Call for Papers: the Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System: Retrospect and Prospect’ (abstract submission: on or before Apr 30)

Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System:

Retrospect and Prospect’ – Call for Papers

「香港雙語法制：回顧與前瞻」研討會徵稿通知

The Conference on ‘Hong Kong Bilingual Legal System: Retrospect and Prospect’ will be held on 26 and 27 August 2023 at the University of Hong Kong. Organised by the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, the conference is the first major international academic conference to focus on legal language of Hong Kong. The Conference aims to provide a platform for experts and legal practitioners from home and abroad to present their research and practical views, as well as to provide networking opportunities. In addition to the presentation sessions, workshops will be held on a variety of topics, covering both theoretical and practical aspects. As the Official Languages Ordinance is approaching its 50th anniversary, this Conference will review the challenges and opportunities of legal language of Hong Kong, and provide new ideas and directions to guide the further development of Hong Kong’s bilingual legal system.

「香港雙語法制：回顧與前瞻」研討會將於2023年8月26日及27日在香港大學舉行。本研討會由香港大學法律學院主辦，是首場以香港法律語言為主題的大型國際學術研討會。本研討會旨在為國內外專家學者及法律從業員提供平台，發表研究成果及實務意見，以及提供交流、聯繫的機會。本研討會除設有專題報告環節外，亦會舉行不同主題的工作坊，兼顧理論與實務層面。適逢《法定語文條例》實施接近50年，本研討會將回顧香港法律語言的挑戰及機遇，並提供新思維、新方向，引領香港雙語法制進一步發展。

Experts, scholars, practitioners, and students in the field of legal language research are invited to submit papers on any topic related to Hong Kong’s bilingual legal system and the legal language of Hong Kong. Each paper will have a tentative presentation time of 15 minutes and a discussion time of 10 minutes. Papers are particularly welcomed on the following topics:

現誠邀國內外從事法律語言研究的專家學者、法律從業員、學生等提交任何與香港雙語法制或香港法律語言有關的論文。每篇論文報告時間暫定為15分鐘，討論時間為10分鐘。本研討會特別歡迎圍繞下列主題的論文：

1. The development of the common law in Chinese

以中文發展的普通法

2. Developments and challenges in the use of Chinese in court proceedings

於法庭程序使用中文的發展和挑戰

3. Developments and challenges in bilingual law drafting

雙語法律草擬的發展和挑戰

4. The impact of information technology on the use of Chinese in law

資訊科技對法用中文的影響

5. The development of bilingual legal education

雙語法律教育的發展

6. Development of legal Chinese in the Greater China Region

大中華地區的法用中文發展

1. This Conference is conducted in both Chinese and English, and abstracts are welcomed in either Chinese or English.

本研討會以中文、英文雙語進行，歡迎以中文或英文提交論文提要。

2. Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed 400 words.

論文提要應為匿名，字數不超過400字。

3. Please send your abstract in Microsoft Word (*.docx / *.doc) or as a text file (*.rtf / *.txt) to lawlanghk@gmail.com on or before 30 April 2023 (Sunday).

請於2023年4月30日（星期日）前把論文提要以Microsoft Word 電子檔 (*.docx / *.doc) 或文字檔案 (*.rtf / *.txt) 發送至 lawlanghk@gmail.com.

4. In the email text, please include the (1) real name, (2) affiliation and position, (3) correspondence address, and (4) email address of the author(s).

請於電郵內文註明作者的 (1) 真實姓名；(2) 所屬機構名稱、職稱；(3) 通訊地址及 (4) 電子郵件信箱。

5. Each person may submit a maximum of two individual papers and two co-authored papers.

每人最多只能提交兩篇單獨撰寫的論文，以及兩篇合寫的論文。

6. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and approved before they can be presented at the Conference. Review results will be available on 31 May 2023 (Wednesday).

論文提要將經匿名評審，通過評審後始能在研討會上報告。評審結果將於2023年5月31日（星期三）公布。

7. Some of the presented papers may be published in a book, tentatively scheduled for 2024. The final decision of acceptance will be made by the Organising Committee of the Conference based on the academic standard and practical reference value of the paper.

部分發表的論文可能編集成書，並暫定於2024年出版。錄取論文與否，以其學術水平及實務參考價值為衡量標準，最後結果由研討會籌備委員會決定。

8. Conference participation is free (including a conference dinner on 26 August 2023 for invited guests and paper presenters). Conference participants are responsible for their own travel expenses to and from their place of origin to Hong Kong, meals, accommodation, sightseeing and transportation costs in Hong Kong during the Conference. Paper presenters coming from outside Hong Kong will receive a modest subvention towards their costs.

