Award Notifications Issued for Gilman Program October 2024 Deadline

December 9, 2024 — The U.S. Department of State announced today that it has awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to approximately 1,600 American undergraduate students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, in the fall 2024 cycle.  A second application cycle will be launched in mid January 2025.  All … Read more

Richard Cullen on Dicey in Hong Kong (new book chapter)

“Dicey in Hong Kong“Richard Cullenin Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey, edited by Catherine Marshall and Céline Roynier (Bloomsbury Publishing, December 2024), Chapter 13 Published online: December 2024 Abstract: When one reviews authoritarian jurisdictions with a positive history of adhering to Rule of Law shaped governance systems, Hong Kong is rightly regarded as … Read more

Stephanie Biedermann awarded Early Career Teaching Award 2024

Stephanie is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, the Programme Director of the Master of Laws in Human Rights, and is a US-licensed lawyer. She specializes in international law, immigration, forced migration, and discrimination issues, particularly for refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrant workers. Her legal experience includes work in the US, the Middle East, and Hong … Read more

Congratulation to Former AIIFL Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kuzi Charamba

Congratulations to Former AIIFL Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kuzi Charamba, whose sustainable finance startup “Tese”, was one of the three winning teams in the “G20 TechSprint 2024 – Technology for the Planet challenge”, a joint initiative between the G20 Presidency and the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) Innovation Hub to seek out best-in-class technological innovations aimed … Read more

Bifan Zhao won the First Prize for excellent papers in the seminar “The Integration of Socialist Core Values into the Rule of Law”

Congratulations to Mr. Bifan Zhao, our Ph.D. student, on receiving the First Prize for excellent papers in the seminar “The Integration of Socialist Core Values into the Rule of Law.” On behalf of all prize winners, he presented his paper, “The Meanings and Functions of Socialist Core Values in Legal Interpretation and Reasoning: Analysis Based … Read more

Xin He on The Judicial System of China (Oxford University Press)

The Judicial System of ChinaXin HeOxford University PressPublished in November 2024 Abstract: Grounded in both English- and Chinese-language sources, The Judicial System of China is a systematic study of Chinese courts after Xi Jinping took power and thoroughly reformed China’s judiciary. How have Chinese courts come to the shape they are in today? How are … Read more

The History and the Law (Art Antiquity and Law)

“Auction Houses in Britain and China: The History and the Law“David KwokArt Antiquity and Law (2024, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp.238)Published online: October 2024 Abstract: The article “AUCTION HOUSES IN BRITAIN AND CHINA: THE HISTORY AND THE LAW” discusses the historical development of art auctions in Britain and China. In Britain, art auctions have a long … Read more

Ryan Whalen et al on Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets (NEJM)

“Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets“Bernard Chao, Ryan Whalen, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and S. Sean TuThe New England Journal of MedicinePublished online: November 2024 Brand-name drug manufacturers in the United States charge high prices during market-exclusivity periods, enabled by patents that block direct competition from generics and biosimilars. When bringing a generic or biosimilar drug to the … Read more

New Issue of Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (Volume 25, Issue 3, Dec 2024)

ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAWEditor-in-Chief: Simon NM YoungPublisher: Brill, Leiden2024, Volume 25, Issue 3Table of ContentsArticles:Male Rape Victims and the Case for a Gender-Neutral Definition of Rape in BangladeshA Gender and Human Rights PerspectiveAuthor:  Arifur RahmanPages: 215–245Online Publication Date: 29 Nov 2024From Semi-democracy to AutocracyThe Reform

Archbold Hong Kong 2025 (Sweet & Maxwell)

ARCHBOLD HONG KONG 2025Editor-in-Chief: The Hon Mr Justice BokharyGeneral Editor: Professor Simon YoungSweet & MaxwellOctober 2024 Preface by the General Editor The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (Ord. No. 6 of 2024) (“SNSO”) entered into force on 23 March 2024, only 15 days after the bill was read the first time in the Legislative Council. The … Read more