Julius Yam
Assistant Professor
Biography
Julius Yam joined the HKU Law Faculty in 2021. He studies constitutional law and courts from an interdisciplinary perspective. He holds an LL.B. from the University of Hong Kong and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago. He is a Research Associate at the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, University of Oxford. Prior to joining HKU, he taught at the University of Oxford and was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Fellow Group in Comparative Constitutionalism and Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism, University of Göttingen.
Research Area
- Constitutional Law
- Courts
- Administrative Law
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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