The 10th Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) Conference will be held on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 September 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, Hong Kong SAR China.

Theme of Conference

The theme of the 10th APSN Conference is ‘Privacy and Data Protection in the Age of Intelligent Systems’.  We encourage the submission of papers engaging with this broad theme and exploring contemporary issues relating to privacy law, data protection and the interaction of these laws with related fields of technology regulation, in particular the governance of AI and other data-driven technologies.

Potential sub-themes may include (but are not limited to):

• Emerging Technologies and Privacy Regulation

• Aligning AI Governance and Data Protection

• Privacy Risks in Generative, Agentic and Biometric AI Systems

• Rethinking Data Subject Rights in the Age of AI

• Cross-border flows and data sovereignty in the Age of AI

• Privacy & Accountability by Design for AI Systems

• The Intersection of AI, Ethics, & Public Trust

We invite a wide range of submissions that deal with the chosen issues cross-jurisdictionally or with a focus on national laws and regulatory schemes in Asia and beyond. All methodological approaches are welcome, including comparative, theoretical or empirical and interdisciplinary scholarship. The conference is open to APSN members as well as privacyacademics, practitioners, policy makers, regulators and non-legal scholars who identify with the aims of the APSN.

To enrich the conference with diverse perspectives, we particularly invite the participation of junior scholars and of researchers from the developing parts of APAC and the Global South.A number of travel grants for APSN members with limited funds are available.

Call for Papers

Participants are requested to submit their paper proposal to https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13725673 by 15 April 2026.

The proposal should include: (i) Paper Title; (ii) Abstract (up to 300 words); (iii) Short biography of presenter(s) (up to 150 words); (iv) whether you would like your paper to be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law (details to follow); (v) whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.

Conference Website

More details (including registration details and the draft programme) will be made available here: https://webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk/conf/20260924/

Dates to Remember:

Paper proposal (title, abstract, short bio etc) submission: 15 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: 6 May 2026
Paper submission: 17 August 2026

Submission Procedure: 

Please submit your proposal using the submission link at https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13725673. Please ensure that your proposal includes all the information listed above.

Conference Co-Convenors:

Stuart Hargreaves and Normann Witzleb
CUHK LAW, Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society