Research

Anne Cheung

完美情人

A piece of writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in August 2023.

August 25, 2023

Kelvin Low, Edmund Schuster, and Wai Yee Wan

The Company and Blockchain Technology

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have generated much excitement over the past decade, with proclamations that they would disrupt everything from elections to finance. Unsurprisingly, the much-maligned corporate form is also considered ripe for disruption. While certainly imperfect, and currently serviced by creaking legal infrastructure premised upon direct shareholdings, are its problems ones of centralization/intermediation? What exactly are the limits of…

August 11, 2023

Anne Cheung

AI 江湖多聲音

A piece of writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in July 2023.

July 13, 2023

Mingruo Yuan, Ben Kao, Tien-Hsuan Wu, Michael M. K. Cheung, Henry W. H. Chan, Anne S. Y. Cheung, Felix W. H. Chan, Yongxi Chen

Bringing Legal Knowledge to the Public by Constructing a Legal Question Bank Using Large-scale Pre-trained Language Model

Access to legal information is fundamental to access to justice. Yet accessibility refers not only to making legal documents available to the public, but also rendering legal information comprehensible to them. A vexing problem in bringing legal information to the public is how to turn formal legal documents such as legislation and judgments, which are often highly technical, to easily navigable and…

July 6, 2023

誰令你出局？

A piece of writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in May 2023.

May 25, 2023

Haochen Sun and Barton Beebe (NYU)

Charting Limitations on Trademark Rights

Trademark scholarship has focused largely on the protection of trademark rights against consumer confusion and the dilution of trademarks. Studies of limitations on trademark rights, meanwhile, have remained relatively peripheral, especially in jurisdictions outside of the United States. However, this reality is incongruous with the importance of the limitations, such as descriptive and nominative uses, in promoting freedom of commerce, market competition,…

May 12, 2023

Anne Cheung

院舍機械人

A piece of writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in April 2023.

April 6, 2023

Timothy Chan and Kelvin Low

DeFi Common Sense: Crypto-backed Lending in Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (‘CHEFPIERRE’)

One of the selling points of cryptoassets has been the ability to subject them to so-called ‘smart contracts’ embedded upon blockchains; yet, despite numerous common law decisions accepting cryptoassets as property, until Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (‘CHEFPIERRE’) no courts have had the occasion to consider how such property (in this case, an NFT) interact with these ‘smart contracts’. The case…

March 29, 2023

Haochen Sun

Elite Universities as Luxury Brands

The 2019 college admissions bribery scandal revealed uncomfortable truths about elite higher education and its conspicuous consumption. In this chapter, I explore the legal implications of treating higher education as a luxury good reflecting wealth and status. Like luxury goods companies, elite universities are regarded as owners of luxury brands. Just as companies such as Louis Vuitton, Ferrari, and Hermès own brands…

July 1, 2022

Anne Cheung

誰來管AI

A piece of writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in February 2023.

February 16, 2023