Academic Staff

Cora Chan 陳秀慧

Assistant Professor
BSocSc (Government and Laws) (HKU), LLB (HKU), PCLL (HKU),
BCL (Oxon), Solicitor (HK)

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Cora Chan, Assistant Professor, joined the Faculty in December 2009. Having graduated from the University of Hong Kong, she attended Brasenose College at Oxford, where she obtained the BCL degree and was awarded the Ralph Chiles CBE Award in Human Rights. She was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2009.

Select publications

"State Immunity: Reassessing the Boundaries of Judicial Autonomy in Hong Kong" Public Law (forthcoming)

"Deference and the Separation of Powers: An Assessment of the Court's Constitutional
and Institutional Competences" (2011) 41 Hong Kong Law Journal 7

"Reconceptualising the Relationship between the Mainland Chinese Legal System and
the Hong Kong Legal System" (2011) 6(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Article 1

"Judicial Deference at Work: Some Reflections on Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming"
(2010) 40 Hong Kong Law Journal 1

Conference papers

"Deference, Expertise and Intelligence-gathering Powers", Society of Legal Scholars
102nd Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 2011 (short-listed for the Best
Paper Prize)

"Implications of FG Hemisphere v Congo on Judicial Autonomy in Hong Kong",
4th Asian Constitutional Law Forum, 2011

"Deference on the Ground of Democratic Legitimacy", 3rd Biennial HKU-NUS-SMU
Symposium, 2010

"Legal Pluralism and China's 'One Country, Two Systems' Model", 7th Asian Law
Institute Conference, 2010

Editorships
Articles Editor, Hong Kong Law Journal

Specialised areas: Constitutional Theory, Human Rights Law, Public Law

Courses taught: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal Theory