Programme

Day 1 (Thursday, 10 December 2026)

TIME	SESSION
09.00 - 09.30AM	Arrival / Registration of Guests
09.30 - 09.40AM	Welcome by Conference Convenors
09.40 - 09.45AM	Welcome by Professor Andrew Simester Dean, Faculty of Law, NUS
09.45 - 10.00AM	Keynote Address by Guest-of-Honour
10.00 - 10.45AM	Plenary Roundtable – AI Governance & Liability: The Key Questions Moderated by Prof David Tan Kate Lee, Senior Legal Director – Head of APAC, Google Mark Lim, Chief Legal Counsel, IPOS Tony Yeo, Head of IP Practice, Drew & Napier Rajesh Sreenivasan, Head of TMT Practice, Rajah & Tann Singapore
10.45 - 11.15AM	Tea Break
11.15 - 12.45PM	Plenary Session 1 – The Big Picture (4 papers) Moderated by Shyamkrishna Balganesh Clemente Recabarren (UC Chile) – Shen Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong) – “AI Law Competition and Collingridge Dilemma’s Policy Dimension” Sue Anne Teo (Harvard) – “Can AI Agents have Rights?” *Ashiv Choudhary et al* (Jindal Global)** – “Towards A Global AI Governance Framework Through Lessons From The Paris Agreement”
12.45 - 2.00PM	Lunch
2.00 - 3.30PM	Plenary Session 2 – AI, Human Decision-making and Legal Reasoning (4 papers) Moderated by Christopher Yoo Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford) – “The Right to a Human Decision” Michael Legg (UNSW) – “AI Advances and Judicial Defences – The Regulation of AI in the Courts” Abdi Aidid (Toronto) – “Judicializing Data Governance” *Ilya Akdemir et al* (NUS)** – “AI-Judicial Simulation”
3.30 - 4.00PM	Tea Break
4.00 - 5.15PM	Plenary Session 3 – AI & Intellectual Property - Part 1 (3 papers) Moderated by He Tianxiang Lee Jyh-An (CUHK) – “The Law of Knowledge Distillation” Brian Downing (Mississipi) – “AI Over-Fixation” Neethu Rajam (NLU Delhi) – “Gaming on the Edge: Synthetic Intelligence, Immersive Entertainment and the Future of Creative Authorship”
5.15PM - 6.30PM	Plenary Session 4 – AI in Business: Competition, Employment and Corporate Liability (3 papers) Moderated by Ernest Lim Apostolos Chronopoulos (QMUL) – “Enforcing Unfair Competition Law against AI-Driven Dark Patterns” Chen Yang (CityU) – “The Law of Employee Distillation and Cloning” Siddharth Kanojia (Middlesex) – “Fiduciary Black Boxes: Corporate Veil Doctrine in the Age of Agentic Decision Systems”
6.30PM - 8.00PM	Dinner at NUS Law

Day 2 (Friday, 11 December 2026)

TIME	SESSION
09.00 - 10.30AM	Plenary Session 5 – Balancing Benefits & Risks: Setting Standards (3 papers) Moderated by Albert Yoon Christopher Yoo (U Penn) – “The Role of Standards in Enabling the AI Stack” Jake Goldenfein (Melbourne) – “Three Legal Forms of Human Oversight of AI and ADM: How Human Oversight Manages Agency and Accountability in Organisational Context” Julian Hsiang Luo (National Taiwan) – “From Compute to Coercion: Infrastructure-Based Responsibility for AI-Enabled Grey-Zone Harm”
10.30 - 11.00AM	Tea Break
11.00 - 12.30PM	Plenary Session 6 – AI Use in Specific Scenarios: Is there a Common Thread? (4 papers) Moderated by Jeremias Adams-Prassl Albert Yoon (Toronto) – “Assets and Liabilities: Pedagogical Use of AI” Nancy S Kim (Chicago-Kent) – “Adhesive Terms and Liability for AI Agents” Michelle Miao (CUHK) & Andrew Simester (NUS) – “Where Does the Guilty Mind Sit: Criminal Responsibility across the AI Spectrum” Christine Parker (Melbourne) – “Governing AI’s Impact on Nonhuman Animals: A Novel Ethical-Legal Framework”
12.30 - 2.00PM	Lunch
2.00 - 3.30PM	Plenary Session 7 – AI & Intellectual Property - Part 2 (3 papers) Moderated by Guobin Cui Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia) – “Overcoming the AI Authorship Taboo” Ge Jiang (Tsinghua) – “How Little Human Control is Too Little for Copyright Claims in the AI Age?” Tianxiang He (CityU) – “Stopping the Regulatory Chase: Charting a Path for Protectable AI-Generated Content”
3.30 - 4.00PM	Tea Break
4.00 - 5.30PM	Plenary Session 8 – Living with AI: What’s Next? (4 papers) Moderated by David Tan Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino and Kimberlee Weatherall (Sydney) – “Translating AI Rules Across Borders: A Framework for Regulatory Interoperability” Celeste Lo Tin Yan (CUHK) – “Can an AI Constitution Grow? Constitutional AI and the Living Tree Doctrine” Neel Guha (Columbia) – “LegalBench2: Towards Measuring Subjective Quality in Legal Work” Alberto Costi (VU Wellington) – “Relational Responsibility and AI Governance: Pacific Perspectives on Soft Law, Accountability, and Technological Harm”
5.30 - 5.45PM	Wrap-up
6.00PM	Bus back to Hotel / Conference Dinner for Organisers and VIPs