On 9-10 December 2024, the Faculty of Law and the Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) at HKU and the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies co-organised the 10th Asian Constitutional Law Forum (ACLF). We welcomed around 200 scholars from 35 jurisdictions around the world. This is the largest event that the Faculty has hosted since its hosting of the International Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference in 2018.
The ACLF is a public law conference that is held every two years in a law school in Asia. Since its inauguration in 2005, the ALCF has evolved into a cornerstone event, fostering robust dialogue and collaborative efforts among scholars engaged in a collective endeavour to study the constitutional landscapes of Asia. The theme of the 10th ACLF is ‘Constitutional Change in Asia in the 21st Century’. We were honoured to have Professor Gerald Postema and Professor Cheryl Saunders deliver keynote presentations. In addition, there were three plenary sessions on constitutional moments in Asia, one plenary session on the Chinese Constitution and ‘one country, two systems’, and forty parallel panels on a wide range of topics in constitutional law, administrative law, human rights law, criminal law, international law, and beyond. We will recall the conference fondly, as it featured the work of and facilitated vibrant exchanges amongst scholars from different regions, races, cultures, generations, and genders, and marked, amongst other things, the 55th anniversary of the Faculty of Law.
Photo on the left: Professor Hualing Fu, Dean of Law. Photo on the right (From left): Professor Cora Chan; Professor Cheryl Saunders
Photo on the left (From left): Professor Andrew Harding; Professor Albert Chen. Photo on the right: Professor Gerald Postema