How can a faculty of law fulfil its vocation today? And how might traditions in the humanities offer university legal educators ways of understanding the challenges of our times, as well as ways to respond pedagogically, institutionally, and jurisdictionally?
The discussants on this Roundtable will address these questions as professors who have made significant contributions to the scholarship, teaching and institutional life of law. Speaking from positions in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, and the UK, and drawing on interpretative resources from the humanities and beyond, they will cross and join themes that include: legal education in plural jurisdictions; gender and other forms of marginalisation; the intensifying pressures from marketisation, global politics, and artificial intelligence; and the work of institutionalising solidarity as teachers of law.
Date: March 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 5pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Room 901, 9/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Discussants:
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Shulamit Almog (Professor and Co-Founding Director of the Forum of Law, Gender, and Policy, University of Haifa Faculty of Law)
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Shaun McVeigh (Professor, University of Melbourne Law School; Teaching Exchange Fellow, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law)
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Puja Kapai Paryani(Associate Professor and Convenor of the Women’s Studies Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law)
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Illan rua Wall(Lecturer, University of Galway School of Law; Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Warwick)
Chair: Marco Wan, Professor & Director (Law) for BA & LLB Programme, The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law
Registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=105543.
This event is supported by the HKU Teaching Exchange Fellowship Scheme, HKU Research Integrity Funding Scheme, and the HKU Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Law (BA&LLB) Programme.
For inquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at / 3917 4727.