Human Rights, Algorithmic Justice, and Global AI Policy

In this GPI workshop, we will invite distinguished experts from the UK judiciary and interdisciplinary researchers from the UK, Hong Kong, Germany and the United States to discuss these important topics. Please feel most welcome to join our discussion on Thursday, 15 May 2025.

This hybrid event is organised by the Global Policy Institute at Durham University and the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong. The event will be in person at Durham, and online via Zoom. Online participants will receive the Zoom invitation prior to the workshop upon registration.

Workshop Agenda

9.00 am - 9.30 am, Welcome and Opening Remarks
Prof. Volker Roeben, Dean of the Law School, Durham University

** 9.30 am – 10.10 am, Prof. Andrew Murray, Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

Presentation Title: Do we have a Human Right to a Human Lawyer and Judge?

** 10.10 am – 10.50 am, Prof. William Lucy, Professor, Durham University

Presentation Title: Algorithms Instead of Adjudication: Why?

10.50 am – 11.00 am, Coffee Break

** 11.00 am – 11.40 am, Xiaohan Liang, PhD candidate, University of Hong Kong

Presentation Title: AI and Criminal Sentencing in China: Applications, Misgivings, and 
Prospects

** 11.40 pm – 12.10 pm, Dr Zhiyu Li, Associate Professor in Law and Policy; Thematic Lead in Global Innovation and AI, Global Policy Institute, Durham University

Presentation Title: Can Artificial Intelligence Democratize Law?

12.10 pm – 1.40 pm, Conference Lunch

** 1.40 pm – 2.20 pm, Dr Benjamin Chen, Associate Professor and Director of the Law and Technology Centre, University of Hong Kong

Presentation Title: Bargaining in the Shadow of the Algorithm

** 2.20 pm – 3.00 pm, Dr Marianne von Blomberg, Fellow, Cologne University

Presentation Title: Algorithmic Public Regulation and Legality – Cases from Zhejiang Province

3.00 pm – 3.20 pm, Coffee Break

** 3.20 pm – 4 pm, Prof. Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago [online]

Presentation Title: Islands of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining a Democratic Digital Public Sphere

** 4 pm – 5 pm, Keynote Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales

Moderated by Dr Terry McGuinness, Legal Adviser to the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill

5 pm – 5.20 pm, Closing Remarks

Dr Benjamin Chen at HKU & Dr Zhiyu Li at Durham University