tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30517172994638189202024-03-19T11:30:31.770+08:00HKU Legal Scholarship BlogFollow the research activities and scholarship of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong KongSimon NM Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11306243703903112785noreply@blogger.comBlogger1963125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-27576523592549000682024-03-19T11:30:00.001+08:002024-03-19T11:30:00.155+08:00Peter Chau on Commentary on “Responsibility for Health and the Value of Choice” (Palgrave Macmillan Book Chapter)"Commentary on “Responsibility for Health and the Value of Choice”"Peter Chauin Hon-Lam Li (ed), Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics, (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, February 2024), pp. 109–120Published online: February 2024Abstract: This chapter is a commentary on T. M. Scanlon’s Lanson Lecture in Bioethics. It discusses whether theHKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-2199526723975466972024-03-18T11:30:00.002+08:002024-03-18T11:30:00.123+08:00Shane Chalmers and Desmond Manderson on Vortext (Law & Literature)"Vortext"Shane Chalmers and Desmond MandersonLaw & LiteraturePublished online: February 2024Abstract: This article introduces the special issue of Law & Literature on “Colonial Legal Imaginaries | Southern Literary Futures”. The aim is to advance two imperative tasks. The first, analytic, task is to pay attention to the diversity of colonial imaginaries across the very different HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-38581846008461391192024-03-15T11:30:00.000+08:002024-03-15T11:30:00.130+08:00Taorui Guan on Cooperative Federalism and Patent Legislation: A Study Comparing China and the United States (CJIL)"Cooperative Federalism and Patent Legislation: A Study Comparing China and the United States"Taorui GuanChicago Journal of International Law (vol. 24, no. 2 (2024), pp. 259-304)Published online: February 2024Abstract: How should patent legislative power be allocated between central and local governments in order to construct a patent system conducive to promoting innovation? A comparative HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-59590533756233183332024-03-14T11:30:00.001+08:002024-03-14T11:30:00.140+08:00New Book edited by Po Jen Yap and Mathias Siems: The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press)The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative LawEdited by Mathias Siems, Po Jen YapCambridge University PressPublished in February 2024780 pp.Book Description: Comparative law is a common subject-matter of research and teaching in many universities around the world, and the twenty-first century has aptly been termed 'the era of comparative law'. This Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law presents aHKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-81113690094447028402024-03-13T11:30:00.000+08:002024-03-13T11:30:00.126+08:00New Book Edited by Kelley Loper et al: Gender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in AsiaGender, Sexuality and Constitutionalism in AsiaEdited by Wen-Chen Chang, Kelley Loper, Mara Malagodi, Ruth Rubio-MarínBloomsbury PublishingPublished in January 2024384 pp.Description: This book analyses the equal citizenship claims of women and sexual and gender diverse people across several Asian jurisdictions. The volume examines the rich diversity of constitutional responses to sex, HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-59294732730749407982024-03-12T11:30:00.000+08:002024-03-12T11:30:00.147+08:00Ziyue Zhou and Kwan Yuen Iu on Catalyst for Common Law Evolution: Experiment with ChatGPT and a Hypothetical Common Law Jurisdiction (Asian Journal of Law and Economics)"Catalyst for Common Law Evolution: Experiment with ChatGPT and a Hypothetical Common Law Jurisdiction"Kwan Yuen Iu and Ziyue Zhou (PhD candidate)Asian Journal of Law and EconomicsPublished Online: 5 January 2024Abstract: This paper aims to carry out empirical analysis of the viability of large language models (LLMs), specifically ChatGPT, in simulating the common law system and facilitating its HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-8170684242895296262024-03-11T10:46:00.000+08:002024-03-11T10:46:28.646+08:00HKU LAW Junior Academic Fellows: Call for ApplicationsHKU LAW Junior Academic Fellows: Call for ApplicationsHKU Faculty of Law has established a pre-doctoral fellowship, which will be awarded to law graduates in and from Hong Kong who have recently obtained a master degree in law from a leading international law school. Recipients of the fellowship will serve as a junior academic fellow in the Faculty of Law for up to one year with a competitive HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-32245764716551840222024-03-11T10:43:00.000+08:002024-03-11T10:43:05.504+08:00Taorui Guan on Intellectual Property Legislation Holism in China (University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review)"Intellectual Property Legislation Holism in China"Taorui GuanUniversity of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, (vol. 