1. Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China. This project seeks to provide a comprehensive survey of history, concepts, process, institutions, and current issues of constitutional law in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan; and critically discuss leading views on these issues. The Handbook aims to expand both jurisdiction-based and comparative scholarship on constitutional law in greater China.
   
   
2. The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia

   This project seeks to explore and explain how and why the idea of unconstitutional constitutional amendment informs diverse political activities (e.g. political debate, discourse, and mobilization) through diverse forums (e.g. legislative, judicial, and popular) by diverse social and political actors (e.g. judges, politicians, lawyers, scholars, activists, political parties, and social movement actors) in both formal and informal constitutional amendment process in Asia. This project features 10 case studies across Asia: East Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam), and South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan).

   This project involves the symposium to be held by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law in November 2020.

   The outcomes of the project will be published as an edited volume in the Routledge Series in Comparative Constitutional Change.

3. Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

   This project brought together a diverse group of scholars to discuss how polities in the Asia-Pacific region respond to the global spread of ideas and institutions of constitutionalism, and why they respond in a certain way.

   As a part of this project, the Symposium on “Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives” hosted by the CUHK Law was held on 28 – 29 March 2019. The Symposium featured the keynote speaker, Professor Cheryl Saunders, Laureate Professor Emeritus at Melbourne Law School and President Emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Participants explored the interrelated global, transnational, and local aspects of constitution-making, judicial review, and scholarly discourse in different jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific.

   This project also involved two panels in the 8^th Asian Constitutional Forum held in Hanoi on 6-7 Dec 2019.

   The Symposium proceeds will be published in the journal Global Constitutionalism by Cambridge University Press.

4. Towering Judges 

   This project brought together a diverse group of scholars to discuss the phenomenon of judges who, within their particular institutional and political settings, were able to transform their constitutional systems. Towering judges from the following jurisdictions were examined: Hong Kong, India, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Hungary, Vietnam, Chile, Israel, the United States, Canada and Australia. The project considered, among others, these issues: (1) Why do we tend to find towering figure judges in moments of constitutional and democratic change in some countries and not in others;  (2) how effective are towering figure judges in promoting democratic consolidation and in effectuating constitutional change; (3) can we find examples of towering figure judges that have had a detrimental effect on democratic change, either by using the wrong tactics, producing political backlash, or by actively promoting reactionary or anti-liberal ideas; (4) what kind of legacy do towering figure judges leave, and do their achievements carry on to a second generation of judges. 

   The project culminated in a conference took place on 25-26 January 2019 at the CUHK LAW Graduate Law Centre. The conference opened with a Keynote Address from the Hon. Mr. Justice Kemal Bokhary, Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. His remarks are available here.

   The project also featured a joint I-CONnect/IACL-AIDC blog symposium on “Towering Judges.”

   The outcomes of this project will be published in a forthcoming edited volume by Cambridge University Press entitled “Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges”. 

Books

Image to be included	Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves, and Ryan Mitchell (eds), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China (under contract with Routledge).
Image to be included	Po Jen Yap and Rehan Abeyratne (eds), Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (under contract with Routledge).
Image to be included	Rehan Abeyratne and Bui Ngoc Son (eds), The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (under contract with Routledge).
Image to be included	W. Chang, K. Loper, M. Malagodi, and R. Rubio-Marín (eds.), Gender, Sexuality, and Constitutionalism in Asia (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2021).
Image to be included	Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat (eds), Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2021).
Image to be included	Ryan Mitchell, Recentering the World: China’s Reception and Contention of International Law (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2021).
	Bui Ngoc Son, Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (Oxford University Press,2020).
	Michae Ramsden and Stuart Hargreaves, The Hong Kong Basic Law Handbook, 2nd edition (Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, 2019).
	Jaclyn Neo and Bui Ngoc Son (eds), Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, 2019).
	Kevin Tan and Bui Ngoc Son (eds), Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, 2019).

Journal Articles

• Mara Malagodi, ‘Holy Cows and Constitutional Nationalism in Nepal’ 80 Asian Ethnology (forthcoming 2021).
• Christopher Roberts, ‘Forging the National Security State: Public Order Legality in Britain, 1900-1918,’ Unbound: the Harvard Journal of the Legal Left (forthcoming).
• Christopher Roberts, ‘Experiments with Suppression: The Evolution of Repressive Legality in Britain in the Revolutionary Period’ Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review (forthcoming, 2020)
• Po Jen Yap and Rehan Abeyratne, ‘Judicial Self-Dealing and Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in South Asia,’ International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2020)
• Rehan Abeyratne, ‘Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights in Neoliberal India’ 29 Minnesota Journal of International Law (2020).
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘The Socialist Precedent’, 52 Cornell International Law Journal (2020)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘You, the People: Cuba’s International Constitution,’ 52 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (2020)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘International Law as Project or System?’ 51 Georgetown Journal of International Law 3 (2020)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘Chinese Receptions of Carl Schmitt Since 1929’ 8 Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs 1 (2020)
• Rehan Abeyratne, ‘Uncertain Sovereignty: Ceylon as a Dominion 1948-72,’ 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2019).
• Rehan Abeyratne, ‘Ordinary Wrongs as Constitutional Rights: The Public Law Model of Torts in South Asia’ 54 Texas International Law Journal (2019).
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Constitutional Amendment in Laos’ 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan,’ 14 Asian Journal of Comparative Law (2019)
• Jaclyn Neo and Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Expanding the Universe of Comparative Constitutional Amendment in Southeast Asia,’ 14 Journal of Comparative Law (2019)
• Maartje de Visser and Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Contemporary Constitution Making in Asia-Pacific,’ 7 The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (2019)
• Maartje de Visser and Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Glocolized Constitution-Making – Evidence from Asia’, 8 Global Constitutionalism (2019)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Law and Development Theory: A Dialogical Engagement’ 51 George Washington International Law Review (2019)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Economic Constitution in the Developing World’, Law and Development Review (2019)
• Stuart Hargreaves, ‘Grinding Down the Edges of the Free Expression Right in Hong Kong’ 44 Brooklyn Journal of International Law (2019).
• Lokman Tsui and Stuart Hargreaves, ‘Who Decides What is ‘Personal Data’? Utilizing the Access Principle with Telecommunications and Internet Providers in Hong Kong’ 13 International Journal of Communication 2019.
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Dominion Status and the Origins of Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Pakistan’ 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)
• Mara Malagodi, Luke McDonagh, Thomas Poole, ‘New Dominion constitutionalism at the twilight of the British Empire: an introduction’ 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)
• Mara Malagodi, Luke McDonagh, Thomas Poole, ‘The New Dominion Model of Transnational Constitutionalism’,17 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2019)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘Hegemony in a Multipolar World Order: Global Constitutionalism and the Großraum’ Jus Cogens (2019)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘International Law as a Coercive Order: Hans Kelsen and the Transformations of Sanction’ 29 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review (2019)
• Christopher Roberts, ‘From the State of Emergency to the Rule of Law: The Evolution of Repressive Legality in the Nineteenth Century British Empire’ 20 Chicago Journal of International Law (2019)

