Academic Staff

Dr Marco Wan 温文灝

Assistant Professor of Law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English
PhD., University of Cambridge
MA/BA Law (Hons)., University of Cambridge
BA., Yale University

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Dr Marco Wan is Assistant Professor of law and Honorary Assistant Professor of English. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literary trials in England and France, and on the representations of law in Hong Kong cinema. His areas of interest include law and literature; law and film; and legal/critical theory.

Marco received his PhD and his law degree from the University of Cambridge, where he was an Evan-Lewis Thomas Law Scholar and a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellow. He received his BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where he was awarded the Fox International Fellowship.

He has been a Visiting Scholar at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, and is currently an Academic Visitor at the Law Faculty at the University of Oxford.

Marco is the recipient of a three-year grant from the General Research Fund (GRF) of the Research Grants Council in Hong Kong; he is conducting a project entitled 'Fiction on Trial, 1857-1933' which considers a number of modern literary trials in England, France and America as encounters between literature and the law.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and the Hong Kong Law Journal, and is on the long-list selection committee of the Man Asian Literary Prize.

Courses Taught:
Law and Literature; Law and Film; Law, Meaning and Interpretation; Contract Law.