{"id":8338,"date":"2026-03-24T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/trail\/?page_id=8338"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:35:42","slug":"trailaidec2026-programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/trail\/trailaidec2026-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme &#8211; AI &#038; Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/law.nus.edu.sg\/trail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/03\/HomeImgDraft2.png\" alt=\"HomeImgDraft2\" height=\"3200\" width=\"6400\" title=\"HomeImgDraft2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tPROGRAMME\t<\/h3>\n\t<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-0\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" type=\"button\">Day 1 (Thursday, 10 December 2026)<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-angle-right\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-angle-down\">Collapse<\/i><\/button><\/a><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>TIME<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>SESSION<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.00 &#8211; 09.30AM<\/td>\n<td>Arrival \/ Registration of Guests<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.30 &#8211; 09.40AM<\/td>\n<td>Welcome by Conference Convenors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.40 &#8211; 09.45AM<\/td>\n<td>Welcome by Professor Andrew Simester<br \/>\nDean, Faculty of Law, NUS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.45 &#8211; 10.00AM<\/td>\n<td>Keynote Address by Guest-of-Honour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.00 &#8211; 10.45AM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Roundtable &#8211; AI Governance &amp; Liability: The Key Questions<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Prof David Tan\n<ul>\n<li>Kate Lee, Senior Legal Director &#8211; Head of APAC, Google<\/li>\n<li>Mark Lim, Chief Legal Counsel, IPOS<\/li>\n<li>Tony Yeo, Head of IP Practice, Drew &amp; Napier<\/li>\n<li>Rajesh Sreenivasan, Head of TMT Practice, Rajah &amp; Tann Singapore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.45 &#8211; 11.15AM<\/td>\n<td><em>Tea Break<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11.15 &#8211; 12.45PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 1 &#8211; The Big Picture (4 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Shyamkrishna Balganesh\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clemente Recabarren (UC Chile)<\/strong> &#8211;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shen Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;AI Law Competition and Collingridge Dilemma&#8217;s Policy Dimension&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sue Anne Teo (Harvard)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Can AI Agents have Rights?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ashiv Choudhary <em>et al<\/em> (Jindal Global)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Towards A Global AI Governance Framework Through Lessons From The Paris Agreement&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12.45 &#8211; 2.00PM<\/td>\n<td><em>Lunch<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.00 &#8211; 3.30PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 2 &#8211; AI, Human Decision-making and Legal Reasoning (4 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Christopher Yoo\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Right to a Human Decision&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Legg (UNSW)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;AI Advances and Judicial Defences &#8211; The Regulation of AI in the Courts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abdi Aidid (Toronto)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Judicializing Data Governance&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ilya Akdemir <em>et al<\/em> (NUS)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;AI-Judicial Simulation&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.30 &#8211; 4.00PM<\/td>\n<td><em>Tea Break<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.00 &#8211; 5.15PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 3 &#8211; AI &amp; Intellectual Property &#8211; Part 1 (3 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by He Tianxiang\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lee Jyh-An (CUHK)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Law of Knowledge Distillation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brian Downing (Mississipi)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;AI Over-Fixation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neethu Rajam (NLU Delhi)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Gaming on the Edge: Synthetic Intelligence, Immersive Entertainment and the Future of Creative Authorship&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.15PM &#8211; 6.30PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 4 &#8211; AI in Business: Competition, Employment and Corporate Liability (3 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Ernest Lim\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apostolos Chronopoulos (QMUL)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Enforcing Unfair Competition Law against AI-Driven Dark Patterns&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chen Yang (CityU)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Law of Employee Distillation and Cloning&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Siddharth Kanojia (Middlesex)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Fiduciary Black Boxes: Corporate Veil Doctrine in the Age of Agentic Decision Systems&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.30PM &#8211; 8.00PM<\/td>\n<td><em>Dinner at NUS Law<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<a role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><button id=\"fl-accordion--button-1\" aria-controls=\"fl-accordion--content-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" type=\"button\">Day 2 (Friday, 11 December 2026)<i data-label-icon=\"fas fa-angle-right\" data-active-icon=\"fas fa-angle-down\">Expand<\/i><\/button><\/a><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>TIME<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>SESSION<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09.00 &#8211; 10.30AM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 5 &#8211; Balancing Benefits &amp; Risks: Setting Standards (3 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Albert Yoon\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christopher Yoo (U Penn)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Role of Standards in Enabling the AI Stack&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jake Goldenfein (Melbourne)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Three Legal Forms of Human Oversight of AI and ADM: How Human Oversight Manages Agency and Accountability in Organisational Context&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julian Hsiang Luo (National Taiwan)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;From Compute to Coercion: Infrastructure-Based Responsibility for AI-Enabled Grey-Zone Harm&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.30 &#8211; 11.00AM<\/td>\n<td><em>Tea Break<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11.00 &#8211; 12.30PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 6 &#8211; AI Use in Specific Scenarios: Is there a Common Thread? (4 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Jeremias Adams-Prassl\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Albert Yoon (Toronto)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Assets and Liabilities: Pedagogical Use of AI&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nancy S Kim (Chicago-Kent)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Adhesive Terms and Liability for AI Agents&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Miao (CUHK) &amp; Andrew Simester (NUS)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Where Does the Guilty Mind Sit: Criminal Responsibility across the AI Spectrum&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christine Parker (Melbourne)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Governing AI&#8217;s Impact on Nonhuman Animals: A Novel Ethical-Legal Framework&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12.30 &#8211; 2.00PM<\/td>\n<td><em>Lunch<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.00 &#8211; 3.30PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 7 &#8211; AI &amp; Intellectual Property &#8211; Part 2 (3 papers)<\/strong><br \/>\nModerated by Guobin Cui\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Overcoming the AI Authorship Taboo&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ge Jiang (Tsinghua)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;How Little Human Control is Too Little for Copyright Claims in the AI Age?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tianxiang He (CityU)<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Stopping the Regulatory Chase: Charting a Path for Protectable AI-Generated Content&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.30 &#8211; 4.00PM<\/td>\n<td><em>Tea Break<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.00 &#8211; 5.30PM<\/td>\n<td><strong>Plenary Session 8 &#8211; Living with AI: What&#8217;s Next? 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