2025 Annual Conference
Lecture Series in Law and Economics
Lecture Series in Law and Economics features renowned scholars from around the world, exploring the application of economic analysis to legal and policy issues, and fostering dialogue among legal and economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
Title: Deterring Corporate Crime and an Assessment of U.S. Policy Governing Corporate Criminal Enforcement
Date and Time: February 12, 2026 (8:00 pm HKT)
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Discussant: Masaki Iwasaki, Seoul National University School of Law
Title: Price Drop Damages
Date and Time: January 20, 2026 (12:00 pm HKT)
Speaker: Professor Adriana Z. Robertson, Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law at the University of Chicago Law School
Discussant: Prof. Wenming Xu, China University of Political Science and Law
Title: How Legal Knowledge Spreads?: Economic and Empirical Analyses
Date and Time: December 22, 2025 (7:00 pm HKT)
Speaker: Professor Yun-chien Chang, Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law, Cornell Law School
Discussant: Prof. John Zhuang Liu, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Title: How Should the Legal Profession be Regulated?
Date and Time: May 28, 2025 (8:00 PM HKT)
Speaker: Professor Kyle Rozema, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Discussant: Professor Xiaohong Yu, Tsinghua University, Department of Political Science
Title: Why Constitutions Fail
Date and Time: April 22, 2025 (11:00 AM HKT)
Speaker: Professor Adam Chilton, Howard G. Krane Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
Title: Governance in US Startups: Protecting VCs and Founders (from each other)
Date and Time: March 12, 2025 (11:00 AM HKT)
Speaker: Professor Jesse M. Fried, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
