and policymakers to be more forward-looking rather than reactive in terms of regulation of and governance in a Metaverse; the possibility for global harmonization of rules in this new realm; how to govern multiple, disconnected Metaverses; the dichotomy between one’s physical and digital personality, and how to set up appropriate governance systems for that.

SSRN Paper link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4043254

Youtube embed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87vK22fR13o&t=5s

HKU Law Welcomes AIIFL Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kuzi Charamba

Dr Kuzi Charamba joined as Post-Doctoral Fellow in FinTech, RegTech, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development, based in the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) in February 2021. Kuzi did his PhD / DCL and LLM at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and his LLB at Kings College London. He has taught a number of courses at McGill during his PhD / DCL studies, including winning McGill’s Teaching Tomorrow’s Professor Award. 

 He also has extensive research experience, in particular with the One Earth Future Foundation in Denver, Colorado, USA, as a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado Law School, and research assistant to several leading professors at McGill. He has delivered papers and presentations in Thailand, Canada, the USA, the Dominican Republic, Spain and the Netherlands.

His first book Hired Guns and Human Rights had been published.