
Constitutional Change in Asia in the 21st Century
Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

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Notice 1: Please note that at Prof. Dennis Tang's presentation at Plenary Session 4 (at 4 pm on 10 Dec, Tuesday), he will refer to the following Outline. [Link]
Notice 2: Please note that Prof. Eu-Jin Teo has delivered his presentation at Parallel Session A4 (9 Dec, Monday). His full paper is attached here. [Link]
Welcome
The 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum

We are pleased to announce that the 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum (ACLF) will be held in Hong Kong on December 9-10, 2024, under the auspices of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law and its Centre for Comparative and Public Law, with the support of the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies. The event is also part of the celebration of the 55th anniversary of our Faculty of Law. The overarching theme of the Forum is “Constitutional Change in Asia in the 21st Century“. We are honoured that Professor Cheryl Saunders, Professor Gerald Postema and Professor Han Dayuan have agreed to deliver the keynotes for us at this Forum.
The ACLF is held once every two years under the auspices of the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies. Our Faculty of Law hosted the 4th ACLF in December 2011; the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of the Academia Sinica in Taipei hosted the 9th ACLF in May 2022. The Forums provide a forum for dialogue among scholars interested in constitutional law, constitutional theory and constitutional developments in Asia.
Conference Management Committee
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.
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.
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.