Academic Staff

Dr Marco Wan 温文灝

Assistant Professor of Law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English
PhD., University of Cambridge
MA/BA Law (Hons)., University of Cambridge
BA., Yale University

Email | Research Profile | HKU ResearcherPage | SSRN |

Dr Marco Wan is Assistant Professor of law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literary trials in England and France, and on the representations of law in Hong Kong cinema. His areas of interest include law and literature; law and film; and legal/critical theory. He received his PhD and his law degree from the University of Cambridge, and his BA from Yale University.

In 2010 Dr Wan was awarded a three-year grant from the General Research Fund (GRF) of the Research Grants Council in Hong Kong for his study entitled 'Fiction on Trial, 1857-1933' which considers a number of modern literary trials in England, France and America as encounters between literature and the law. He has also been the recipient of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship; the Fox International Fellowship; and the Evan-Lewis Thomas Law Studentship.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and the Hong Kong Law Journal, and is on the long-list selection committee of the Man Asian Literary Prize.

Dr Wan will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from January to July 2011.

Courses Taught:
Law and Literature; Law and Film; Law, Meaning and Interpretation; Contract Law.