cctl.law@cuhk.edu.hk<\/a><\/p>","details":"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.<\/p>\r\n
Digital services \u2013 whether e-commerce, social media, mobile apps, digital health or financial services, to name a few \u2013 present unique challenges for consumer protection laws around the world. In Asia, the situation is even more complicated 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.<\/p>\r\n
To provide a platform for discussing these issues, the CCTL Obligations Lab Asia at CUHK LAW will hold a hybrid\/online (tbc) conference on \u201cProtecting the Digital Consumer in Asia\u201d on Friday, 16 May 2025.<\/p>\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n
Potential topics for submission:
\r\n\u2022 Private law frameworks for consumer protection in digital marketplaces
\r\n\u2022 The role of contract and tort law in regulating digital services
\r\n\u2022 Reforming traditional consumer protection laws to protect the digital consumer
\r\n\u2022 Transparency and fairness in terms of service agreements
\r\n\u2022 Legal responses to misleading or manipulative conduct in digital markets
\r\n\u2022 Consumer rights, including liability rights, in the context of artificial intelligence and automated systems
\r\n\u2022 Harmonisation of consumer protection standards for digital trade across Asian jurisdictions
\r\n\u2022 Cross-border consumer protection in the digital economy
\r\n\u2022 Private enforcement of consumer protection laws in Asia
\r\n\u2022 Consumer empowerment and education in the digital age
\r\n\u2022 Developments in consumer protection laws in other world regions that are of interest to Asian jurisdictions
\r\n\u2022 Case studies and comparative analyses of digital consumer protection across Asian jurisdictions<\/p>\r\n
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.<\/p>\r\n
Call for Papers \u2013 CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference \u2013 \u2018Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia\u2019<\/a>
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