Eric Ip
HKU Bulletin
Published in November 2024
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"As Chinese firms expand overseas, legal spotlight turns on cross-border disputes"
Alyssa Chen
South China Morning Post
6 October 2024
"China’s Pragmatic Approach to International Human Rights Law"
Sida Liu,Yun Xian, Sitao Li
The UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2024
Published online: October 2024
At the HKU Faculty of Law, Suhong is engaged in teaching activities and assisting the Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law in research-related activities. Prior to joining the HKU, Suhong was a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice, working with Judge H.E. XUE Hanqin. She also served the Office of the President of the U.N. International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and the Legal Policy Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Suhong holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Renmin University of China, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Georgetown University Law Center. In addition to the academic degrees, she also studied at the University of Oxford, Kathmandu School of Law, and Cheng-Chi University (Taiwan) in different capacities. Suhong has facilitated teaching or been invited to give guest lectures on tort law, international law, US law, and Chinese law at Georgetown University, Leiden University, and Renmin University.
Suhong is currently Vice-Chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and Secretary of ASIL Women in International Law Interest Group. She served as Co-Chair of ASIL New Professionals Interest Group from 2019 to 2023.
His writings have appeared in the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal and Research of Institutional Economics, and he has contributed chapters to several books. His research has been featured in several media outlets and academic blogs including the Financial Times, The Deal, Reorg, Oxford Business Law Blog, and Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable. He has received several research awards, including the Best Paper Award at the Annual Law and Economics Conference in China and the Most Innovative Presentation Award at the INSOL ERA Annual Workshop.
Dr Alex Huang holds a JSD and LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was named to the Dean’s List. He was also a Lloyd M. Robbins Fellow at the Berkeley School of Law and a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellow at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society. He earned his Bachelor of Laws from Sun Yat-sen University, where he received the China National Scholarship.
Before teaching Cross-border Insolvency Law at HKU Law, he taught Law and Economics I & II, Sociology of Law, Law in Chinese Society, and Fundamentals of U.S. Law as a lecturer and graduate student instructor in the legal studies program and the law school at UC Berkeley.
Huang is also a Research Associate at the Sun Yat-sen University Law and Economics Research Center, where he serves as a co-investigator for a key project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.
"A limited case for the closed material procedure: natural justice, open justice and the clear advantage variation"
Edward Lui
Legal Studies
Published online: October 2024
"The fatal shooting of a man with mental illness shows Hong Kong police need a better response to such crises"
Daisy Cheung
Hong Kong Free Press
Published online: October 2024
The recent incident in North Point involving the death of a man with mental disorder at the hands of police responding to an emergency at his home is tragic, but unfortunately not uncommon worldwide.
In jurisdictions all over the world, police often act as first responders in cases involving mental health crises, even though in most cases they severely lack training on how best to support such individuals. A quick search reveals the names of countless vulnerable individuals who met untimely deaths due to interactions with police over just the past year.
As the number of such deaths increase, places around the world are beginning to take a long, hard look at the suitability of police involvement in situations involving people with a mental disability.
Many countries are calling for police reform, and in some cases, even the police themselves have concluded that they may not always be the most appropriate responders, since their presence may be an “escalating factor” itself.
What lessons can Hong Kong learn from the experiences of these countries? First, the issue of police inadequacy in the face of mental health crises must be recognised and squarely confronted, rather than swept under the rug as merely another incident where the fatality was unfortunate, but the use of force justifiable in the circumstances.
Concerns about how police in Hong Kong deal with people with mental disability are not new. In 2015, an autistic individual was wrongfully charged with manslaughter......(Please click here to view full text.)
"General Public Policy Exceptions in International Investment Agreements (IIAs): Opportunities and Challenges in Times of Global Health Crisis"
Yi Tang (PhD Candidate)
Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy
Published online: Oct 2024
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