Research Profile
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
Publications: Books
(Editor) The Legal Case: Cross Currents between Law and the Humanities (Routledge; forthcoming 2012)
Publications: Journal Articles
Screening the Law in China: Law, Visuality and Evidence in Three Documentaries on HIV/AIDS by Ai Xiaoming, Law and Humanities (forthcoming 2012)
A Matter of Style: On Reading the Oscar Wilde Trials as Literature, 31 (4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 709-726 (2011)
Constructing the Meaning of ‘Obscenity': an Empirical Investigation and an Experimentalist Account (co-authored with Janny Leung), International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (forthcoming; advance access Digital Object Identifier:10.1007/s11196-011-9251-8)
Doing Things with the Past: A Critique of the Use of History by Hong Kong's Court of First Instance in W v Registrar of Marriages, 41 Hong Kong Law Journal 125-138 (2011) (Guest Editor of Focus Section on the transsexual marriage case of W v Registrar of Marriages)
Law and Humour in Johnnie To's Justice, My Foot!, 31 Cardozo Law Review 1313-1329 (2010) (Winner of the HKU Faculty Research Output Prize 2010)
The Unwritten Law of Files, 22 Law & Literature 199-212 (2010)
Fetishistic Reading, Intertextual Reading: Law, Literature, and Androgyny in the Madame Bovary Trial, 2 Law & Humanities 233-254 (2008) (nominated for the Socio-Legal Article Prize of the Socio-Legal Studies Association; winner of the HKU Faculty Research Output Prize)
From the Rack to the Press: Representation of the Oscar Wilde Trials in the French Newspaper Le Temps, 18 Law & Literature 47-69 (2006)
Publications: Book Chapters
Literal Interpretation and English Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer, in Current Legal Issues: Law and Language, Michael Freeman and Fiona M. Smith (eds) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012)
'Stare Decisis, Binding Precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds', in The Legal Case: Cross Currents between Law and the Humanities (Routledge, forthcoming 2011)
'A Tale of Many Newspapers: Perversion, Criminality, and Scopophilia in Hong Kong's Reportage on the Edison Chen Scandal' (primary author; co-authored with Dr Janny Leung), in Law, Culture and Visual Studies (Springer; forthcoming 2011)
Conference Papers and Invited Presentations
Legal Hermeneutics and the Construction of Lesbian Identity in the Well of Loneliness Trials, Representing Justice, Texas Wesleyan School of Law (2012)
Law, Literature and Repetition in the Vizetelly Trials, Law Faculty Seminar, University of Warwick (2012)
English Precedent and Hong Kong Law in W v Registrar of Marriages, Ceremonies of Law, University of Wollongong (2011)
Literal Interpretation and Legal Precedent in Joe Ma's Lawyer, Lawyer, Law and Language, University College London (2011)
Stare Decisis, Binding Precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter (2011)
Historicising the Legal Construction of Lesbianism, Uses of the History of Sexuality, University of Cambridge (2010)
Stare Decisis, Binding Precedent, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Legal Case, University of Hong Kong (2010)
Sex and Power in the Edison Chen Scandal, International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, City University of Hong Kong (2009)
Law and Humour in Johnnie To's Justice, My Foot!, In flagrante depicto: a Conference on Film in/on Trial, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (2009; by invitation)
Sultry Pleasures: Orientalist Fantasy, Psychoanalysis, and the Genesis of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Conference, University of Bristol (2009)
Law, Literature and Obscenity in the Well of Loneliness Trials, International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France (2008)
Trauma and the Possibility of Legal History, Legal History Colloquium, University of Cambridge (2008)
Participant in a roundtable discussion on literary censorship organized by the British Academy, University of London in Paris (2008; by invitation)
Outcasts: Homophobia and Repetition in the Well of Loneliness Trial, presentation at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong (2007)
Confessional practices in George Eliot's Adam Bede, Legal History Colloquium, University of Cambridge (2006)
The Oscar Wilde Trials and the Question of Irish Identity, 'Postcolonial Victorians' Conference, University of Oxford (2006)
Elisions in Law and Literature, Conference on 'Interdisciplinary,' University of Cambridge (2005)
Taking Ian Watt to Court, Or How Do Lawyers Read Stories?, Symposium on 'The Power of Stories: Intersections of Law, Literature, and Culture,' University of Gloucester, (2005)
Editorships and External Positions
International Advisor, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
Articles Editor, Hong Kong Law Journal
Long-List Selection Committee Member, Man Asian Literary Prize
