Dr Yan-ho Lai
About
Biography
Dr. Yan-Ho Lai is an associate fellow at the Hong Kong Studies Hub of the University of Surrey, a visiting researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law of King's College London, a non-resident fellow at Georgetown Center for Asian Law (GCAL), a co-convenor of Hong Kong Studies Association and a member of the Asian Civil Society Research Network. He received his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Chevening Scholar in 2013 and his Ph.D in law at SOAS University of London in 2022 respectively. Lai is formerly a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Law Fellow at GCAL.
Areas of specialism
My qualifications
Affiliations and memberships
ResearchResearch interests
Socio-legal studies, contentious politics, legal mobilisation, judicial politics, international human rights law and practice.
Research interests
Socio-legal studies, contentious politics, legal mobilisation, judicial politics, international human rights law and practice.
Publications
Highlights
Lai, Yan-ho (2023). “Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance”. Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 58 (1), pp.8-25.
Lai, Yan-ho & Thomas E. Kellogg (2022). "Departure from International Human Rights Law and Comparative Best Practice: HKSAR v Tong Ying Kit" Hong Kong Law Journal, Vol. 52, Part 2, pp.466 - 486.
Lai, Yan-ho & Ming Sing (2020). "Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limitations", Communist and Post Communist Studies, Vol. 53, No.4, pp.41-67.