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Professor Chan, Cora Sau Wai 陳秀慧

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Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law of the Department of Law

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Professor Chan, Cora Sau Wai 陳秀慧

Title:
Professor
Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law of the Department of Law

Faculty:

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Chan, CSW
Chan, Cora Sau Wai
Chan, C

Biography

Cora Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law. Her research interests are in constitutional theory, human rights, and public law. Her works on judicial deference have been the subject of a number of awards, including the 2012 Society of Legal Scholars Best Paper Prize and the 2012-2013 University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize. In 2013, Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council awarded her the Early Career Award on top of a competitive grant in recognition of the excellent quality of her grant proposal. In 2017, she (with Fiona de Londras, Birmingham) were awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grants.

Cora is on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law, the advisory boards of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the Springer series in Contemporary Chinese Civil and Commercial Law, and the editorial boards of Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory Series, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Hong Kong Law Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law, and Revista de Investigações Constitucionais (Journal of Constitutional Research). She was appointed by Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee as a member of the Law Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020. She was awarded the inaugural Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar in 2021, the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2017-2018, and the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013-2014.

Cora is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong’s double degree programme in law and political science. Upon completion of the programme, she attended Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where she obtained the BCL degree and was awarded the Ralph Chiles CBE Prize in Human Rights.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2013-06-01In addition to obtaining the competitive Early Career Scheme grant of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council on judicial deference, my grant proposal was also awarded the 2013 Early Career Award by the same body in recognition of the excellent quality of the proposal. Only 5% of top junior scholars are shortlisted for this award, which consists of an honorary title and an additional amount of HK$100,000 for educational work. My application was ranked 5.0 (excellent).: Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2013-07-01Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship 2013-2014, covering accommodation and college fees during my stay in University of Cambridge as visiting scholar in 3-31 March 2014: The Doris Zimmern Charitable Foundation and the University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2012-10-01My paper “Proportionality and invariable baseline intensity of review” was awarded the 2012 Best Paper Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars from eligible entries amongst some 270 papers presented at the Society’s annual conference. The award consists of a monetary award of £250 and having the final version of the paper published with the A* journal, Legal Studies. The criteria for selection were "originality, contribution to scholarship, and clarity and style." The judges described the paper as having made “an original, well-argued and important contribution to scholarship” in the field.: Society of Legal Scholars, U.K.
Research Achievement
2013-12-01Article on “Deference, Expertise and Information-gathering Powers” awarded the University of Hong Kong’s 2012-2013 Research Output Prize.: University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2011-09-01Paper on “Deference, Expertise and Intelligence-Gathering Powers” - one of the four shortlisted for the 2011 Best Paper Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars from eligible entries amongst some 300 papers at the Society’s annual conference.: The Society of Legal Scholars, U.K.
Research Achievement
2021-10-01inaugural Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar: University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2015-01-01Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award: The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Accomplishment
2015-12-01My article, “Implementing China and Hong Kong’s Preliminary Reference System: Transposability of Article 267 TFEU Principles” was awarded the Faculty Research Output Prize: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2014-03-01My article, "Proportionality and Invariable Baseline Intensity of Review” (2013) 33(1) Legal Studies 1-21, was awarded the Faculty Research Output Prize: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2019-03-01Outstanding Young Researcher Award: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
Feb 2013 – 2014Hong Kong CorrespondentU.K. Constitutional Law Association
Jul 2014 - presentMemberU.K. Constitutional Law Association
Aug 2011 - presentMemberSociety of Legal Scholars
Jul 2018 - May 2021Member of Law Panel for Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020University Grants Committee of Hong Kong
Dec 2021External reviewerSingapore’s Social Science Research Council Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship nomination
2019Examiner for Constitutional LawPCLL Conversion Examinations
2020 - presentMember of Constitutional and Legal Tools Workstream of the “Prevention Project”Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022External memberEuropean University Institute's Selection Committee for a Chair in Constitutional Law
Oct 2021 - presentMember of Steering Committee on Law in Support of DemocracyInternational Law Association
2017-2018, 2018-2019External Academic Advisor to Associate Degree of Social Science in Legal StudiesCommunity College of City University
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018Program committee member of the Inaugural Younger Scholars Forum at the XXth CongressInternational Academy of Comparative Law
Jun 2017 - presentCouncil MemberInternational Society of Public Law
Jun 2023 - presentAdvisory Council memberOxford Bonavero Institute for Human Rights
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Public law and jurisprudence
Human rights law
Constitutional theory
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Cantonese英語、粵語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Chinese英文、中文
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