Academic Staff
Dr Richard Wu 胡惠生
Associate Professor
LLB (HKU) PCLL (HKU), BSc (Economics), LLM (London), MBA (Warwick),
LLB, LLM (Peking), LLM (IT and Telecommunications Law) (Stratclyde) and
PhD (London)
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Dr Richard Wai-sang Wu, Associate Professor, LLB (HKU) PCLL (HKU), BSc (Economics), LLM (London), MBA (Warwick), LLB, LLM (Peking), LLM (IT and Telecommunications Law) (Strathclyde) and PhD (London). Dr Wu has undertaken studies in both common law and PRC law. Apart from law, he also received academic training in other disciplines like economics, business administration, sociology and social policy. In 2006, he completed his doctoral dissertation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with the title of ‘Commercializing Chinese State Owned Banks: Legal Dimensions of Banking Reform in the People’s Republic of China: with particular reference to the period 1990-2001’. He is a Visiting Scholar of Peking University Law School and Editorial Advisory Board member of the international journal of Legal Ethics.
Dr Wu teaches Property Transactions and Professional Practice in PCLL and Telecommunications Law in LLM. He is active in interdisciplinary legal research, and his current research focuses on four major areas: Telecommunications Law and Policy, Chinese Banking Laws, Legal Education and Ethics, and Conveyancing (focussing on Title Registration). He is qualified and prepared to supervise suitable doctoral work, and is particularly well equipped to supervise doctoral research in the above four areas.
Over the years, Dr Wu has published refereed articles in international journals and contributed chapters to academic books published in China and overseas. He has also presented papers at international conferences held in Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Jakarta, Singapore, London, San Francisco, Perth, Canberra, Berlin, Taipei, Istanbul, Montreal, Gold Coast, Stockholm, Rome, Fukuoka, Hsinchu and Chicago respectively. (Publications)
In terms of research grants, Dr Wu was awarded a Public Policy Research Grant (PPRG) in January 2008 for a sum of HK$380,000 by the Research Grants Council (RGC) to study the legal and policy implications of establishing the Communications Authority in Hong Kong. In the same year, he was awarded a Teaching Development Grant for a sum of HK$269,488 to study the improvement of assessment practices in legal education. In 2009, he was awarded a sum of HK$311,360 by the Government Research Fund (GRF) to study the legal and policy implications of implementing a land title registration system in England and their lessons for Hong Kong and China. In addition, he has secured three research grants to study the implementation of the title registration system in Hong Kong, promotion of teaching professional ethics in the PCLL curriculum and implementation of Chinese banking law after WTO accession respectively. (Grant Record).
Before joining the academia, Dr Wu was a partner of the largest and oldest law firm in Hong Kong. He was qualified in four common law jurisdictions, and is eligible to practise as Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong; Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales; Barrister and Solicitor of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Barrister of High Court of Australia; Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Republic of Singapore; and Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia.
Specialized Areas: Telecommunications Law and Policy, Chinese Banking Laws, Legal Education and Ethics, and Conveyancing (focusing on Title Registration)
