Day 1: May 29, 2026 (Friday, 9:30am - 5:30pm) 

Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong 

Time

Session / Speaker

9:30 - 10:30am

Panel 1: Copyright and Technology

Moderator: James Fry, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

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

Is AIGC “Expression”?

Yutong Li, Research Associate & Doctorate Student, Waseda University

 10:30 - 11:00am

 Tea break 

11:00am - 12:30pm

Panel 2: AI, Competition, and Platform Power

Moderator: Kelvin Low, Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Dynamic Competition in American Law

Christopher Yoo, Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, University of Pennsylvania

The Competition Law Tools in the World of AI

Julian Nowag, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

 12:30 - 2:30pm 

 Lunch

2:30 - 3:30pm

Panel 3: Data Governance, Privacy, and Research Infrastructure

Moderator: Einat Albin, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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

The Second Privacy Revolution: Utilitarian Data Governance in the U.S. and China

Haochen Sun, Professor, The University of Hong Kong

 3:30 - 4:00pm 

 Tea break

4:00 - 5:30pm

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

Rethinking the Innovation-Regulation Trade-Off: AI, Labour, and the Myth of Tension

Einat Albin, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

An Algorithmic Lens for Antitrust Law. The Case of Google Search

Giovanna Massarotto, Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania

Disinformation Tackling in the EU: Can a Risk-Based Regulation Be the Right Remedy?

Clément Maertens, PhD researcher, UCLouvain

Day 2: May 30, 2026 (Saturday, 9:30am - 12:45pm) 

Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong 

Time

Session / Speaker

9:30 - 10:30am

Panel 5: Standards, Market Structure, and Technology Enforcement

Moderator: Alex Zhicheng Huang, Global Academic Fellow, The University of Hong Kong

The New Geometry of SEP Enforcement: ASIs, AAILs, and the WTO Dimension

Christoph Rademacher, Professor of Law & Co-Director, RCLIP, Waseda University

Natural Oligopolies

Gerald Adams, Georg Sharswood Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Digital Objects and the Case for Res Digitales

Salina Govindsamy, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

 10:30 - 11:00am 

 Tea break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Panel 6: Patent and Research Environment

Moderator: Salina Govindsamy, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Trusted Research Environments in the Health Research Context

Aliki Edgcumbe, Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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

 12:30 - 12:45pm 

 Closing Remarks