Academic Activities
A recent record of conferences, forums, lectures, and scholarly exchanges. Chinese-source reports are presented here with concise English translations for orientation.
Professor Wang joined the fifth Mainland-Hong Kong-Macao legal education deans forum as editor-in-chief of Asia Pacific Law Review and discussed a new normative framework for international rule-making amid geopolitics and sustainable development.
CCCL announced the Oxford University Press publication of Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?, co-edited by Professor Wang. The report notes that the volume grew from distinguished online lectures, workshops, and an international conference supported by CCCL, Wuhan University, and Fudan University.
The training report notes that Professor Wang joined experts from universities, research institutes, and CCPIT-linked institutions to lecture for the second APEC成果转化专题培训班. His session addressed APEC's positioning and distinctive role in a period of major international change.
HKCML and CCCL jointly held a seminar on global power rivalry and the future of international law. Professor Wang moderated the session, which featured speakers from CUHK, CityUHK public and international affairs, and CityUHK School of Law.
The programme listed Professor Wang as the speaker for the course on legal and compliance risks faced by Chinese enterprises going overseas amid geopolitical change, covering sanctions, nationalization, anti-subsidy investigations, patent alliances, foreign-related compliance, and cross-border dispute resolution.
Fudan University's foreign-related rule-of-law and national-security research centers hosted the online interdisciplinary seminar. Professor Wang was listed among the keynote speakers discussing U.S. strategy, international legal order, and the changing relationship between U.S. power and international law.
Professor Wang joined the Guangzhou Forum 2025 summit dialogue on domestic and international political-economic forecasts for 2026, discussing near- and medium-term trends with experts from policy, business, and academia.
Sun Yat-sen University's announcement listed Professor Wang as the speaker for the 40th Foreign-Related Rule of Law Masters Forum. The lecture focused on geopolitical pressure on the international economic order, rule-making, agenda control, and China's engagement with global economic governance.
At the HKU-ALSA Young Scholars Conference, Professor Wang acted as a discussant in the AI and Law session and gave guidance from an editor's perspective on articulating original scholarly contributions.
Fudan University's Foreign-Related Rule of Law Research Center convened the seminar at Jiangwan campus. Professor Wang joined the dialogue and keynote sessions on the future of international economic law, including state-owned enterprise rules, a possible WTO-1 structure, and the national turn in the field.
CCCL hosted a guest seminar on qualitative research methods in socio-legal studies. The event flyer listed Professor Wang as moderator, connecting empirical research methods with legal and social inquiry.
Professor Wang attended the signing of an MoU between CCCL and the University of Cologne's Institute of East Asian Studies to support academic exchanges, joint research, and publication sharing.
CCCL hosted a closed-door academic salon with Professor He Xin of the University of Hong Kong on The Judicial System of China. Professor Wang chaired the event and framed the discussion for JSDCJ participants and visiting candidates.
Professor Wang attended the Third Foreign-Related Rule of Law Forum in Shenzhen and spoke on methodological issues in foreign-related rule of law.
Professor Wang was invited to speak at the international symposium on multilateralism and international rule of law, where he addressed the changing role of international law in an era of multipolar transformation.
CCCL hosted Professor Lu Haitian's lecture on reshaping legal services and launched AI-Tutor Agent. Professor Wang was deeply involved in developing the legal AI teaching assistant with WiseLaw Digital Technology.
Professor Wang moderated the International Law on Campus event featuring senior officials from the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs on climate change, law of the sea, Palestine, and plastic-pollution treaty negotiations.
CCCL hosted Professor Samgat Yermekbayev's lecture on cybersecurity, law, technology and governance. The report states that Professor Wang chaired and commented on the lecture.
The Guangzhou Institute of the Greater Bay Area and CityUHK School of Law co-hosted the seminar. Professor Wang delivered a keynote comparing Hong Kong and Singapore and raised governance questions about strategic officials, government roles, top-level design, industrial policy, and market economy for Greater Bay Area development.
Professor Wang attended the signing ceremony for CCCL's cooperation agreement with Durham University's Global Policy Institute, covering scholar visits, research collaboration, and publication exchange.
CCCL hosted a lecture on the future of international economic law, with Professor Wang chairing the discussion and CityUHK faculty serving as discussants.
Shaanxi CCPIT held its fourth 2025 lecture hall and study session on Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law. Professor Wang lectured on the requirements and meaning of foreign-related rule of law, changes in the multilateral international economic order, geopolitical and major-power strategy pressures on global trade, and responses to trade disputes and sanctions.
At Zhejiang Gongshang University School of Law's seminar, Professor Wang spoke on paradigm shifts and plural reconstruction of the international financial and monetary order under geopolitical challenges.
The Silk Road Institute for International and Comparative Law announced Professor Wang's in-person lecture, titled China and International Rule-making: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework, at the Xingqing campus on 28 May 2025.
Professor Wang attended the forum and related cooperation activities; the report also notes that he delivered an academic lecture on paradigm shifts and plural reconstruction in the international monetary and financial order.
At UNESCAP's expert group meeting on emerging trends in regional trade agreements, Professor Wang discussed state-owned enterprises, competitive neutrality, governance standards, and regulatory approaches in RTAs.
Professor Wang represented CityUHK at the Guangzhou symposium, signed a cooperation agreement with Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court, and participated in the release of selected case outcomes.
Professor Wang spoke at the Guangzhou Forum annual meeting on Hong Kong and Singapore as international metropolitan models, highlighting legal systems, openness, markets, business environment, and AI governance.
Professor Wang spoke on foreign sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction risks facing Chinese enterprises operating overseas, focusing on the legal nature of sanctions, jurisdictional reach, and response strategies.
CCCL recorded Professor Wang's invitation to SenseTime's tenth-anniversary Global AI Summit, a technology-policy event relevant to AI governance, legal education, and emerging regulatory issues.
Professor Wang was invited to present at the fifth seminar on foreign-related legal construction, continuing his work on China's foreign-related rule-of-law project.
CityUHK School of Law joined ACLF as the only Hong Kong law school founding member, a development linked in the report to Professor Wang's leadership in corporate law and governance research.
At the IPP forum co-hosted by South China University of Technology's Institute of Public Policy and Exploration and Free Views, Professor Wang served as a session reviewer and offered comments on cultural identity, social foundations, modernization, and related public-policy debates.
The symposium brought together scholars and legal professionals from Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong, including Sun Yat-sen University scholars. Professor Wang chaired the opening ceremony and spoke in the session on GBA rule linkage and legal-cooperation pathways.
CCCL and GIG co-organized a conference on legal and institutional cooperation in the Greater Bay Area, with Professor Wang introducing the conference and programme.
The international conference formed part of the research process behind Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven?, co-edited by Professor Wang, Ignacio de la Rasilla, and Cai Congyan.
CCCL recorded Professor Wang's invitation by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade to attend the 21st East Asia Forum.
In light of the forthcoming Histories of International Law in China: All Under Heaven? volume, CCCL, Wuhan University Law School, and Fudan University Law School organized a public lecture series. Professor Wang delivered the welcome speech and introduced the project background.
HKCML and CCCL co-organized an online conference on climate change after the pandemic, opened by Professor Wang and Professor Alexander Loke.
JERI and CCCL organized a workshop on China's judicial reform, co-hosted by Professor Lin Feng and Professor Wang, with Professor Wang also chairing the second discussion session.
At CityUHK School of Law's research retreat, Professor Wang presented CCCL's recent events, workplan, and future plans as director of the Centre.