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Online | National Security Law in Hong Kong
28 February 2022, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm
A virtual lecture to be delivered by Professor Johannes M M Chan, SC (Hon)
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UCL Laws
Speaker: Prof. Johannes M M Chan, SC (Hon) (Chair of Public Law and the longest serving Dean of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (2002-2014), and currently a Visiting Professor of University College London (2018-2023).
Discussant: Prof. Jeff King (Professor of Law, University College London)
Chair: Prof. Dame Hazel Genn DBE QC (Hon) (Vice-President - External Engagement, University College London)
About the Lecture
The National Security Law (“NSL”) in Hong Kong came into effect on 30 June 2021. Enacted by the National People’s Congress for the HKSAR, the NSL was pushed through the legislative process within a short period of time without any meaningful consultation of the people of Hong Kong. Since its enactment, it has changed the social, legal and political landscape in Hong Kong in a most profound manner. This lecture examines the constitutional, legal and social impact of the NSL, the judicial responses to the NSL, and how the NSL affects the nature and prospect of the “One Country, Two Systems” constitutional model in the HKSAR.
About the Speaker
Professor Johannes Chan was the Chair of Public Law and the longest serving Dean of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (2002-2014), and currently a Visiting Professor of University College London (2018-2023). He specializes in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and has published widely in these fields. He was also the BOK Visiting Professor of University of Pennsylvania Law School (2014) and Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professor at Cambridge University (2015). In 2019, he received the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Prestigious Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of his outstanding research contribution. He retired from the University of Hong Kong in July 2021.
He was appointed the first (and so far the only) Honorary Senior Counsel in Hong Kong in 2003, and has appeared as leading counsel in many major constitutional law cases.