Working across Asia on international dispute resolution and AI governance — building the protocols, standards, and dispute-resolution mechanisms a careful AI transition will need, and convening the researchers, regulators, and frontier labs who will have to use them.
Adrian H. T. Mak is Legal Consultant and a co-founder of Anselmo Reyes KK, a boutique international dispute resolution firm he founded with the Hon. Anselmo Reyes SC, International Judge and Arbitrator, with offices across Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. He has served as tribunal secretary in 35+ international arbitrations (LCIA, ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, CIETAC, LMAA) and as law clerk in investor-state, commercial, energy, and construction disputes before the Singapore International Commercial Court.
He is also Chief of Staff (Global Affairs) at AI Safety Asia, where he organized four high-level sessions at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 — including the AI Crisis Diplomacy panel, Global South leadership, and the launch of the International AI Safety Report 2026 — with partners including Mila–Quebec, the UK AI Security Institute, JPMorgan Chase, and the Atlantic Council.
From 2025 to 2026 he was the inaugural Fellow and first hire of Stanford Law School's AI Initiative, where he built the program's research and stakeholder engagement function — convening more than fifty AI researchers, legal scholars, and senior practitioners from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and the international bar around AI liability, agentic-AI governance, and AI in dispute resolution. Before that he was a Magic Circle trainee at Slaughter and May in Hong Kong, advising on landmark technology-related M&A, capital markets, and competition matters.
His research has appeared with Cambridge University Press, Hart/Bloomsbury, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and the Asian Yearbook on International Economic Law. He holds an LL.M. from Stanford Law (with Honors in five courses, and the Bloomberg Prize and Scorecard.io Prize at the 2025 Stanford Codex Hackathon) and a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong.
Across dispute resolution and AI governance — advising, drafting, convening, and arguing for the standards, protocols, and dispute-resolution mechanisms that responsible AI deployment demands.
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From the Stanford LL.M. Hackathon to ADB missions in Yerevan, mediator training in Japan, and APEC's Voice of the Future in Peru — a few of the rooms the work has happened in.
Selected events I've organized, hosted, or spoken at — and a few coming up.
Academic experience, publications, admissions, and pro bono work. Updated August 2026.
Open to invitations to speak, write, advise, and convene. Particularly interested in collaborations on agentic-AI governance, AI liability, semiconductor disputes, the institutional architecture of cross-border AI cooperation — and on the harder questions of arbitration and mediation in an algorithmic age.