Research Profile

Oliver Jones

Current research interests

Statutory Interpretation, Relationship between Public International and Domestic Law, Imperial and colonial law (including Privy Council and Crown Liability) and Federal Jurisdiction in Australia

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Books

Oliver Jones and Michael Ramsden, Hong Kong Basic Law: Annotations and Commentary (Hong Kong, Sweet and Maxwell, 2010), 417 pp

Oliver Jones, Bennion on Statutory Interpretation, Fifth Edition, Supplement, Lexisnexis, London, 2010, 144 pp

Journal articles

Tony Carty and Oliver Jones, “The Congo Case”, Hong Kong Lawyer, March 2011, pp 43-50

Oliver Jones, “In Defence of Crown Liability”, Hong Kong Lawyer, January 2011, pp 41-47

Oliver Jones, "After the Decennial: The New Doctrine of Precedent in the Hong Kong Court of Appeal" [2009] Law Lectures for Practitioners 107-162

Oliver Jones, “Noxious Antiquity?  Life in Hong Kong Without the Application of English Law Ordinance” (2009) 39 Hong Kong Law Journal 793-834

Oliver Jones, “Customary Non-Refoulement of Refugees and Automatic Incorporation into the Common Law: a Hong Kong Perspective” (2009) 58 International and Comparative Law Quartely 443-468

  • Awards: HKU Research Output Prize 2010
  • SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1688157
  • Citations:
    1. James Hathaway, “Leveraging Asylum” [2009] University of Melbourne Law School Research Series 6; (2010) 45 University of Texas International Law Journal 503
    2. Albert Chen, “International Human Rights Law and Domestic Constitutional Law: Internationalisation of Constitutional Law in Hong Kong” (2009) 4 National Taiwan University Law Review 237
    3. Kelley Loper, “Human Rights, Non-refoulement and the Protection of Refugees in Hong Kong” (2010) 22 International Journal of Refugee Law 404

Oliver Jones and Chantal Ononaiwu, “Smoothing the Way: the Privy Council and Jamaica’s Accession to the Caribbean Court of Justice” (2008) 16 Caribbean Law Review 183-197

Oliver Jones, “Statutory Interpretation: the Case for a Core Subject” (2007) 5 Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education 85-96

Oliver Jones, “Out with the owners: the Eurasian sequels to J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v United Kingdom”, (2007) 27 Civil Justice Quarterly 260-276

Oliver Jones, “Jones v Ministry of Interior of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: an Exercise in Interpretation”, (2007) 11 Singapore Yearbook of International Law 163-175:

J D'Agostino and O Jones, "The Energy Charter Treaty: a Step Towards Consistency in International Investment Arbitration" (2007) 25(3) Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law [UK] 27-45

Oliver Jones, "Federal Treaty Jurisdiction: a Belated Reply to Mark Leeming SC", (2007) 18(2) Public Law Review [Aus] 94-118