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Alice Lee 李雪菁

Associate Professor
LLB (HKU), BCL (Oxon), PCLL (HKU)

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Alice Lee, Associate Professor, specializes in property/land law and intellectual property law. Her academic interests also extend to legal bilingualism. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at HKU, students from Tsinghua University and Santa Clara University, as well as Hong Kong civil servants. In recognition of her excellence in teaching, she was awarded the title "University Teaching Fellow" in November 1999.

She is a co-Legal Lead of Creative Commons HK (http://hk.creativecommons.org), a member of the HKSAR Passports Appeal Board, the Municipal Services Appeal Board, the Town Planning Appeal Board and the Management Committee of the Consumer Legal Action Fund, and was an adjudicator of the Immigration Tribunal.  

She is a contributing author of the LexisNexis looseleaf publication Intellectual Property Rights: Hong Kong SAR and PRC (with Michael Pendleton and Jared Margolis). Her books, book chapters and other publications include:

Intellectual Property Law and Practice in Hong Kong (with Kenny Wong), Sweet & Maxwell, 2011 (first published in 2002)
Tort Law and Practice in Hong Kong, Chapters 16 to 18 (with Kenny Wong), Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd ed, 2011
Intellectual Property in Hong Kong (with Prof Michael Pendleton), LexisNexis, 2008 (first published in 2001)
Butterworths Hong Kong Copyright Handbook, 3rd ed, 2011
Butterworths Hong Kong Trade Marks Handbook, 2nd ed, 2011
Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong, Intellectual Property: Trademarks, Vol 15(3), LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010 Reissue
Land Law in Hong Kong (with Prof SH Goo), LexisNexis Butterworths, 3rd ed, 2010
Chapter 8 "Property Law" and Ch 12 "Intellectual Property Law" in General Principles of Hong Kong Law (in Chinese) (edited by Albert Chen, Johannes Chan, Alice Lee et al), Joint Publishing Ltd, 2009 (first published in 1999)
Chapter 12 "Rule Against Perpetuities" in SH Goo, Land Law in Hong Kong, Butterworths, 1997
"Adverse Possession and Proprietary Estoppel as Defences to Actions for Possession" (1999) HKLJ 3l-44
"Leases Beyond 2047?" in Law Lectures for Practitioners 1998 (edited by Alice Lee), Hong Kong Law Journal Ltd, 1998, 177-186
"Language and the Law in Hong Kong: From English to Chinese" in One Country, Two Systems, Three Languages: A Survey of Changing Language Use in Hong Kong (edited by Wright and Kelly-Holmes), Multilingual Matters, 1997, 50-56
"An Unsolved Problem For Adverse Possessors of New Territories Land", (1996) 26 HKLJ 7-20
"Protecting Trade Marks in Hong Kong: Re Omega", (1996) 26 HKLJ 180-193

Specialized Areas: Property Law, Intellectual Property Law