Prof. LIN Feng (林峰)

LLB Fudan 
LLM Wellington 
PhD Peking 
Barrister (Middle Temple, England and Wales, Hong Kong)

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Visiting address
LI-6108
Phone: +852 34427400

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Research Interests/Areas

  • Comparative Constitutional and Administrative Law
  • Comparative Environmental Law
  • Comparative Labour (Employment) Law

Editor or Editorial Membership

  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Asia Pacific Law Review, since 2013 (the ranking of our Journal in SSCI has improved since my colleague Frank and I were in charge of editing)

Services in CityU

  • Associate Dean, 1 August 2014 – now;
  • Member, University Appeals Committee, 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2016;
  • Acting Dean, 1 August 2013 – 29 July 2014;
  • Member, Senate, City University of Hong Kong, elected member, 2014-15 (ex-officio in 2013-14 as Acting Dean);
  • Member, PBPR Central Committee (Schools and Centres), present member;
  • School Performance Assessment Committee, elected member from members at Chair professor and Professor level, for 2014-15;
  • Member, School Staffing Committee, 2014-15;
  • Director, Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, 2007 – now (associate director from 1998 – 2007);
  • Programme Leader of LLM programme, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, from 1995 to 2005, and 2008- 2010;
  • Member of the Knowledge Transfer Committee (2010-now)
  • Member of the Committee for Review of Personnel Procedures for Academic and Teaching Staff, appointed by the President;
  • Member of the University Intellectual Property Committee, 2005 to 2008;
  • Chairman, School of Graduate Studies Committee;
  • Member, Board of Graduate Studies;
  • Member, CRDC Committee;
  • University Committee on Reappointment of Assistant Professors;
  • Member of School of Law Staffing Committee, 2005  to 2009;
  • Member of the Executive Committee of School of Law, 2005 up to now;
  • Member of the Law School Research Committee, 1995 to 2002; 2007- now;
  • Warden for Postgraduate Hall, 2004 up to 2010;
  • Member of Investigation Committee on Sexual Harassment (appointed by the President) (ad hoc committee), in 2006 and 2007 on two different cases;
  • Member of two other Investigation Committees on disciplinary cases
  • Former programme leader for JSD programme;
  • Programme Leader for LLB Programme, 2005 up to 2007.

Services outside CityU

  • Member of the Technical Committee of the HKQAA as an expert on Chinese employment and social security law, 1999 onwards.
  • Member of Special Committee on Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Bar Council of Hong Kong Bar Association, 2007 to now.
  • Director of Hong Kong Foundation for Legal Studies Ltd
  • Director of Mental Health Foundation Limited
  • Member of Hong Kong Law Reform Commission
  • Member of Special Committee on Constitutional Law and Human Rights of the Bar Council, HK Bar
  • Councillor of China Law Association (中国法学会)
  • Councillor of Chinese Judicial Research Institute (中华司法研究会)
  • Examiner of Examiner for Overseas Lawyers of the Bar
  • Examiner of Examiner for the OLQE of the Law Society
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Law Review