City University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong
CityU CPAL

Technology, Policy and Law Lab

Co-Directors

  • Prof Yanto CHANDRA, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Michael TSIMPLIS, Professor, School of Law

Objectives

Technology has had and will continue to have a significant impact on society. Our Lab has placed artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, biometrics, and robots) at the front and centre our collective quest to understand, explain and predict how they will affect policy and law, and how things get done in new ways as enabled by such technologies. For example, large language model artificial intelligence (LLM AI) has become pervasive and will have far reaching impact on public trust toward AI, the designs and delivery of public services using AI, to ways in which AI is influencing how work is performed in the legal sector. Our overarching goal is to produce research and engagement that creates impact to theory, policy, and practice.

Our Lab embraces the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars from diverse disciplines, in particular law, public policy, communication, and sciences. We aim to bring in the best minds in the field together to stay at the forefront of knowledge development in the fields.

Our research themes link directly to the subject of Digital Society, which is one of the University’s strategic research areas. These themes are also consistent with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the School of Law’s scholarly and research mission to engage in innovative interdisciplinary and cutting-edge research to solve complex issues and challenges facing the world.

The lab will focus initially on four areas:

  1. Artificial intelligence and its implications on policy, law, and ethics.
  2. The impacts of AI and other emerging technologies, such as disinformation, deep fakes, and crime.
  3. How AI will affect various types of occupations and industries.
  4. New regulatory frontiers related to AI, blockchain, drones, and biometrics.

Members

  • Prof Carrie Chunyan DING, Professor, School of Law
  • Prof Liang DONG, Assistant Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Ruiping FAN, Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Tianxiang HE, Associate Professor, School of Law
  • Prof Martin LAI, Assistant Professor, School of Law
  • Prof Fen LIN, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication
  • Prof Nicole LIU, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Keng Leng SIAU, Head, Department of Information Systems
  • Dr Man To TANG, Visiting Fellow, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Bill TAYLOR, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof June WANG, Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs
  • Prof Yuan WANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication
  • Prof Min XIE, Chair Professor, Department of Systems Engineering; Chair Professor, School of Data Science
  • Prof Xiaoling ZHANG, Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs