Cora Chan’s research interests are in constitutional theory, human rights and public law. She is currently studying the phenomenon of judicial deference in human rights adjudication. Her works on this topic have been the subject of a number of awards, including the 2012 Society of Legal Scholars Best Paper Prize (for her paper “Proportionality and Invariable Baseline Intensity of Review”); and the 2012-2013 University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize (for her article “Deference, Expertise and Information-Gathering Powers”). In 2013, she received a competitive grant from Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council to examine deference in Hong Kong courts. The Council awarded her the Early Career Award on top of the grant in recognition of the excellent quality of her grant proposal.

Cora is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong’s double degree programme in law and political science. Upon completion of the programme, she attended Brasenose College at the University of Oxford, where she obtained the BCL degree and was awarded the Ralph Chiles CBE Prize in Human Rights. She was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2009.

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