Hin is a law lecturer at the University of Oxford, and has extensive experience in the digital asset industry.
He has worked with the Outer Temple Fintech team on projects such as the ground-breaking reform of the DIFC’s Law of Security and the DIFC’s Digital Assets Law (DIFC DAL). He is currently working on the DIFC AI Law project with members of the Outer Temple team.
Hin has worked on various other cases involving digital assets including Fusang, UNIDROIT, Law Commission, and the Mongolian Government World Bank project.
He spent two years as a legal and business consultant at a blockchain securities exchange, and frequently advises governments and entities on legal and regulatory issues relating to digital assets. He has experience in drafting national laws concerning digital assets (including the DIFC’s Digital Assets Law and the Mongolian virtual assets law). He was also an Advisory Panel member of the Law Commission’s Digital Assets project, and a sub-group member of the UNIDROIT Working Group on Digital Assets and Private Law. He is an Advisory Panel member of the Law Commission’s ‘Digital Assets: which court, which law?’ project. He also has experience in drafting legislative provisions governing secured transactions.
Hin has published in peer-reviewed law journals since the age of 19, and has (actual or forthcoming) publications in journals including the Law Quarterly Review, Cambridge Law Journal, and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. His 21 publications cover the fields of digital assets, trusts, commercial, contract, tort, land, unjust enrichment, labour, civil procedure, constitutional and criminal law.
His DPhil thesis analyses the nature of digital assets under English private law, and answers four fundamental questions: (1) whether it is possible and normatively desirable to have property rights in digital assets, (2) how such rights should be acquired, (3) how they ought to be transferred, and (4) the appropriate extent of protection such rights should provide (e.g. against burning, misappropriation, freezing, and denial of access).
Hin holds an LLB from the University of Hong Kong (First Class, top graduate) and spent a year of his degree at the University of Cambridge. He also holds a BCL (Distinction and subject prize) and an MPhil in Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford, a Blockchain Executive Education Certificate from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PCLL from the University of Hong Kong.
News 6 Mar, 2025
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