Dr Julius Yam
DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director, Juris Doctor Programme
LL.B., University of Hong Kong
LL.M., University of Chicago
D.Phil. in Law, University of Oxford (Trinity College)
Biography
Dr Julius Yam studies constitutional law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds a D.Phil. in Law from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. from the University of Chicago and an LL.B. from the University of Hong Kong. He is also a Research Associate at the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, University of Oxford. He has held visiting positions at the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne, the Max Planck Fellow Group in Comparative Constitutionalism, and the University of Göttingen.
Research Areas
- Constitutional Law
- Courts
- Public Law and Technology
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Select Publications
‘Approaching the Legitimacy Paradox in Hong Kong: Lessons for Hybrid Regime Courts’ (2021) 46 Law & Social Inquiry 153
‘The Law of Attraction: How Similarity Between Judges and Lawyers Helps Win Cases in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal’ (2021) 65 International Review of Law & Economics (with Mark Verhagen)
‘Amnesty for Street Protesters’ (2020) 50 Hong Kong Law Journal 585 (with Anna Dziedzic)
‘Political Crowdfunding of Rights’ (2020) 50 Hong Kong Law Journal 395