Biography

PROFESSOR JOHANNES M M CHAN is Professor of Law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law (2002-2014), being the longest serving Dean of the Faculty. He was also a visiting professor to a number of universities in Europe and Asia, including being the BOK Visiting International Professor of Penn Law School, University of Pennsylvania (2014), Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professor of Cambridge University (2015), and a visiting fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. In recognition of his distinguished contribution to legal development through both advocacy in courts and legal research and publications, he was honoured by the Chief Justice in 2003 by his appointment as the first (and so far the only) Honorary Senior Counsel in Hong Kong

Research Intrest

Human rights, constitutional and administrative law,

List of Publications
J Chan, Insights into Law and Politics (法政
J Chan, Hong Kong Human Rights Bibliography (Hong Kong Law Journal Ltd, 2006), 114 pp
A Chen, J Chan, A Lee, A Luk (eds), General Principles of Hong Kong Law (香港法概論) (Joint Publisher, 2nd ed, 2009), 511 pp + x
A Chen, J Chan, A Lee, Zhong Jian-hua and Lee Yahong (eds), General Principles of Hong Kong Law (香港法概論) (Joint Publisher, 1999), 469 pp + x (in Chinese)(30% contribution)
J Chan, On the Road to Justice (Hong Kong: Stepforward
J Chan, Reflections at the Academia (翰林隨筆:在公義路上的反思) (Ming Pao Publishing, 2010) (
J Chan & C L Lim (eds), Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (Sweet & Maxwell, 2011), 1011 pp + xciii
A Chen, J Chan, A Lee, A Luk (eds), General Principles of Hong Kong Law
J Chan and K Bokhary, Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong: Constitutional Law,
J Chan & C L Lim (eds), Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd ed, 2015), 1165 pp (solely responsible for editing; sole author of 6 chapters; 50% contribution for 2 joint chapters) (The leading authoritative work on Constitutional Law in Hong Kong which has been cited on many occasions by the Hong Kong Judiciary (eg, Kong Yunming v Director of Social Welfare (2013) 16 HKCFAR 950; Secretary for Justice v Liu Wing Kwong [2014] 2 HKLRD 155; Koon Ping Leung v Director of Lands [2012] 2 HKC 329; GA v Director of Immigration [2014] 3 HKC 11, para 72); Hysan Development Co Ltd v Town Planning Board, CACV 232/2012) 2015 J Chan and
J Chan, Paths of Justice (Hong Kong University Press, 2018)