Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
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Faculty Members
Haochen Sun
Founding Director of Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law & Professor of Law
Research areas: Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, Chinese Law
Douglas Arner
Kerry Holdings Professor in Law
Research areas: Financial, Banking and Insurance Law, WTO, Trade and International Economic Law, Regulation and Development
Benjamin Chen
Associate Professor & Director of Law and Technology Centre, HKU Faculty of Law
Research areas: Legislation and Regulation, Law and Technology, Courts and Judicial Decision Making, Empirical Legal Studies
Thomas Cheng
Professor
Research areas: Competition Law & Policy, Law and Development, Law and Innovation
Taorui Guan
Assistant Professor
Research areas: Intellectual Property Law,
Law and Technology, Chinese Law, Comparative Law
Eric C. Ip
Professor
Research areas: Public Health Law and Ethics, Planetary Health Law and Ethics, Comparative Administrative Law,
Comparative Constitutional Law
John Zhuang Liu
Associate Professor
Research areas: Chinese law and China’s economic development, the application of quantitative methods in the law
Brian Tang
Principal Professional Practitioner; Founding Executive Director, LITE Lab@HKU
Research areas: Law and Technology, Computational Law, AI Governance, Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship Law
Scott Veitch
Paul K C Chung Professor in Jurisprudence
Research area: Legal Theory
Ryan Whalen
Associate Professor
Research areas: Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Policy
Angus Young
Senior Lecturer
Research areas: Corporate Governance, Financial Regulations and Crimes, Risk and Compliance
Herman Cappelen
Chair Professor
Research areas: Philosophical foundations of explainable AI, social importance of explainable AI, connections between AI and Philosophy, nature of interpretable AI, Communication between humans and AI, and The metaphysics of virtual reality
Rachel Katharine Sterken
Associate Professor
Research areas: Philosophy of Technology, Alignment, Explainable AI, Communication, Philosophy of AI, Philosophy of VR and AR, Ethics of AI and VR
Boris Babic
Associate Professor
Research areas: Bayesian inference and decision-making, ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Visiting Professors
William Fisher
WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School
December 2023
Anupam Chander
Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University
January 2024
Christopher S. Yoo
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
January 2024
Academic Fellows
Erik Shaddock
PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong
Research field: Intellectual Property Law
Iris Yunfan Mo
PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong
Research field: Information Technology Law
Zihan Ni
PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
Research field: Intellectual Property Law
Jiakun Luo
Research Assistant, The University of Hong Kong
Research fields: AI Copyright, Algorithm Fairness, Data Privacy
Xiaoyu Zhou
PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong
Research fields: Data-related rights, privacy protection
