Academic Staff
Dr Athena Liu 廖雅慈
Papers & Conferences
Athena has presented papers in various forum, a selection of some recent papers are:
`Legal Aspects of the Care of the Terminally-ill', Guest Speaker, Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, 30 April 1992.
`Abortion and the Right to Life?', Guest Speaker and Panel Discussion, Contemporary Issues in Medical Ethics Series, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, April 1992.
`The Parent and Child Ordinance and Artificial Reproduction', Medico-Legal Society, December 1994.
`Divorce, and the Pitfalls in Clean Break', Hong Kong Law Lecture for Practitioners, March 1995.
`Meditation: How Does it Fit into Hong Kong', Joint Meeting Between Hong Kong Family Law Association and the Mediation Group, April 1995.
`Euthanasia', Conference paper presented to the East Asian Conference on Bioethics, Beijing, November 1995.
`Children in care proceedings and Children in Court', paper delivered to the Conference on Children Protection: The Relevance of Children's Rights in Hong Kong', Against Child Abuse & Hong Kong Committee on Children's Rights, October 1995.
`Matrimonial Property Law in Hong Kong: Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Seminar, 7 March 1996.
`Medical Ethics and Legal Issues: the Reproductive Technology Bill and Sex Selection, Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Staff Seminar, May 1996.
`Child Abuse and Child Protection: Legal Aspects’ Speciality Group of Clinical Psychologists on Child and Adolescent, Guest Speaker, 8 December 1996.
`Human Reproductive Technology Bill: Best Interests of the Child v. Procreative Autonomy in the Case of Posthumous Birth’, Symposium on Reproductive Technology and Ethics, Centre for Applied Ethics, Guest Speaker, 19 March 1997
`Adverse Medical Incidents: A matter of Competence or Ethics?’, Hong Kong Bioethics Association, Guest speaker, 9 October 1997.
`Legal and Ethical Issues in assisted human reproduction’, Workshop on Assisted Reproduction Technology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, HKU, 27 October -1 November 1997.
`The Artificially Created Persons’, Symposium on Law and Medicine: Tomorrow’s Practice, British Council, 8-9 November 1997.
`Marriage as a Partnership of Equals’ staff seminar, Law Department, 18 March 1998.
`Update on Consent to Medical Treatment and Failed Sterilisation’, Law Society Continuing Legal Education, Guest Speaker, 17 April 1998.
`Guardianship of Minors – a Response to the Law reform Commission Paper, staff seminar, Law Department, April 1999.
‘Human Organ Transplant: Legal and Ethical Issues, Conference on Bioethics, City University of HK, 27 May 1999.
‘Chinese Medicine Bill’ Hong Kong New-Medico-legal Society, June, 1999
‘Human Organ Transplant Ordinance: Facilitating Live Donor Transplant’ Law and Medicine Colloquium, London, University College London, 6 July 1999.
‘Consent to Medical Treatment: update’ Law Society Continuing Legal Education, Guest Speaker, 29 July 1999.
‘Human Organ Transplant Ordinance’ Staff Seminar, Anaesthetic Department, Prince of Wales Hospital, 31 July 1999.
‘Reproductive Technology Bill’, Conference on Medical Genetics, Hong Kong Society on Medical Genetics, October 1999.
‘Adoption’, Commentator, the Legal Education Trust fund, 20 November 1999, Furama Hotel, Hong Kong.
Public Forum ‘Legal Aspects on Withholding life sustaining treatment’, Department of Law and Society of Critical Care Medicine, 14 April 2000
Conference paper, ‘Withholding life sustaining treatment’, Taiwan Central University, June 2000
