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CUHK LAW CLINDS’s 26th LegalTech Seminar – ‘The New UNCITRAL Model Law on Automated Contracting – Significance & Evaluation’ by Prof. Eliza Mik (Online)
2024年10月3日
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (HKT)
Online via Zoom
Dr Eliza Mik teaches Legal Technologies, E-Commerce Law and Contract Law at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on the legal aspects of transaction automation, with special focus on smart contracts and the integration of Artificial Intelligence into commercial workstreams. Before joining academia, she worked in-house for a number of software and telecommunications companies in Australia, Poland, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates, advising on technology procurement, software licensing and e-commerce regulation. Eliza has also assisted the World Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. At present, she is a member of the UNCITRAL Expert Group for the Digital Economy, a member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform on ODR (Hong Kong), a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Society and Technology and an Affiliate Researcher with the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13695284
Registration Deadline: 12:00 nn (HKT), 2 October 2024
In July, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) adopted the Model Law on Automated Contracting (“MLAC”). The MLAC provides a legal framework for the use of automated systems in international contracts, including through the deployment of artificial intelligence techniques and “smart contracts”, as well as in machine-to-machine transactions. It is intended to complement and supplement existing laws on electronic transactions, particularly those based on other UNCITRAL electronic commerce texts, which have been enacted in more than one hundred jurisdictions. The MLAC is the first legislative text to result from exploratory work conducted by UNCITRAL on legal issues related to the digital economy and digital trade. The instrument not only confirms the ability to conduct business by fully automated means, without any human involvement or review, but also recognizes that contractual terms might take the form of computer code and refer to external data sources that provide dynamic information. Crucially, it addresses important aspects of attributing actions of computer systems to the users of such systems and attempts to address the risk of unexpected actions carried out by automated systems. The seminar is one of the first events devoted to this new, important instrument.
It addresses the following questions:
– What are the main provisions of the MLAC? What is their purpose? Will they solve existing challenges or create new areas of uncertainty?
– If implemented, how would the MLAC affect the existing legal framework governing the contracting process in Hong Kong and in common law jurisdictions in general?
– How does the MLAC relate to UNCITRAL’s flagship instrument, the Model Law on E-Commerce, which formed the foundation for the Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553)?
– Should the MLAC be implemented locally?
Language: English
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
