Marco Wan is Professor of Law and Director of the Programme in Law and Literary Studies at the University of Hong Kong. He writes and teaches in law and humanities; constitutional law; law, gender, and sexuality; and legal theory. His research has been awarded the biennial Penny Pether Prize from the Association of Law, Literature and Humanities of Australasia, as well as the HKU Research Output Prize. He has also been a recipient of the HKU Outstanding Teaching Award.

His work focuses on the complex intersections between law and other areas of the humanities, and he is currently writing a monograph that explores how literary and cultural theory might shed light on the legal regulation of sexuality. His latest book, Film and Constitutional Controversy (Cambridge University Press, 2021) examines how constitutional debates are refracted in Hong Kong cinema. His first book, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2017), investigates how fiction interrogated legal and political constructions of gender in nineteenth-century England and France. All three projects are supported by three-year grants from the General Research Fund (GRF) of the University Grants Committee.

He is Managing Editor of Law & Literature, which was founded as the journal of the Law and Literature movement. He serves on the editorial boards of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities and the Edinburgh Studies in Law, Justice and the Visual (both from Edinburgh University Press); Hong Kong University Press; Law and Visual Jurisprudence (Springer); and the International Studies in Law and Literature (Brill).

He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the Käte Hamburger ‘Law as Culture’ Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Germany, the National University of Singapore, and Yale Law School.

He is a frequent commentator on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusivity. He has also served as a curator for the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

He received his PhD and his first law degree from the University of Cambridge, where he was an Evan-Lewis Thomas Law Scholar and a Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellow. He also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. He received his BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where he was awarded the Fox International Fellowship.