Keynote Speakers
Professor Albert Chen
Albert H Y Chen is the Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor and Chair of Constitutional Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He graduated from HKU, earned an LLM at Harvard, and joined HKU’s law faculty in 1984. He served as Head of the Department of Law in 1993-96, and Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1996-2002. He is the author of An Introduction to the Chinese Legal System, and The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and co-author of The Constitutional System of the Hong Kong SAR. He is also editor and co-editor of Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century, and Constitutional Courts in Asia respectively.
Professor Cora Chan
Cora Chan is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. She specialises in public law and has written on proportionality, judicial deference, national security and human rights, and China-Hong Kong constitutional relations, amongst other topics. She is the author of Deference in Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2024). She was a member of the General Council of the International Society of Public Law and served on the law panel for the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise conducted by Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee.
Professor Stefano Osella
Stefano Osella is Assistant Professor at the HKU Faculty of Law. He is a comparative public lawyer with wide-ranging interests in socio-legal theory, law and anthropology, human (particularly socio-economic) rights, and gender and the law. His primary focus is on the ways gender identity and sexual orientation are embedded and presupposed in constitutional law. More recently, Stefano has started researching the concept of care within constitutional law. He has published extensively on these topics, and his articles have appeared in top-tier journals such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the German Law Journal, among others.
Speakers and Moderators
Professor Larry Backer
Professor Ngoc Son Bui