18, (2023), pp. 81-140)Published online: December 2023Introduction: Over the past forty years, Western policy makers, commentators, and scholars have followed the development of China’s intellectual property system with interest. Many Western countries have exported HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-45932268531006115892024-03-08T11:30:00.002+08:002024-03-08T11:30:00.128+08:00James WC Lee on Anti-Corruption in a Party-State: Constitutional Implications of China's Supervisory Reform (Asian Journal of Comparative Law) "Anti-Corruption in a Party-State: Constitutional Implications of China's Supervisory Reform"James WC Lee (HKU Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme)Asian Journal of Comparative Law Volume 18 , Issue 3 , pp. 389 - 406Published in December 2023Abstract: The 2018 amendments to the People's Republic of China (PRC) Constitution saw the establishment of a system of supervisory HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-57889050534572294332024-03-07T11:30:00.003+08:002024-03-07T11:30:00.243+08:00Taorui Guan on Investors’ Perspective on Intellectual Property Financing (Seton Hall Law Review)"Investors’ Perspective on Intellectual Property Financing"Taorui GuanSeton Hall Law Review (vol. 54 (2023), pp. 439-503)Published online: November 2023Abstract: The intellectual property system is generally considered to be a legal system that promotes innovation. But the ways through which it achieves this goal are still not entirely clear. Conventional intellectual property HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-50103015035979228342024-03-06T15:15:00.002+08:002024-03-06T15:15:53.197+08:00Simon Young on Hong Kong's Comparative Law (New Book Chapter)"Hong Kong"Simon Youngin Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.193–199Published online: December 2023I. IntroductionHong Kong became a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of → China on 1 July 1997. Before then, it was a British colony for more than 150 years. The law of England had full force in the colony of Hong Kong except where it was HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-20285820732924798002024-03-06T15:15:00.000+08:002024-03-06T15:15:18.210+08:00Albert Chen on China's Comparative Law (New Book Chapter)"China"Albert Chenin Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.229–235Published online: December 2023I. IntroductionsChinese civilization reached a high level of development at the same time as that of ancient Greece and Rome. A legal tradition evolved in China that shaped the traditional legal systems in → Korea, → Japan and → Vietnam. A sophisticated philosophyHKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-43819626081330102992024-03-06T15:14:00.002+08:002024-03-06T15:14:46.057+08:00Ryan Whalen on Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law (New Book Chapter)"Quantitative Methods in Comparative Law"Ryan Whalenin Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.277–283Published online: December 2023I. Overview and backgroundQuantitative comparative law includes any research that entails the collection and analysis of quantitative data with the aim of comparing legal systems or jurisdictions. As such it is a large, and HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-50168105289856565792024-03-06T15:14:00.000+08:002024-03-06T15:14:06.102+08:00Shane Chalmers on Colonialism and Law (New Book Chapter)"Colonialism and Law"Shane Chalmersin Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.282–291Published online: December 2023I. OriginsThe emergence of ‘colonialism and law’ as a discrete field of study is typically dated to the 1980s (Merry [1991]; Comaroff [2001]; Merry [2003]; Mawani [2015]). Studies of law in colonial contexts were increasingly commonHKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-73216113802542017752024-03-06T15:13:00.000+08:002024-03-06T15:13:31.564+08:00Jedidiah J Kroncke on Law and Development (New Book Chapter)"Law and Development"Jedidiah J Kronckein Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.391–399Published online: December 2023I. IntroductionStudies that self-identify as within the field of ‘law and development’ posit that legal institutions and practices can be reformed to promote social development, traditionally through efforts funded by ‘developed’ countries in HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-91914306690626319962024-02-28T15:11:00.006+08:002024-03-12T19:32:52.672+08:00HKU Law Scholars Make Submissions on the 2024 Article 23 Bill and Consultation PaperIn January 2024, the Security Bureau of the HKSAR Government released its long-awaited Public Consultation Document on Basic Law Article 23 national security law proposals (“Safeguarding National Security: Basic Law Article 23 Legislation”). On 8 March 2024, the Safeguarding National Security Bill was presented to the Legislative Council for first and second reading. Scholars in the FacultyHKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-7701296126604054812024-02-09T17:00:00.001+08:002024-02-09T17:00:00.256+08:00Kung