AI in Legal Services


Prof John ARMOUR
Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the  British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute
Presentation:
Augmented Lawyering
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
AI in Legal Service

Date:
Thur, 5 Nov, 2020

Afternoon Session:
17:00 to 18:15


Free Online Registration

The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19
  • AI mainly augments legal skills, rather than substitutes for them
  • AI deployment pipelines require multi disciplinary teams (MDTs)
    • Organizational form is a relevant factor in MDT establishment
    • Traditional law firm partnerships face challenge
    • Entry of “law companies”; restructuring of law firms as ABS
  • Legal human capital deployed in MDTs (non advisory work) raises issues about boundaries of legal profession

FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation


Prof Ross BUCKLEY
The KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney.
Presentation:
FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation

Date:
Thur, 12 Nov, 2020

Morning Session:
11:00 to 12:15

Free Online Registration


The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

Zetzsche, Birdthistle, Arner & Buckley, “Digital Finance Platforms: Towards a New Regulatory Paradigm”, forthcoming (2020) U of Pennsylvania Jnl of Business Law.

Zetzsche, Buckley & Arner, “Regulating Libra”, forthcoming  Oxford Jnl of Legal Studies.

Buckley, Arner, Zetzsche & Selga, “TechRisk”, [2020] Singapore Jnl of Legal Studies 35.

Zetzsche, Arner, Buckley & Weber, “The Evolution and Future of Data-Driven Finance in the E.U.”, (2020) 57 Common Market Law Review 331-360

Zetzsche, Buckley, Arner & Fohr, “The ICO Gold Rush: It’s a Scam, It’s a Bubble, It’s a Super Challenge for Regulators“, (2019) Harvard International Law Journal, in press.

Zetzsche, Buckley & Arner, “The Distributed Liability of Distributed Ledgers: Legal Risks of Blockchain”, (2018) University of Illinois Law Review, in press.

Zetzsche, Buckley, Arner & Barberis, “From FinTech to TechFin: The Regulatory Challenges of Data-Driven Finance”, (2018) Vol 14 (2) New York University Jnl of Law & Business, 393-446.

Arner, Barberis & Buckley, “The Evolution of FinTech: A New Post Crisis Paradigm?”, (2016) Georgetown Journal of International Law, 1271-1319.

Zhou, Arner & Buckley, “Regulation of Digital Financial Services in China: Last Mover Advantage” (2015) 8 (1) Tsinghua China Law Review 25-62.

FinReg Seminars (Zoom) in Nov 2020

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Prof Ross BUCKLEY and Prof John ARMOUR for being the speaker for the IIDS FinReg seminar. There are over 150 registrations oversea and local universities such as HKU, HKBU, HKCityU, HKLU, OUHK and UOWCHK for the seminars. Their presentations are extremely informative, and the active participation illustrated the importance of the topic to our colleagues and students.

The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

IIDS Zoom Seminar:
FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
AI in Legal Service
Morning Session:
11:00 to 12:15
Afternoon Session:
17:00 to 18:15
Date:
Thur, 12 Nov, 2020
Date:
Thur, 5 Nov, 2020
Speaker:
Prof Ross BUCKLEY
King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney.
Speaker:
Prof John ARMOUR
Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the  British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute
The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

Honourable Speakers

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Prof Ross BUCKLEY (KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney— the University of New South Wales Sydney) and Prof John ARMOUR ( Professor of Law and Finance, Oxford University, and Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute) for accepting our invitation to be the speaker of the IIDs FinReg Seminars.

Prof Ross BUCKLEY
KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney— the University of New South Wales Sydney
Prof John ARMOUR
Professor of Law and Finance, Oxford University, and Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute

Prof John ARMOUR

Prof John ARMOUR is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the  British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute.  He was previously a member of the Faculty of Law and the interdisciplinary Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School (LLM). He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Auckland, the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Sydney. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association. Armour has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in company law, corporate insolvency law and financial regulation. He serves as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has been involved in policy-related projects commissioned by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (now BEIS), Financial Services Authority (now FCA) and Insolvency Service, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. He served as a member of the European Commission’s Informal Company Law Expert Group from 2014-19.

FinReg

Regulation of FinTech and disruptive innovation are widely recognized that such FinTech developments have many benefits that increase the provision of financial products. However, it is also a challenges for financial regulators to balance the launch of FinTech innovation against ensuring that the operation can be done in a safe markets environment. One way is to apply AI to reshape the field of legal professional. AI in legal service can be applied in contract analytics, due diligence and e-discovery.

The seminars will explore different ways in which emerging technology in financial markets could be regulated without stifling innovation. Adopting appropriate regulatory measures in response to FinTech initiatives is of significant importance for Hong Kong to ensure it retains its position as a leading international financial centre.

Prof Ross BUCKLEY

Prof Ross BUCKLEY is the KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and leads a $2.7 million five-year research project into the regulation of the data revolution. He chairs the Digital Finance Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He has consulted to governments departments in well over ten nations, including the U.S., and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale and Duke.