Alvin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He examines law as a site of negotiation between technological rationality and socio-cultural meaning. He is interested in how legal concepts evolve in response to technological and social change, while remaining shaped by underlying ideologies. His recent work critically engages with digital property and distributed ledger regimes, AI and machine learning—focusing on how these technologies influence legal thinking, particularly in private law, across diverse legal traditions.

Alvin also writes on property law, labour relations, and the humanities, with a regional interest in China and Southeast Asia, including the role of cultural contexts and customs.

His work has appeared in journals such as The Cambridge Law Journal, Big Data & Society, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, International Journal of Law in Context, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, Asian Journal of Law and Society, Work, Employment & Society, Law and Critique, Law, Culture and the Humanities, as well as several U.S.-based tech law journals. Alvin holds a DPhil from Oxford, an LLM from the LSE, and an LLB from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Before entering academia, he practiced as a solicitor in Hong Kong.