Troy Zhaoyi Song
Disputes & Tech Lawyer
Handling tech disputes and advisory work, building tech products for legal
About
Disputes lawyer in Hong Kong, qualified across three jurisdictions (England & Wales, Hong Kong, and mainland China), focusing on international arbitration, crypto disputes, and tech advisory. Curator of Hong Kong Arbitration Compendium (an open-access compendium containing over 1,000 arbitration-related judgments rendered by Hong Kong courts). Looking forward to the day when lawyers share their knowledge the way developers publish code on GitHub.
2 Projects
CaseThread
Chrome extension to analyze and organize court judgments using multiple AI models. Supports a "Bring Your Own Key" approach, giving users direct control over their AI providers and data.
Hong Kong Arbitration Compendium
An open-access compendium containing over 1,000 arbitration-related judgments rendered by Hong Kong courts, built with Claude Code and Gemini 3.5
Media Appearances
Annotating English Judgments for AI: Structural and Practical Challenges
Oxford Business Law Blog
An analysis of why English legal AI development lags behind China’s — arguing that inconsistent judgment writing styles and copyright restrictions on legal materials create an annotation bottleneck that slows NLP training.
Cyber Disputes – Are There Borders in the Blockchain?
HSF Inside Arbitration
A thought leadership piece examining jurisdictional challenges in blockchain disputes and how the borderless nature of crypto assets complicates traditional dispute resolution frameworks.
Hong Kong Court Ordered Disclosure to Maintain Healthy Operation of DAO
HSF Asia Disputes Notes
A case note analyzing how Hong Kong courts are addressing accountability in decentralized autonomous organizations, examining the Mantra DAO ruling.
ROAP Asia 2025 Finals
Delos Dispute Resolution
Named finalist in the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Programme Asia competition, competing against top practitioners from leading firms across the region.
In Shenzhen, AI Hardware Ships Like Freshly Baked Bread
Substack Article on AI Hardware in China
One afternoon in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, and what the shelves tell me about China's AI moment.