Prof. Felix Chan
Associate Professor
LLB, PCLL (HKU), LLM (Cantab.), DBA (Adelaide)
Biography
Professor Chan is the Director of LLM (Spec. Maritime Law) programme. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean of the Law Faculty, overseeing knowledge exchange and research postgraduate programmes. He also served as the Acting Dean for various periods. He was the co-director of the Law and Technology Centre of University of Hong Kong during 2022-24.
Professor Chan is qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong and England & Wales. He practised in Johnson Stokes and Master and Norton Rose (now Norton Rose Fullbright) before joining academia. His practice areas cover shipping, aviation, bank financing and international arbitration. He is currently a consultant in a local law firm.
He has published in Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and International Journal of Maritime Law. He is a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong: Maritime Law (LexisNexis) and Shipping and Logistics Law: Principles and Practice in Hong Kong (HKU Press).
Professor Chan’s co-authored outputs related to personal injury compensation have been cited in Hong Kong and Singapore courts. His outputs on shipping law and conflicts of law have been cited in leading practitioners’ texts, notably Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading and Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws.
Course
Research Profile
Professional Memberships
Carriage of Goods by Sea (LLM – Maritime Law)
Shipping Finance Law (LLM – Maritime Law)
Corporate and Commercial Transactions (PCLL)
Professional Practice (PCLL)
Transport Law and Management (MA) (Department of Geography, MA in Transport Policy and Planning)
Research Intrests
Shipping law
Private international law
Actuarial evidence
General Research Fund (GRF) Projects as Principal Investigator:
| 2016 | Further Reforms in Hong Kong’s Personal Injury Compensation | HK$590,500 |
| 2012 | One Country, Two Systems and Three Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Research of Law, Economics and Actuarial Mathematics in Assessment of Personal Injury Damages in the PRC | HK$440,550 |
| 2008 | Actuarial Assessment of Damages in Personal Injury Litigations: How Precise Are We? | HK$219,000 |
| 2001 | Multipliers for Personal Injury Litigation in Hong Kong | HK$396,000 |
Solicitor (Hong Kong)
CMILT (Chartered Member, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport)
HKMLA (Member, The Hong Kong Maritime Law Association)
HKSTS (Honourary Legal Advisor, The Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies)
ASHK (Honourary Legal Advisor, The Actuarial Society of Hong Kong)