From: Normann
Witzleb (LAW) <n.witzleb@cuhk.edu.hk>
Sent: Wednesday
18 December 2024 11:39
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: Call for
Papers: CUHK CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference - 'Protecting the Digital
Consumer in Asia' (Deadline: 17 January 2025)
Dear Colleagues,
Please see below a Call for Papers for a forthcoming conference on "Protecting
the Digital Consumer in Asia" on Friday, 16 May 2025 (online/hybrid
tbc) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. As detailed below, we also
encourage submissions on developments in other world regions that are of
interest to Asian jurisdictions.
If you have any questions, please contact us at cctl.law@cuhk.edu.hk
or write to me directly.
Please feel free to circulate others who may be interested.
Best wishes
Normann
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 further 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 include:
- 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.
For enquiries, please contact us at cctl.law@cuhk.edu.hk.
Best regards,
Centre For Comparative and Transnational Law
CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL LAW
Faculty of Law | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Shatin, NT, Hong
Kong SAR, China
T: +852 3943 4399 | E: cctl.law@cuhk.edu.hk | W: https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk
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NORMANN WITZLEB
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Shatin, NT, Hong
Kong SAR, China
T: +852 3943 1274 | E: n.witzleb@cuhk.edu.hk | W: https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/people/normann-witzleb/
