The Faculty congratulates Giuliano Castellano, Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, has been awarded the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025 (Faculty of Law) for his research Secured Transactions: Reshaping Standards, Policies, and Law Reform to Bridge the Credit Gap.

Cora Chan, Professor of Faculty of Law, has been awarded the University’s Research Output Prize 2024-25 (Faculty of Law) for her book Deference in Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2024, 224pp).

The Faculty’s Research Output Prize this year goes to Taorui Guan (Assistant Professor), Kelvin Kwok (Associate Professor), Edward Lui (Assistant Professor) and Weilin Xiao (Assistant Professor) for their outputs below:

  1. Cooperative Federalism and Patent Legislation: A Study Comparing China and the United States (Chicago Journal of International Law, Volume 24, Number 2, p. 259-306) by Taorui Guan
  2. An Autonomy Theory of Consumer Protection Law (Antitrust Law Journal, Volume 86, Issue 2, pp. 411-472) by Kelvin Kwok
  3. A limited case for the closed material procedure: natural justice, open justice and the clear advantage variation (Legal Studies, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 668-684) by Edward Lui
  4. Expansion and Restriction: Divergent Paths Towards Modernizing Family Laws in Japan and China, 1868–1930 (The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 72, Issue 2, pp. 428–473) by Weilin Xiao

The Selection Panel was deeply impressed with the quality of the outputs, especially the awardees’ original insight and thoughtful presentation.

Congratulations to all the awardees on their outstanding achievements.