Book Chapters

• Mara Malagodi, Ivor Jennings, the Law and the Constitution’, in Leading Works in Public Law (P. O’Brien and B. Young eds., Routledge, forthcoming 2021)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘The Party-Regimes in Asia,’ in The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law In Asia (David Law et al eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Nepal’ in The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law In Asia (David Law, Holning Lau, and Alex Schwartz eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Constitutional History and Constitutional Migration: Nepal’ in Constitutionalism in Context, Asia, David Law ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021
• Rehan Abeyratne, ‘PN Bhagwati and the Transformation of India’s Judiciary’, in Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)
• Rehan Abeyratne, ‘More Structure, More Deference: Proportionality in Hong Kong,’ in Proportionality in Asia (Po Jen Yap ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment: The Case of Thailand,’ In Identity and Change – The Basic Structure in Asian Constitutional Orders (Henning Glaser ed., Nomos’s CPG Series of Comparative Constitutional Law, Politics and Governance, forthcoming, 2020).
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘The Socialist Model of Individual Judicial Powers,’ in Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Nepal’s Heroic Judge: Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha’, in Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘Myanmar and the Hegemonic Discourse of International Criminal Law: Three Critiques and Some Suggestions,’ in Colonial Wrongs, Double Standards, and Access to International Law (Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, forthcoming 2020).
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘The Chinese Interpretation of Sovereignty and Its Human Rights Implications,’ in Shifting Power and Human Rights – China (Amnesty International Netherlands, 2020)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Legal Regulation of Religion in Vietnam,’ in Regulating Religions in Asia 146-168 (Jaclyn Neo et al eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia: A Constitutional-History Perspective,’ in   Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia 1-10 (Kevin Tan and Bùi Ngọc Sơn eds., Hart Publishing, 2019) (with Kevin Tan).
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asian Context,’ in   Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia 1-24 (Jaclyn Neo and Bùi Ngọc Sơn eds., Hart Publishing, 2019) (with Jaclyn Neo)
• Bui Ngoc Son, ‘Constitution in Ethnically Plural Societies: Vietnam and Laos,’ in Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia 203-224 (Jaclyn Neo and Bùi Ngọc Sơn eds., Hart Publishing, 2019)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Godot Has Arrived! Federal Restructuring in Nepal’ in Dealing with Territorial Cleavages in Constitutional Transitions (S. Choudhry and G. Anderson eds. 2019)
• Stuart Hargreaves, ‘APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules System’, in Privacy Rights in the Digital Age, 2^nd (C. Anglim, ed., Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2019).

Other Publications

• Christopher Roberts, ‘Exacerbating the Public Health Emergency in Iran: US Blanket Sanctions and the COVID-19 Crisis’  Verfassungsblog   (Mar. 20, 2020)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Godot Has Arrived – Federal Restructuring in Nepal,’ Forum of Federations. (2019)
• Rehan Abeyratne and Iddo Porat, ‘Introduction: Towering Judges in a Comparative Perspective’ Judge’ in Joint Symposium on Towering Judges iCONnect (2019)
• Mara Malagodi, ‘Kalyan Shrestha: A Foundational, Not Towering Judge’ in Joint Symposium on Towering Judges iCONnect (2019)
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘The Korean War and the Ontology of Intervention: Chen Tiqiang’s   Who Is Undermining International Law?’ Legal Form, March 5, 2019
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘With China on the Moon’ ChinaFile Conversation, January 11, 2019
• Ryan Mitchell, ‘A Hegelian Logic Underlying Contemporary Conservative Populisms?’ Critical Legal Thinking, January 2, 2019.

• Seminar on New Dominion Constitutionalism and New Directions in Comparative Constitutional Research (Online)
  (Co-organized with Transnational Legal History Group)
  7 July 2020
• Seminar on Intersectional Discrimination (Online)
  4 May 2020
• Symposium on Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
  28 – 29 March 2019
• Conference on Towering Judges
  25-26 January 2019

• Prof. Ngọc Sơn BÙI has published an article “You, the People: Cuba’s International Constitution” in the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (2020).
• Call for Chapters: The Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China (Deadline: 1 October 2020)
• Prof. Christopher Roberts delivered a faculty seminar “Experiments with Suppression: The Evolution of Repressive Legality in Britain in the Revolutionary Period” (08 January 2020)
• Seven CUHK LAW professors and one PhD student presented research at 8th Asian Constitutional Law Forum (6-7 December 2019)
• Dr. Yaniv Roznai delivered a seminar “Who Will Save the Redheads? Towards a Bully Theory of Judicial Review and the Protection of Democracy” (30 October 2019)
• Prof. Ngoc Son Bui conducted research visits in Havana, Cuba (June 2019)