Distinguished Mainland China Scholars Series 2023

Governance and Law in a Digital Society
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Date & Time: April 24, 2023 (Monday) 12:00 – 13:00
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Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
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Language: Putonghua 
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Format: *Hybrid-mode – Online participation is available* 

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Abstract:
The Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law is proud to introduce the Distinguished Mainland China Scholars Series featuring renowned legal scholars from top Chinese universities this semester. Our first webinar in this series will explore how our lives are becoming increasingly digitized through our interactions with artificial intelligence, the internet of things, Big Data and the Metaverse. The blurred boundaries between virtuality and reality have shone light on the need to rebuild the relationship between the digital and the analogue. Join us to learn about new phenomena such as “individual sovereignty”, “distributed autonomous organizations” and the “reconstruction of the basis of order by community rules” and their implications for law, politics and sociology. Our speakers, leading academics from Mainland China, will discuss the necessary revolution in institutional paradigms and how China’s dual structure that includes the Mainland and Hong Kong can form a “corridor mechanism” to connect the ecosystem of encrypted assets with the jurisdiction of sovereign states. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to delve into this exciting and relevant topic.

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Speaker:
Weidong Ji, Senior Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Member of the University Council, President of the China institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Governance and Legal Research Center. He also served as Chairman of the Shanghai Law & Sociology Research Association, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Law and Society, Chairman of the Computing Law Branch of the China Computer Federation (CCF), Consultant of the Expert Advisory Committee of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development and Innovation Pilot Zone in Shanghai, Member of China Digital Economy 50 People Forum, Executive Director of China Judicial Research Association, and Vice Chairman of  the Technology for Sustainable Development Goals Alliance for Asia. Professor Ji graduated from Peking University Law School and obtained his Ph.D. at Kyoto University. He was Dean of KoGuan School of Law of Shanghai Jiaotong University (2008-2018) and was once a professor at Kobe University School of Law (1996-2008). His research interests cover sociology of law, comparative law, and digital jurisprudence. His works in Chinese include “Construction of Legal Order”, “New Theory of Constitutional Governance”, “Significance of Legal Procedures”, “China’s Rule of Law in the Profound Transformation”, “Road to the Rule of Law: Social Diversity and Authoritarian System”, “Legal Changes in the AI Era”, “Crossover of Law: Norms, Facts, and Intersection of Disciplines”, “Metaverse Order: Virtual Humans, Encrypted Assets, and Innovation in the Rule of Law”, etc.

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Moderator:
Sida Liu is Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. Professor Liu’s research interests include sociology of law, Chinese law and society, criminal justice and human rights, law and globalization, and sociolegal theory. He has conducted extensive empirical research on various aspects of China’s legal reform and legal professions. In addition to his empirical work, Professor Liu also writes on theories of law, professions, and social spaces.