Herbert Aclan LOJA
Mr. Herbert Aclan Loja currently reads the Doctor of Philosophy (Public International Law) under the supervision of Professor Simon N.M. Young at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) – Faculty of Law. He earned his Master of Laws in Human Rights with Distinction degree at HKU in 2013 on a Söhmen Human Rights Scholarships for 2012/13 and received the Anna Wu Prize in Human Rights for most outstanding academic performance and the Winston Chu & Company Prize in Law for best dissertation. He was a graduate research trainee under the supervision of Professor Brian F. Havel at the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University – Faculty of Law. His published articles appear in the Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies, Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies, and Ateneo Law Journal and his first blog at the HKU Legal Scholarship Blog.
Publications:
“Legal Status of the Airspace over an Indeterminate Territory: The Case of the Spratly Islands,” (2017) 4(2) Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies 7 – 31
“A Targeted Killing in the Philippines,” (2014) 15(1&2) Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 175 – 202
“Hard Cases: A Little Justice, A Little Peace, and Some Dose of Impunity,” (2014) 8 Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies 1 – 19
“From Pronouncement to Enforcement: Bridging the Gap in Law to Promote and Protect the Right to a Decent Environment,” (2013) 58 Ateneo Law Journal 740 – 756
“Canada’s Air Defence Identification Zone and the Battle for the Arctic,” HKU Legal Scholarship Blog, 20 April 2018 <http://researchblog.law.hku.hk/2018/04/canadas-air-defence-identification-zone.html>
“Northeast Asian and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones: Siblings rather than Distant Cousins,” 2018 Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) Regional Conference, Beijing, 13 – 14 October 2018
“The Spratly Islands as a Single Unit in the 12 July 2016 Award of the Arbitral Tribunal in the Philippines/China South China Sea Arbitration in relation to the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty”, academic paper accepted for presentation at the Junior Scholars’ Workshop of the AsianSIL – Korea Chapter, 6th Biennial Conference of the AsianSIL, Seoul, 24 August 2017; paper previously presented at the 2017 Hong Kong Law Research Symposium, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, Hong Kong SAR, 22 April 2017
“Legal Status of the Airspace over an Indeterminate Territory: The Case of the Spratly Islands”, 2016 Regional Conference of the AsianSIL, Hanoi, 14 – 15 June 2016; paper also delivered at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law Young Scholars Lunchtime Talk Series, HKU, Faculty of Law, Hong Kong SAR, 28 October 2016
Awards:
HKU University Research Committee (URC) Conference Support for the 2018 AsianSIL Regional Conference in Beijing
HKU-Graduate School Pilot Scheme on International Experience for Full-time MPhil and PhD students for the research traineeship at the Institute of Air & Space Law, McGill University, Faculty of Law, 9 April – 9 May 2018
AsianSIL – Korea Chapter Funding Support for 2017 AsianSIL Biennial Conference in Seoul
HKU URC Conference Support for 2016 AsianSIL Regional Conference in Hanoi
Postgraduate Scholarship, HKU, 2014
Academic Distinction, Master of Laws in Human Rights, HKU, 2013
Anna Wu Prize in Human Rights, HKU, 2012/13
Winston Chu & Company Prize in Law, HKU, 2012/13
Söhmen Human Rights Scholarships, HKU, 2012/13