Alwin Chan 陳維灝
Department of Professional Legal Education
Principal Lecturer
LLB & PCLL (HKU)
LLM (London School of Economics)
Barrister of the High Court of the HKSAR
Biography
Alwin Chan obtained Bachelor of Laws degree and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong. He also obtained his Master of Law degree from the London School of Economics.
Alwin is a practising barrister in Hong Kong. His main areas of interest are land law, property rights, and building management. In 2020 he was a legal consultant for the Task Force for the Study on Tenancy Controls of Subdivided Units in Hong Kong. He is also a co-principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Fund Grant 2020/21 “Hong Kong Insolvency and Restructuring Law and Policy in Times of COVID-19 and Beyond”.
Alwin is the course coordinator of Property Litigation (PCLL) and Land Law III (LLB & JD). Other than these two courses, he is teaching / has taught a range of courses, including Land Law I & II, Personal Injuries, Civil Litigation, Professional Practice & Management, and Civil Advocacy.
Research Area
- Land Law
- Personal Injuries
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Current Teaching
Publications
Civil Litigation
Property Litigation
Land Law
Personal Injuries
Civil Advocacy
Professional Practice
Co-author: Halsbury Laws of Hong Kong Vol 18(1): Conveyancing. (2020)
Annotator: Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong: Conveyancing & Property Ordinance (2020)
Co-author: Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities. Forthcoming in 2022 the American Journal of Comparative Law. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3507887