Academic Staff
Kelley Loper
Assistant Professor
BA (Yale)
LLM (HKU)
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Kelley Loper joined the Faculty of Law in September 2006. She serves as Director of the LLM in Human Rights Programme, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL), on the Editorial Committee of Hong Kong Law Journal, and Co-convener of the Emerging Strategic Research Theme on Diversity at the University of Hong Kong. She also serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre, a non-governmental organization which provides legal representation and assistance to asylum seekers.
Teaching
Equality and Non-discrimination, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
Hong Kong Legal System, 2008, 2009, 2010
International Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons, 2010, 2011
National Protection of Human Rights, 2010
Human Rights Research, Sources and Methodology, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007
Funded Research Projects
The protection of the right to equality based on sexual orientation and gender identity: a review of Hong Kong legislation and administrative policy (HKU Small Project Grant)
Legal Assistance for Asylum Seekers and Torture Claimants in Hong Kong (Research Grants Council, Public Policy Research Grant)
The Rights of Refugees and Torture Claimants in Hong Kong (commissioned by
Amnesty International, Hong Kong)
The Concept of Substantive Equality and the Work of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination (HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research)
Equality Law and Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities (the Henry Chan
Inclusive Education Fund)
Ethnic Minorities in the Hong Kong Education System (CCPL)
Specialized Areas: International human rights law, equality and non-discrimination,
international refugee law, minority rights