參加會議是免費的（包括2023年8月26日為受邀嘉賓及論文發表者舉行的會議晚宴）。與會者須自行負責來回原居地與香港的交通費，以及研討會期間在香港的住宿、膳食、觀光和交通費用。來自香港以外的論文發表者將獲得適量的費用補貼。

For enquiries, please contact Mr Wilson Lui (Pre-Doctoral Fellow and part-time Lecturer, HKU Faculty of Law) or Mr Edmund Cham (Adjunct Associate Professor, HKU Faculty of Law) at lawlanghk@gmail.com. 如有查詢，請電郵至 lawlanghk@gmail.com 與呂致延先生（香港大學法律學院博士前研究員、兼任講師）或湛樹基先生（香港大學法律學院客席副教授）聯絡

Call for Papers (Abstracts deadline: Mar 15 2023): The Law & Sustainability Conference Series held by SMU Law, USYD Law, and HKU Law

Call for Papers. The Law & Sustainability Conference Series held by SMU Law, USYD Law, and HKU Law invite papers related to anticipation, connections, resilience. DDL for abstracts is Mar 15 2023.

More info on https://ccla.smu.edu.sg/.../Call-for-Papers_Law...

Also on Chinese Law Blog: https://www.ccl.law.hku.hk/chinese-law-blog

CCPL Conference: Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (June 22-24, 2022)

About the Conference
The conference will focus on what the pandemic has revealed about the causes and nature of inequalities around the world. Calls to tackle deep-seated structural and intersectional discrimination have increased in recent years, but so has the backlash. In some places we see attempts to dismantle hard-won, progressive legal and policy change. In others, ongoing efforts to achieve reform have stalled.

With these realities in mind, the conference will consider possibilities for crafting effective responses as we move forward in a vastly unequal post-pandemic world.

The conference features 3 keynote presentations, 4 other plenary discussions, and 23 parallel workshops with 150+ experts from over 25 countries.

Keynote Speakers
New Directions for Equality in a Post Covid World
Jayna Kothari (Founder-Director Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bangalore)

Microverse, Mezzoverse, Macroverse: Protection against Discrimination in an Artificialized World?
Vitit Muntarbhorn (Professor Emeritus Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)

From Disabled Justice to Disability Justice: the Practice of China
Zhang Wanhong (Professor of Jurisprudence Wuhan University School of Law, Wuhan, China)

Plenary Discussions
Judicial Perspectives on Tranforming Equality
Beverley McLachlin (Former Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court)
Geoffrey Ma (Former Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal)

Let’s Get Equality Out of the Box!
Laura Carlson, Puja Kapai, Naina Kapur

[Book Talk] Exponential Inequalities: Equality Law in Times of Crisis
Shreya Atrey and Sandra Fredman (eds)
Alysia Blackham, Jessica Clarke, Beth Gaze, Kelley Loper, Jule Mulder, Colm O’Cinneide

UCLA WORLD Policy Analysis Center: Equal Rights and Discrimination Project
Jody Heymann

Conference Programme
The conference programme can be found here.

Registration
There is no fee, but all attendees must register in advance here.

International Conference: Intellectual Property, Covid-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (5-6 Nov 2021)

Intellectual Property, Covid-19, and the Next Pandemic:

Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures 

Dates: November 5 – 6, 2021 (Friday – Saturday) 

Time: 8am – 12:30pm (US Eastern Standard Time) 

This conference will be conducted via Zoom. 

This conference is co-organized by the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Georgetown University Law Center.  It will be conducted via Zoom and prior registration is required.  More information is available on the conference website: https://www.covidip.hku.hk/.

 Conference organizers

• Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center
• Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
  

Keynote speakers

• Edward Kwakwa, Assistant Director General, Global Challenges and Partnerships Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization
• William Fisher, WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
• Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
  

Panel speakers & moderators

• Kashish Aneja, Consultant, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Olufunmilayo Arewa, Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Anupam Chander, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Jorge L. Contreras, Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law and Director of Program on Intellectual Property Law & Policy, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
• Rochelle Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law and Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, New York University School of Law
• Lawrence Gostin, University Professor and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Calvin Ho, Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
• Eric Ip, Associate Professor of Law and Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
• Amy Kapczynski, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School
• Matthew Kavanagh, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Director, Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
• Priti Krishtel, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK)
• Sapna Kumar, Professor of Law, John Mixon Chair and Co-Director for the Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Houston Law Center
• Peter Lee, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law
• Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• Nicholson Price, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
• Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Jerome Reichman, Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, Duke University Law School
• Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Ken Shadlen, Professor of Development Studies, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Jayashree Watal, Former Staff Member, WTO’s Intellectual Property Division and Honorary Professor, National Law University Delhi
• Peter Yu, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director, Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University School of Law

All are welcome!  More information about this event is available on the conference website.  Please register as soon as possible.

