by admin | Nov 19, 2021
The Chinese judicial system has put millions of case judgements online and installed machines in courthouses that tell would-be litigants their chances of success. In one sense, this puts legal matters in the hands of ordinary citizens. But at the same time,...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021
Under the auspices of the Law and Technology Centre, the research team led by Professor Ben Kao of the Department of Computer Science and Professor Anne Cheung of the Faculty of Law have developed a Stage-1 model of HKU AI Lawyer, which can predict sentencing...
by admin | May 12, 2021
The Law Faculty’s Law, Innovation, Technovation and Entrepreneurship (LITE) Lab@HKU is barely two years old, but it is already making an impact. Students and staff have been developing tools and systems that are nudging current and future legal professionals in Hong...
by admin | May 12, 2021
What is ‘teaching’? For Ms Alice Lee, recipient of the 2019 University Distinguished Teaching Award, the most satisfying teaching is a partnership in which students, as much as their teacher, contribute content to the discussion. She has taken that philosophy beyond...
by admin | May 12, 2021
When Professor Fu Hualing – Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities – was first approached to succeed Professor Michael Hor as Dean of Law, he hesitated. He was not from a common law jurisdiction (although he studied and worked in Toronto for seven...
