Human Rights, Algorithmic Justice, and Global AI Policy

Co-organized by Global Policy Institute at Durham University and the Law and Technology Centre at HKU Faculty of Law

Dates: May 15 – 16, 2025

Venue: Durham Law School, United Kingdom

This conference is also available on Zoom.  Register to get the Zoom link.

4 pm – 4:30 pm (HK Time), Welcome and Opening Remarks
Prof. Volker Roeben, Dean of the Law School, Durham University

4:30 pm – 5:10 pm (HK Time), Prof. Andrew Murray, Professor of Law, LSE
Do we have a Human Right to a Human Lawyer and Judge?

5:10 pm – 5:50 pm (HK Time), Prof. William Lucy, Professor, Durham University
Algorithms Instead of Adjudication: Why?

Break

6 pm – 6:40 pm (HK Time), Xiaohan Liang, PhD candidate, The University of Hong Kong
AI and Criminal Sentencing in China: Applications, Misgivings, and Prospects

6:40 pm – 7:10 pm (HK Time), Dr. Zhiyu Li, Associate Professor in Law and Policy; Thematic Lead in Global Innovation and AI, Global Policy Institute, Durham University
Can Artificial Intelligence Democratize Law?

Lunch Break

8:40 pm – 9:20 pm (HK Time), Prof. Benjamin Chen, Associate Professor and Director of the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Algorithm

9:20 pm – 10 pm (HK Time), Dr. Marianne von Blomberg, Research Fellow, University of Cologne; Global Academic Fellow, The University of Hong Kong (incoming)
Algorithmic Public Regulation and Legality – Cases from Zhejiang Province

Break

10:20 pm – 11 pm of May 16 (HK Time), Prof. Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Islands of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining a Democratic Digital Public Sphere

11 pm – 12am (HK Time), Keynote Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales

Chair and moderator: Dr Terry McGuinness, Legal Adviser to the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill

12 am – 12:20 am (HK Time), Closing Remarks by Benjamin Chen (HKU) & Zhiyu Li (Durham University)

Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=100088

Inquiries: Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.