Academic Staff
Angelina Luk 陸文慧
Adjunct Professor
Solicitor and Notary Public of Hong Kong
Angelina Luk is a solicitor in Hong Kong, and England and Wales. Before she read law at the University of Cambridge, she had worked as a professional translator for 10 years. In her first career, she had taught translation at the University of Hong Kong, headed the Chinese Department of an international translation company and prepared the English translation of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
As a solicitor and a notary public at a law firm, she is also the course co-ordinator of all subjects relating to the use of Chinese in law and legal practice at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. In addition, she teaches a course on writing judgments in Chinese for judges and judicial officers of the HKSAR Judiciary (法官及司法人員中文判決書寫作課程).
She has been a member of the Bilingualism Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong since 1997. Her major publications include: (1) 《法律翻譯：從實踐出發》[Legal Translation in Practice], Chung Hwa Book Company, 2002 and reprinted in 2003 with the mainland simplified-character version published by Law Press, China in 2004; (2) Bilingual Common Law: Extracts from Criminal Cases《雙語普通法：刑事案例摘錄》, Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2003; and (3) 《香港法概論（新版）》[An Introduction to Hong Kong Law (New Edition)], Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co. Ltd., 2009.
Specialized Areas: Bilingual Common Law and Legal Translation
