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Call for Papers – CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference – ‘Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia’
17 Jan 2025
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13698495
Submission Deadline: 12:00 am (HKT), 17 January 2025, Friday
As digital platforms, services and applications are becoming indispensable for everyday life, ensuring that consumers are adequately protected is more critical than ever. This conference aims to bring together legal scholars, practitioners and others to discuss emerging trends of consumer protection law across Asia and beyond. With a focus on private law, we seek to explore how existing legal frameworks need to be adapted to address new issues in safeguarding consumer rights and interests in the digital environment.
Digital services – whether e-commerce, social media, mobile apps, digital health or financial services, to name a few – present unique challenges for consumer protection laws around the world. In Asia, the situation is even more complicated because consumer laws and regulatory frameworks vary significantly across countries due to diverse legal traditions, policy preferences and levels of economic development. Issues such as misleading, manipulative and abusive conduct, opaque or unfair contract terms, inappropriate handling of personal data, enforcement of consumer laws have become pressing concerns.
To provide a platform for discussing these issues, the CCTL Obligations Lab Asia at CUHK LAW will hold a hybrid/online (tbc) conference on “Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia” on Friday, 16 May 2025.
We invite submissions that examine these topics from various legal, regulatory and interdisciplinary perspectives. We are equally interested in comparative work as well as papers that focus on a single jurisdiction and present innovative approaches for protecting consumer rights in the digital age.
Potential topics for submission:
• Private law frameworks for consumer protection in digital marketplaces
• The role of contract and tort law in regulating digital services
• Reforming traditional consumer protection laws to protect the digital consumer
• Transparency and fairness in terms of service agreements
• Legal responses to misleading or manipulative conduct in digital markets
• Consumer rights, including liability rights, in the context of artificial intelligence and automated systems
• Harmonisation of consumer protection standards for digital trade across Asian jurisdictions
• Cross-border consumer protection in the digital economy
• Private enforcement of consumer protection laws in Asia
• Consumer empowerment and education in the digital age
• Developments in consumer protection laws in other world regions that are of interest to Asian jurisdictions
• Case studies and comparative analyses of digital consumer protection across Asian jurisdictions
The conference is directed at emerging as well as established scholars and practitioners of private law. To express your interest in presenting at the conference, please submit a draft title, an abstract (between 150-300 words) and a short bio with your affiliation (no more than 150 words) to the CCTL Obligations Lab Asia using this submission link by Friday, 17 January 2025. Decisions on the acceptance of paper proposals and the invitation to present at the conference will be communicated before the end of January 2025.
Call for Papers – CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference – ‘Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia’
Language: English
