Events
CUHK LAW GBA Forum 2024 Online Seminar – ‘Harmonizing Business and Commercial Laws in the GBA: Approaches, Methods and Future Options’
10 Sep 2024
12:45pm – 1:45pm
Online via Zoom
Prof. Chao Xi, Professor, CUHK LAW
Chao XI is Professor and Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he concurrently serves as Associate Dean (Research) and Head of Graduate Division of Law. He also directs the Chinese Law Program of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK.
Professor Xi specialises in comparative corporate law, securities regulation, financial regulation, and empirical legal studies, with a particular focus on the case of China. He has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed international journals. His research has received significant funding support from the Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, the PRC Ministry of Education, the Government of India, and the Sumitomo Foundation.
Professor Xi holds visiting positions at various leading overseas institutions. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international peer-reviewed journals, including The China Review (SSCI-indexed), the Hong Kong Law (SSCI-indexed), and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (Thomas Reuters). Professor Xi is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), UK, and is on the panels of arbitrators in several arbitration institutions. He has regularly been engaged by law firms, multinationals, and government departments and agencies as an expert.
Because of its historical circumstances, the Greater Bay Area includes three different legal jurisdictions. Guangdong Province (specifically, the nine cities included in the GBA), the Hong Kong SAR and the Macau SAR have each developed an idiosyncratic body of doctrines, principles, institutions, rules, and practices that characterize and frame the ways in which businesses and commerce are conducted. The harmonization, within the constitutional framework of ‘one country, two systems’, of laws governing businesses and commercial transactions in the GBA promises to offer the economic attractions of lowering transaction actions and facilitating market integration. This talk will provide an overview of the initiatives that can be characterized as steps towards business and commercial law harmonization. It will also discuss possible future options for harmonization of business and commercial laws in the GBA.
The talk is supported by a Research Impact Fund grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. R4009-23).
Language: English
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
