“Addressing future challenges through legal research”
Organized by :


Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alison Lui
Associate Dean (Global Engagement), Faculty of Business and Law Liverpool John Moors University
Dr Alison Lui is a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law and the Associate Dean (Global Engagement) for the Faculty of Business and Law. She is joint Deputy Head of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice. Holding multiple awards for academic leadership, research and teaching, she is a strategic and student-centered higher education leader.
Alison specialises in Financial and Corporate Law. An active researcher and joint Deputy Head of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice, Alison is a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, Max Planck Fellow; Inner Temple Associate Academic Fellow; Churchill Fellow and LJMU Early Career Fellow. She has won research awards from the British Academy, Research England, the British Council, Society of Legal Scholars, the Honourable Society of Inner Temple, Association of Commonwealth Universities and several LJMU research grants.
Alison has published a monograph and an edited book with Routledge, various book chapters and many peer reviewed articles in top journals such as the Law, Innovation and Technology, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Information and Communications Technology Law, Journal of Banking Regulation and Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. In particular, her monograph is listed as one of the best Banking Law books and one of the best selling Banking Law books of all time. In particular, her article in 2018 on Artificial Intelligence and augmented intelligence collaboration is extremely highly cited.
Focus areas:-
- Public Law
- Private and Comparative Law
- Commercial Law
- Public International Law
- Information & Communication Technology and Law
Conference Chair

Dr. Kushanthi Harasgama
Conference chair