Please direct any inquiries to Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk or (+852) 3917 4727.

Professor Richard Cullen presented at Hong Kong National Security Law 1st Anniversary Legal Forum by DOJ - "Comparative National Security Law: Australia and Singapore"

Professor Richard Cullen was honored to make a presentation at the Conference run by the DOJ to mark the first anniversary of the National Security Law.  

                          Hong Kong National Security Law 1^st Anniversary Legal Forum

COMPARATIVE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW: AUSTRALIA AND SINGAPORE

by 

Richard Cullen 

_________________________________ 

INTRODUCTION

Good afternoon distinguished guests and friends

Thank you, Professor Zhu, for the introduction. And thank you to the Department of Justice for asking me to speak at this forum.

In an ideal world, there would be no need for National Security Laws. We live in a wonderful world – but it is far from ideal. We received a stunning reminder of this certainty in Hong Kong in 2019. The insurrection, which grew out of a series of major protest marches, had established traction by early June in that year and it grimly continued for many subsequent months.

In the normal, real world, National Security Laws have been applied in various forms for centuries. The Treason Act, for example, codified the Common Law offence of treason in England in 1351 during the reign of the Plantagenet King, Edward III.

National Security Laws have grown significantly more detailed and complex over time. Context matters. After the 911 attacks in 2001 in America, there was a major lift in National Security legislating around the world – led by the US (though, until last year, there was no such lift in Hong Kong).

Consequently, the scope of the matters to be discussed today is wide. Accordingly, I plan to use my time:

· To summarize key aspects of the Australian National Security Framework;.

· To discuss, briefly, the National Security Framework in Singapore; and

· To consider two relevant case studies illustrating the impact of these National Security regimes.

Click here for more details of the forum.

2021 HKU Legal and Political Theory Postgraduate Conference

The first joint postgraduate conference in Legal and Political Theory, co-organized by the Faculty of Law and the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Hong Kong, successfully took place via Zoom on May 5, 6, and 7 2021. 

      On May 5th, the conference started with an inspiring talk by Professor Jonathan Wolff from the University of Oxford on 'The Point is to Change It', followed by 12 presentations by selected participants. The second day of the conference started with a wonderful talk by Dr Kieran Oberman from the University of Edinburgh on 'Immigration and the Hohfeldian Fallacy', followed by another 12 presentations by selected participants. The last day of the conference started with an information session by Chandran Kukathas from Singapore Management University on 'John Rawls and the Immigrant' , followed by 12 more presentations by selected participants.

     Over, the conference attracted over 70 applications from academics and students all over the world, including Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. 

International Conference: Data Sovereignty along the Digital Silk Road (6-7 Jan 2021 on Zoom)

Data Sovereignty along the Digital Silk Road

Date: January 6 – 7, 2021 (Wednesday – Thursday)

Time: 8am – 12pm (US Eastern Standard Time)

This conference is co-organized by the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy of the Georgetown University Law Center. It will be conducted via Zoom and prior registration is required. More information is available from the conference website: https://www.datasovereignty.hku.hk/.

Keynote Speakers:
Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor and the Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Panel Speakers & Moderators:

Susan Aaronson, Research Professor & Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs

Douglas Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Mira Burri, Managing Director Steering Committee Internationalisation (SCI) & Senior Lecturer, University of Lucerne Faculty of Law

Anupam Chander, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Anne Cheung, Professor of Law & Co-Director of the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Théodore Christakis, Professor of International and European Law, Université Grenoble Alpes

Julie Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University Law Center

Jennifer Daskal, Professor of Law & Faculty Director, Tech, Law & Security Program, American University Washington College of Law

Henry Gao, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University School of Law

Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales

Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University‎ McDonough School of Business

Neha Mishra, Lecturer in Law, Australian National University

Kyung-Sin Park, Professor of Law, Korea University Law School; Open Net Korea

Shin-yi Peng, Distinguished Professor of Law, National Tsing Hua University

Thomas Streinz, Adjunct Professor of Law & Executive Director, Guarini Global Law & Tech, New York University School of Law

Haochen Sun, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law

Dan Svantesson, Professor of Law & Co-Director, Centre for Commercial Law, Bond University Faculty of Law

Andrew Woods, Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law

All are welcome! Please register as soon as possible at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WARJ4wtlnSmJR_hR9vVfc6sNS9eGzY-K70env7Dskys/viewform?edit_requested=true. . The link to the Zoom webinar will be provided upon successful registration.

Please direct any inquiries to Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk or (+852) 3917 4727.