SYNOPSIS: LAW AND HUMANITIES SEMINAR For millennia voyages upon the sea have provided the material for myths, legends, and narratives of ethical life. From Homer to...
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Conference and Seminars, International and Comparative law, Law and Medical ethics
Marie Danielle Kobler: Conversations at life’s end-reimagining advance care planning in Hong Kong as an intervention
Date: 29May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Hong Kong has a rapidly aging population and a majority of deaths occur in public hospitals. Poorly developed primary care services and...
Human Rights, Law and Medical ethics, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Wyng-Hatton Lecture
Prof Bartha M. Knoppers: Computing Genomic and Health Data in the “Clouds”? ELSI Challenges
Date: 21May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Big Data computation will increasingly use commercial cloud providers such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon as the locus of analysis due to the...
Court and Judiciary, Facutly Inaugural Public Lecture, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof Anselmo Reyes: THE FUTURE OF THE JUDICIARY-Reflections on Present Challenges to the Administration of Justice in Hong Kong
Date: 2May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Inaugural Lecture The lecture will highlight six challenges which urgently need to be addressed by the Judiciary in the interests of...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Comparative, Rights Talk
Lynette J. Chua: Singapore’s Gay Rights Movement: Past, Present, and Future
Date: 12May 2014 SYNOPSIS: From private meetings in living rooms in the early 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past seven...
Conference and Seminars, Criminal Law, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof Paul Roberts: Confronting Strasbourg: From Common Law Criminal Procedure and European Fair Trial Rights to Cosmopolitan Criminal Jurisprudence
Date: 07May 2014 SYNOPSIS: This paper explores the on-going impact of human rights norms on English criminal procedure. Recent Strasbourg case-law in relation to, e.g...
Conference and Seminars, Court and Judiciary, Public and Constitutional Law
David Law: Judicial Comparativism and Judicial Diplomacy
Date: 02May 2014 SYNOPSIS: Much has been said on the normative question of whether and in what ways courts ought to engage with foreign law. Rarely, however, do scholars...
Conference and Seminars, International and Comparative law, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property
Dr Žiga Turk: Communication & Technology in the Past, Present and Future of Europe
Date: 30Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Elements of society, individuals, families, businesses, states and other organizations are held together by communication. Throughout history...
Conference and Seminars, Corporate and Financial Law, Financial Regulation, Seminar, Taxation Law
Prof. Catherine Schenk: The Foundations of Hong Kong’s Banking Regulation and Supervision-Challenges of Internationalisation in the 1970s and 1980s
Date: 29Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Hong Kong’s banking system has historically been prone to repeated crises that prompted slow and piecemeal regulatory responses. Hong Kong’s...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof. Anupam Chander: Surveillance Along the Electronic Silk Road-China and the United States
Date: 29Apr 2014 SYNOPSIS: Fears of surveillance across borders are driving nations to cut off their countries with Berlin Walls for data, threatening to break apart the...