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23
Nov 2018
(Fri)

“One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series

Subject: Law-Related Courses, Professional Law Courses, Accounting, Corporate Governance, Investment Management

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Date & time: 23Nov 2018 (Fri)14:15 - 17:15 (Registration starts at 14:15)

Venue: Professor and Mrs Enoch Young Lecture Theatre (Room 204), 2/F Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)

Fee: HK$1,200

Speaker

Professor Gonzalo Villalta Puig ;

Professor Susan Finder

Professor Gonzalo Villalta Puig

Professor Gonzalo Villalta Puig is Head of the School of Law and Politics and Professor of Law at The University of Hull. He is the inaugural holder of The University of Hull established Chair in the Law of Economic Integration for his research into the constitutionalisation of free trade in non-unitary market jurisdictions. He was formerly Professor of Law and Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, which he served as Associate Dean (Research). Professor Villalta Puig is a Fellow of the European Law Institute, an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He chairs the International Association of Constitutional Law’s Research Group for Constitutional Studies of Free Trade and Political Economy and is a member of the Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals of the International Law Association. He is Associate Editor of the Global Journal of Comparative Law (Brill Nijhoff). Professor Villalta Puig serves on the Council of The University Hull and is a member of the Executive of The Committee of Heads of UK Law Schools.

Professor Susan Finder

Professor Susan Finder is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the School of Transnational Law of Peking University (Shenzhen). She received her undergraduate degree from Yale College, her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School. She is a scholar of China's judicial system (in comparative perspective), focusing on the evolution of the role and operations of the Supreme People's Court, with many years of experience in China-related legal practice. In her initial academic career (at what is now the City University of Hong Kong),she published the first comprehensive study of the operations of the Supreme People's Court. For many years thereafter, she practiced law, primarily with the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Professor Finder is also on the panel of arbitrators of several Chinese arbitration institutions, including the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. Much of her scholarship is published on her blog, the Supreme People's Court Monitor. The Harvard Law School Law Library lists the blog as one of the best resources for Chinese legal research.

Enquiry: Ms Lydia Yung / Tel: 2520 4665 (lydia.yung@hkuspace.hku.hk )

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“One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series

The “One Belt, One Road, Many Laws” Experts Talk Series aims to keep the policy, economic and professional communities informed of the latest knowledge and perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Each talk has two lectures delivered by outstanding international experts on specific legal aspects of BRI in the context of transnational economic integration. Professionals, policy analysts, investors, policy-makers and individuals interested in the BRI and transnational economic activities are welcome.

Talk 1: Transnational Economic Integration, Belt & Road, and the Chinese Courts

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Schedule

2.15pm	Registration
2.30pm	Welcoming by Professor William Lee, Director, HKU SPACE
2.45pm	Lecture 1 : Transnational Economic Integration and the Belt & Road Initiative
3.30pm	Coffee break*
3.45pm	Lecture 2: Impact of Belt & Road on the Chinese courts
4.30pm	Coffee break*
4.45pm	Plenary discussion
5.15pm	End

*Coffee/ tea and simple snacks will be served.

+A statement of attendance will be issued for participants.

Lecture 1 : Transnational Economic Integration and the Belt and Road Initiative

Professor Gonzalo Villalta Puig

Lecture 2 : Impact of Belt & Road on the Chinese courts

Professor Susan Finder