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
"Proportionality and Invariable Baseline Intensity of Review" (2013) 33(1) Legal Studies 1 (winner of 2012 Society of Legal Scholars Best Paper Prize)
“Deference, Expertise and Information-Gathering Powers” Legal Studies (first published online: 25 October 2012; DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-121X.2012.00259.x)
“State Immunity: Reassessing the Boundaries of Judicial Autonomy in Hong Kong” [2012] Public Law 601
"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
“Proportionality and Invariable Baseline Intensity of Review”, Society of Legal Scholars 103rd Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 2012 (awarded the Best Paper Prize)
“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