Hey Fat Choy 2024HKU Legal Scholarship Blog wishes everyone a Happy Chinese New Year 2024.Thank you to Richard Cullen for drawing and sharing his traditional annual cartoon to markThe Year of the Dragon.HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-1285389222269317852024-02-08T14:15:00.000+08:002024-02-08T14:15:31.461+08:00Shane Chalmers on The Rule of Law and International Development (OUP book chapter)"The Rule of Law and International Development"Shane Chalmersin Ruth Buchanan (ed.), Luis Eslava (ed.), Sundhya Pahuja (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (Oxford University Press 2023) Chapter 5Published online: December 2023Abstract: The aim of this chapter is twofold: to provide an overview of the international development project’s ‘rule of law’ agenda, HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-72133258915870657092024-02-06T17:30:00.001+08:002024-02-06T17:30:00.134+08:00Massimo Lando on Binding Advisory Opinions (CUP book chapter)"Binding Advisory Opinions"Massimo Landoin Russell Buchan (ed),Daniel Franchini (ed),Nicholas Tsagourias (ed), The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Prospects, (Cambridge University Press, December 2023),pp. 106 - 134Published online: December 2023Summary: In this chapter, Massimo Lando focuses on the advisory jurisdiction of international HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-44296941150070685292024-02-05T17:40:00.000+08:002024-02-05T17:40:15.114+08:00Peter Chau and Lusina Ho on Agreement and Restitutionary Liability for Mistaken Payments (OUP book chapter) "Agreement and Restitutionary Liability for Mistaken Payments"Peter Chau, Lusina Hoin Sagi Peari (ed.), Warren Swain (ed.), Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine, and Theory, (Oxford University Press,December 2023),pp. 181-200Published online: December 2023Abstract: This chapter considers two recent attempts that claim a defendant’s actual or hypothetical agreement as HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-27869698904705227572024-02-02T17:25:00.000+08:002024-02-02T17:25:07.566+08:00Massimo Lando on Three Goals of States as They Seek Advisory Opinions from ITLOS (AJIL Unbound) "Three Goals of States as They Seek Advisory Opinions from ITLOS"Massimo LandoAJIL Unbound (Volume 117 , 2023 , pp. 282 - 286)Published online: December 2023Extract: In most international tribunals, states alone can submit requests for advisory opinions.1 This is also true of requests to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) sitting in plenary composition. The United HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-58979689890484801772024-02-01T15:05:00.000+08:002024-02-01T15:05:31.358+08:00New Book: Archbold Hong Kong 2024 (Sweet & Maxwell)ARCHBOLD HONG KONG 2024Editor-in-Chief: The Hon Mr Justice BokharyGeneral Editor: Professor Simon YoungSweet & MaxwellOctober 2023Preface by the General EditorHong Kong said goodbye to a legal giant on 24 June 2023. Sir Ti Liang Yang made enormous contributions to the law in Hong Kong before 1997, especially in criminal cases. In his 40 years of service in the Judiciary, he adjudicated HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-24181519026344108112024-01-31T12:00:00.002+08:002024-01-31T12:03:20.433+08:00New book by Eric Ip: The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong Kong (Routledge)The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong KongEric IpRoutledgePublished in November 2023264 pp.Description: Public health law has been a subject of much controversy and contestation, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. This timely book inquires into the foundational principles of a form of public health law that takes seriously the inherent dignity of the HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-7948120253042330432024-01-29T17:55:00.000+08:002024-01-29T17:55:25.617+08:00Cora Chan on Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong (Human Rights Law Review)"Scholarship in Times of Constitutional Transformation: A View from Hong Kong"Cora ChanHuman Rights Law Review, Volume 24, Issue 1Published online: December 2023Abstract: Hong Kong's constitutional order has been undergoing a momentous transformation since 2020. The introduction of the Hong Kong National Security Law and the use of a plethora of other security tools have pushed Hong Kong's HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051717299463818920.post-47671444044070712862024-01-26T09:15:00.000+08:002024-01-26T09:15:12.032+08:00Ying Zhu Awarded 3rd prize of the 9th Qian Duan-sheng Award for Legal Research AchievementCongratulations to Ying Zhu (朱颖), whose article “Do clarified indirect expropriation clauses in international investment treaties preserve environmental regulatory space?” was awarded the 3rd prize of the 9th Qian Duan-sheng Award for Legal Research Achievement. The article was published in the HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, volume 60, issue 2, pp. 377-416, published in August 2019. &HKU Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05598421653921066625noreply@blogger.com0