East Asian Legal Studies presents:
Professor
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities
Universi
ty of Hong Kong
In Conversation With
Professor
Bill Alford
Jerome A. and
Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Fu Hualing is Professor of Law and holder of the Warren Chan Professorship in Human Right s and Responsibilities at the University of Hong Kong. He holds an LL.B. fr om Southwestern University in China\, an M.A. from University of Toronto an d a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from OsgoodeHall.
Professor Fu’s c urrent research focuses on the rise of human rights lawyering in China and its implications for political and legal reform in China\, the politics of anti-corruption enforcement\, popular justice (including China’s evolving u se of mediation processes)\, and a critical re-assessment of rule of law re form in China in the past four decades. His other research areas include th e constitutional status of Hong Kong\, in particular central-local relation ships in the Hong Kong context and national security legislation.
Pro fessor Fu has published widely in various books and journals\, and as a bel iever in collaborative approaches to scholarship has co-edited a number of significant studies including Hong Kong’s Constitutional Debate: Confli ct over Interpretation (HKU Press 2000)\; National Security and Fu ndamental Freedoms: Hong Kong’s Article 23 Under Scrutiny(HKU Press 20 05)\; Liu Xiaobo\, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China (HKU Press 2012)\; Mediation in Contemporary China (Wi ldy\, Simmonds and Hill 2017)\; Transparency Challenges Facing China (Wildy\, Simmonds and Hill 2018)\; Socialist Law in Socialist East A sia (Cambridge University Press 2018)\; Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation\, Development and Transition (Cambridge University Pre ss 2020)\; The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Tran sformation (HKU Press 2022)\; and Regime Type and Beyond: The Tran sformation of Police in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023).
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