Congratulations to our 11 colleagues who were successful in the 2018-2019 round of research grant funding by Hong Kong's Research Grants Council (RGC). The success rate for General Research Fund (GRF) projects was 73%, a little better than last year. The projects cover a range of legal topics of importance to Hong Kong, China and beyond. This year the largest grant was awarded to Dr Richard Wu for his ongoing and expansive study of law student values. This is the fifth RGC grant Dr Wu has received in support of his comparative study of law students in 14 jurisdictions. The details of the new 11 GRF projects are as follows:
- Weixia Gu, The (Recognition and) Enforcement of Mainland Judgments in Hong Kong: A Regional Conflict of Laws Study, $590,000, 36 months
- Angela Zhang, Antitrust and the Rise of China: An Institutional Analysis, $637,440, 36 months
- Shahla Ali, Soft Law from the Ground Up: The Role of the UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific in the Formation of Transnational Dispute Settlement Norms, $688,080, 36 months
- Thomas Cheng, Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement in China, $594,100, 36 months
- Rebecca Lee, Rationalising Recovery for Mistaken Transfers at Common law and in Equity?, $347,200, 24 months
- Haochen Sun, Buildinga Robust Trademark Fair Use Mechanism in China, $540,500, 36 months
- Albert Chen, Constitutional governance in ‘Greater China’ and the Unfinished Project of Chinese Constitutionalism, $491,980, 24 months
- Peter Chau, Examining non-instrumental justifications for tort compensation, $260,000, 24 months
- Shitong Qiao, Eminent Domain in Chinese Courts: An Empirical Study, $450,653, 36 months
- Lusina Ho, Legal Reform of Enduring Powers of Attorney: A Comparative Analysis, $434,298, 24 months
- Richard Wu, An Empirical and Comparative Study of Law Students’ Perceptions of Their Values in Four Emerging and Transitional Economies: China, Russia, South Africa and Kazakhstan, $918,160, 36 months
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