Dr. Max W.L. Wong
Programme Director, Assistant Professor

Email: fattymax@hku.hk

Dr. Wong is the Assistant Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Before joining the HKU, he had been working in now TV News Channel, TVB and Hong Kong Economic Times.

Dr. Wong holds PhD and LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, Department of Law, University of London, and LLB from the University of Hong Kong. He is currently the member of the Centre of East Asia Law, SOAS, University of London; Associate member at Chartered Institute of Arbitrator (UK). Previously, he was the Adjunct Professor at the Department of Law and Business, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; Research Associate, Center of Law and Politics Studies, Peking University; Director of the Planning and Development Office, Law School, Shantou University. He had been teaching graduate programmes at local universities on subjects relating to globalisation, media and creative industries.

Book (Refereed)
Wong, Max WL (2020), Chinese Marriage and Social Change: Legal Abolition of Concubinage in Hong Kong, Singapore: Springer. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1644-3)

Wong, Max WL (2017), Re-ordering Hong Kong: Decolonisation and the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance, London: Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing.

Book Chapter
Wong, Max WL (2018), “Social Control and Political Order: Decolonisation and the Use of Emergency Regulation in Hong Kong”, in Michael Ng and John Wong (ed.) Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong: Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives (republished from 2013 article with updates), HKU Press (in Chinese).

Wong, Max WL (2017), “The Abolition of Concubinage in Hong Kong – The Interaction between Coloniality and Modernity”, in He Zhihui(ed.), Research on Hong Kong Legal Culture, (republished from 2011 article with updates), Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book (In Trasitional Chinese).

Wong, Max WL (2016), “The Abolition of Concubinage in Hong Kong – The Interaction between Coloniality and Modernity”, in He Zhihui(ed.), Special Issue of Hong Kong Legal Culture, (republished from 2011 article with updates), China Social Science Academic Press (in Simplified Chinese).

Article
Wong, Max WL (2020), “'Continuity or Empowerment?': Judicial Interpretation of Divorce in the Da Li Yuan in Early Republican China” Special Issue: China's Family Law in Action: The State, Confucian Ideology, and the Struggle for Reform, The Journal of Comparative Law, 15:2, 66-87.

Michael Ng, Shengyue Zhang, Max WL Wong (2020) “‘Who but the Governor in Executive Council is the judge’ – Historical Use of Emergency Regulations Ordinance”, Hong Kong Law Journal Special Issue, 50 Hong Kong Law Journal, [2020] 425-462 (33% contribution).

Wong, Max WL (2018) “‘Chinese Laws as Fundamental, Western Laws as in Assistance’: The Struggle for ‘Retention’ of He Jian in the Qing Criminal Code,” The Journal of Comparative Law, 13:2, 209-341.

Wong, Max WL (2018) “The Legal Protection of the Traditional Cultural Expression in the Greater China Region”, presented at the conference at East Asian Creative Industries in a Global Context: New Opportunities and Challenges, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 26-27 May 2018.

Wong, Max WL (2017), “Judicial Construction of T’sip in Chinese Family Law in East Asia: A Comparative Perspective”, presented at ASAA Conference, University of Sydney 3-5 July 2018.

Wong, Max WL (2013), “British Decolonisation and Hong Kong Bill of Rights Legislation”, Politics and Law Review, Vol.3, pp. 179-233. (in Chinese)

Wong, Max WL (2011), “Social Control and Political Order: Decolonisation and the Use of Emergency Regulation in Hong Kong” Hong Kong Law Journal, [2011] Vol. 42.

Wong, Max WL (2007), “Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political”, Asian Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Jan 2007 (with Cheung, Bing Leung Anthony. My authorship was 50%).

Wong, Max WL (1998), ‘The Meaning of “Charge”: Private Member’s Bills in the Legislative Council’, [1998] 28 Hong Kong Law Journal 230-247.

Conference Paper
Conference Paper, “The Protection of the New Territories Indigenous People: Protection of Economic Rights under the Basic Law”, delivered on 19 May 2017, in The Sixth Anniversary Macau-Canton Legal Forum (Chinese) organised by the Macau Legal System Research Association and Sun Yat-sen University.

Conference Paper, “The Challenges of the New Chief Executive of HKSAR”, delivered on 28 March 2017, organised by the Friends of Hong Kong and Macau Association (with Mainland Affairs Cuncil), Taipei.

Conference Paper, “‘The Invention of Tradition’ or ‘The Politics of Intervention’ -- The Origins of Hong Kong Marriage Reform Ordinance 1971” , Conference Paper attending “Law and Orientalism Workshop”, 17-18 February, 2011.

Conference Paper, “Judicial Review and Policy Making in Hong Kong: Changing Interface between the Legal and the Political”, City University of Hong Kong Conference on Continuing Transformation of Public Administration, 21-22 March 2006.

Book (non-refereed)
Wong, Max WL (2020), Reading Colony (Republished and Update).

Wong, Max WL (2007), Reading Colony II, Up Publications (in Chinese).

Wong, Max WL (2005), Reading Colony, Cup Publication (in Chinese).

Wong, Max WL and others (2000), Secrets Behind Hong Kong 1967 Riots, HKET Press (in Chinese) (My authorship was 25%).

Award
Seed Fund for Basic Research, “The Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Creativity: The Interaction of Law and Public Policy” ($111,050), funded by HKU, Principal Investigator (6. 2018 – 12.2020)

Seed Funding Programme for Basic Research, “The Changing Interface Between
the Creative Industries and Law” ($150,000), funded by HKU, Principal investigator (1. 2016 – 1. 2018).