HKU Legal Scholarship Blog
Follow the research activities and scholarship of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Thursday, February 2, 2023
New Book in translation by Paul KC Chung Professor Scott Veitch in Jurisprudence et al: Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts (3rd Ed., Peking U Press)
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Albert Chen et al : Constitutional Politics in Asia (Oxford Bibliographies)
Kevin Y.L. Tan, P.Y. Lo, Albert H.Y. Chen
Oxford Bibliographies
Last Modified: 12 January 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
HKU Law Welcomes Dr Ying Zhu, Assistant Professor
1. “A Bottom-up Dilemma: International Investment Law and Environmental Governance,” in Vol. 48 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law (forthcoming);
2. “Do Clarified Indirect Expropriation Clauses in International Investment Treaties Preserve Environmental Regulatory Space?,” in Vol. 60.2 Harvard International Law Journal, 377-416 (2019);
3. “Environmental Discrimination in International Investment Law,” in Vol. 51 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 385-433 (2019);
4. “Fair and Equitable Treatment of Foreign Investors in an Era of Sustainable Development,” in Vol. 58.2 Natural Resources Journal, 319-363 (2018);
5. “Corporate Social Responsibility and International Investment Law: Tension and Reconciliation,” in Vol. 2017/1 Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 90-119 (2017).
Teaching
LLAW3153 China Investment Law
LLAW6186 China Trade Law
HKU Law Welcomes Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Shenghua Lu
HKU Law Welcomes Professor Sida Liu, Professor of Sociology of Law
Welcome to Professor Sida Liu who joined the Faculty of Law as a Professor of Law! Professor Sida Liu 劉思達, LLB, Peking University Law School, 2002, PhD, The University of Chicago, 2009, also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. Professor Liu’s research interests include sociology of law, Chinese law and society, criminal justice and human rights, law and globalization, and sociolegal theory. He has conducted extensive empirical research on various aspects of China’s legal reform and legal professions. In addition to his empirical work, Professor Liu also writes on theories of law, professions, and social spaces.
Professor Liu holds external courtesy appointments as Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Affiliated Scholar of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at New York University School of Law, Faculty Affiliate of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, and Vice President of the China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has served as Chair of the Section on Sociology of Law at the American Sociological Association and Board Member of the Law & Society Association, the Asian Law & Society Association, the Canadian Law & Society Association, and the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs. Before joining the HKU faculty, Professor Liu taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his LLB from Peking University Law School and his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. In 2016-2017, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research areas include:
- Sociology of Law
- Chinese Law and Society
- Human Rights
- Law and Globalization
Welcome to Dr Menglu Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Commercial Corporate and Financial Law
- Comparative Chinese Law
- Information Technology
Shahla Ali et al on Introduction: Reaching Sustainable Diversity in International Arbitration (new book chapter)
Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, and Joshua Karton
ed. by Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Giorgio Fabio Colombo and Joshua Karton (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), Chapter 1, pp.2-5
Monday, January 30, 2023
HKU Research Awards in the Law Faculty in 2021-2022
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Kung Hei Fat Choy 2023
Friday, January 20, 2023
CCPL Newsletter (January 2023)
Richard Cullen on The Remarkable Little Red Envelope (China Daily)
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
Law Tech Talk: Data Protection and (In)accuracy Emotional AI as a Case Study by Dr Damian Clifford (ANU College of Law), Feb 9 (Thurs), 2023, HKT 1-2pm
All are welcome!
Please register as soon as possible at
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=86059
To learn more about the HKU Law and Technology Centre, visit https://www.lawtech.hk.
For enquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 3917 4727.
Richard Cullen on Why Japan is Not an Acceptable Military Ally (Pearls and Irritations: John Menadue's Public Policy Journal)
Richard Cullen
Published in January 2023
Richard Cullen on Public Transport System is One of Hong Kong's Wonders (China Daily HK Edition)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Shiling Xiao (RPg) & Yang Lin (RPg) on Judicial Review of Administrative Rules in China: Incremental Expansion of Judicial Power (The Journal of Comparative Law)
Shiling Xiao (RPg: currently postdoc) & Yang Lin (RPg: currently ARO)
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Alec Stone Sweet et al on Reversing Delegation? Politicization, De-delegation, and Non-majoritarian Institutions (Governance)
"Reversing delegation? Politicization, de-delegation, and non-majoritarian institutions"
Mark Thatcher, Alec Stone Sweet, and Bernardo Rangoni
Governance
p. 5-22
https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12709
Monday, January 16, 2023
The Law and Technology Centre: the symposium “Regulating Social Media Algorithms,” Jan 17, 2023 (Tue), HKT 9am-12:40pm
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Julien Chaisse & Jamieson Kirkwood on Tokenised Funding and Initial Litigation Offerings: the New Kids Putting Third-party Funding on the Block (Law and Financial Markets Review)
Published in December 2022 online
https://doi.org/10.1080/17521440.2022.2153609
Julien Chaisse & Jamieson Kirkwood on Taxing the Future: Digital Stateless Income, Business Organisation, and the Search for a New Regulatory Paradigm (Singapore Journal of Legal Studies)
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Darcy Lynn Davison-Roberts on RTHK Agender Café (a Media KE event) to discuss the Report by TALK on child sex abuse in Hong Kong (KE)
Understanding the Magnitude and Impact of the Problem
To view the report, click here.