Prof. Po Jen Yap
Professor
LLB (NUS), LLM (Harvard), LLM(London), PhD (Cantab)
Biography
Po Jen Yap is a Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Faculty of Law, where he specializes in Constitutional and Administrative law. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB degree and he obtained LLM qualifications from both Harvard Law School and University College London. He also has a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge. He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Attorney at Law in the State of New York (USA). He is the author and editor of over 50 books, book chapters, journal articles, and/ or case commentaries. His first sole-authored monograph “Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia” was published by Oxford University Press in 2015 and was awarded HKU’s University Research Output Prize in 2016. He is also the recipient of HKU’s 2016 Outstanding Young Researcher Prize. His second sole-authored monograph “Courts and Democracies in Asia” was published by Cambridge University Press in October 2017. His third monograph “Constitutional Convergence in East Asia” – co-authored with Chien-Chih Lin – was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He is the Principal Investigator of two General Research Fund (GRF) competitive external research grants, which were awarded in 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Books
Journal Articles
1.Constitutional Convergence in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (monograph co-authored with Chien-Chih Lin)
2. Proportionality in Asia (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Sep 2020) (sole editor)
3. Constitutional Remedies in Asia (Routledge, 2019) (181 pages) (sole editor)
4. Courts and Democracies in Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (232 pages) (sole author)
5. Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia (Oxford University Press, 2015) (244 pages) (sole author)
1.“Judicial Self-Dealing and Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in South Asia”, (2021) International Journal of Constitutional Law 127 – 148 (with Rehan Abeyratne)
2.”Remedial Discretion and Dilemmas in Asia” (2020) 69 University of Toronto Law Journal 84 – 104
3.“Statutory Rights and Defacto Constitutional Supremacy in Hong Kong?” (2019) International Journal of Constitutional Law 836 – 859 (with Francis Chung)
4.“New Democracies and Novel Remedies” (2017) Public Law 30 – 45
5.“The Conundrum of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments” (2015) Global Constitutionalism 114 – 136
6.“Dialogue and Subconstitutional Doctrines in Common Law Asia” (2013) Public Law 779 – 799
7.“Defending Dialogue” (2012) Public Law 527 – 546