Caroline Langley, barrister and founder of Just Law Education

About

Caroline Langley is a cross-border family law barrister with over 30 years' experience across Hong Kong, England and Wales, Ireland, Colorado and the US Federal Courts. A dual qualified scientist and lawyer, she brings technical fluency to complex disputes, with a particular focus on international surrogacy, child abduction, and other multijurisdictional family law matters. She is also the founder of Family Law International and Just Law Education, where she develops AI legal technology tools and lectures extensively on the use of AI in legal practice.


Practice & Jurisdictions

Practice & Jurisdictions

Caroline has practised across four jurisdictions for over thirty years. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales (the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn) in 1989, to the Bar of Hong Kong in 1997, and to the Bar of the Republic of Ireland in 2017. She was admitted to the Bar of Colorado in 2003 and to the United States District Court, Tenth Circuit, in 2006. She served as an Assistant Attorney General in Denver, Colorado in 2003. In 2018 she worked at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She practises from Justice Chambers in Hong Kong.

Education & The Profession

Education & The Profession

Caroline has been a National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Certified Trainer since 2003. She has lectured part time at three Hong Kong universities between 1992 and 2015, on PCLL and LLB programmes at the University of Hong Kong, the City University of Hong Kong, and HKU SPACE. She has delivered CPD accredited seminars at the Law Society of Hong Kong on such topics as jurisdictional and financial implications of international cases.

International Recognition

International Recognition

Caroline has spoken at the European Parliament in Brussels (2020), the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2018), Trinity College, Dublin (2019), the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Symposium on the Hague Convention (Tokyo, 2013), the IAML annual meetings in Singapore (2012) and Buenos Aires (2013), the AFCC annual conference (Denver, 2010), and the United States Army JAG school (Fort Carson, 2011). She is a past Chair of the American Bar Association Hong Kong City Chapter (2014), past Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (2010 to 2017), and is listed in Doyle's Guide to Leading Family Law Barristers in Hong Kong (2016).

Just Law Education

Just Law Education

She is the founder of Just Law Education (Hong Kong, 2024) and the founder of Briefcase, the AI platform for Court facing documents under the Matrimonial Causes Rules. She is the author of the forthcoming Hong Kong University Press book for litigants in person in the Hong Kong Family Court (publication 2026).


"My mission is to improve access to justice. No one should be excluded from the legal system because it is too complex to understand or too expensive to navigate. Through my practice at the Bar, my AI tools, and my training initiatives, I work to make the law more accessible, practical, and usable."

Caroline