Events
CUHK LAW CLINDS’s 11th Law & Digital Society Seminar – 'Digital Technology and Law' by Prof. Steven Gallagher (Online)
9 Aug 2023
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Online (Zoom)
Steven Gallagher is a Professional Consultant, Professor in Practice of Law (by courtesy), and Associate Dean (Academic & Student Affairs). Steven has taught various aspects of property law in England and Hong Kong. In 2013, Steven introduced the Principles of Art, Antiquities, Cultural Heritage and the Law course to the LLM programme at CUHK LAW. Steven presents a range of continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on topics in property law, art law, and law and technology. Steven’s research interests include issues in property law, legal history, the development of policy and law intended to promote and protect art, antiquities and cultural heritage, law and technology, Chinese custom and law, and innovative ways to teach law. The latter includes using superhero films for problem based learning, flipped classrooms and digital learning initiatives promoting asynchronous and distance learning. Steven has been widely quoted in newspapers and television reports regarding legal issues involving property law, art and cultural heritage.
Digital Technology and Law is an introduction into how digital technology and law interact. The book considers the interaction between digital technology and law in three ways:
-How digital technology is affected by law;
-How digital technology affects the practice of law; and,
-How law is affected by digital technology.
This book considers electronic digital technology including artificial intelligence, digital property, blockchains, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), and the metaverse. It provides explanations of how they work, and sometimes how they do not work. It also considers how this technology is used in the practice of law. This includes consideration of LegalTech, including artificial intelligence in the practice of law, cybercrime and cybersecurity. This book then considers how technology is affecting law. This includes issues arising from artificial intelligence and intellectual property, disputes involving digital property including theft, fraud, loss, divorce, death, tax, securities regulation, money laundering and insider dealing. The liability of many parties involved in electronic digital technologies are considered including blockchains, their nodes, platforms, exchanges, decentralised autonomous organisations, and those living, working and playing in the metaverse.
The text is written as a whole rather than as a collection of individually authored chapters and has been kept concise to assist readers, providing reference to more specific works if readers wish to delve deeper. The book’s main proposition is that it is impossible to work effectively in business, finance or the professions without some understanding of digital technology and how this may be affected by the law, and how it may affect the law. The book provides an introduction to digital technology and law for those who know something of technology but no law, those who know something of law but no technology, and those who may know little of technology or law.
Language: English
CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
