by admin | Nov 15, 2024
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government announced that it was “following the science” in implementing severe interventions. The approach sounded reasonable, but soon revealed serious limitations, particularly in regard to people’s freedoms and...
by admin | May 22, 2024
The Chinese central government has introduced many policies over the years to spur economic growth and curtail excesses such as corruption. But there have been unintended consequences. For instance, policies to develop coastal cities have attracted millions of...
by admin | May 16, 2024
In 2022, US courts ordered American talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than US$1 billion in damages to the parents of several of the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School by a gunman in 2012. Jones had been claiming online...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
How does one determine if an invention is truly innovative, worthy of a patent? Or, say, a song is truly original, worthy of copyright protection? The answer is not very straightforward, says Dr Ryan Whalen of the Faculty of Law, who is using large language learning...
by admin | Nov 22, 2023
Launched in 2010, the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programme is still the only live client programme offering preliminary legal advice to ordinary citizens in Hong Kong. Over those 13 years, the programme has handled more than 2,600 cases under the Free Legal Advice...
