Professor Lin Feng

Profile

Lin Feng is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. He is in charge of the Centre for Judicial Education and Research and three training programmes for Chinese incumbent judges. Professor Lin is a comparative legal scholar who has been trained in law in both mainland China and New Zealand. He is a practicing barrister and a law reform commissioner in Hong Kong. He has worked with Professor Li Yuwen on an EU-China project on comparative study of judicial review in EU and China. Professor Lin’s research interests include Chinese and Hong Kong legal systems, comparative constitutional law (especially the interaction and/or conflict between Chinese legal system and Hong Kong’s common law system through the Basic Law of Hong Kong), the study of Chinese and Hong Kong judiciary from a comparative perspective, and Chinese and Hong Kong environmental law.

Research

Publications

Lin Feng’s recent publications include:

• ‘Constitutionality of Colocation of CIQ at West Kowloon High Speed Rail Terminus’, HKLJ, Vol. 47, pt. 3, 2017, pp. 699-732;
• ‘Interaction between International Standards and Domestic Constitutional Norms – A Case Study of the Chief Executive Election in Hong Kong’, HKLJ, vol. 46, part 1, 2016, pp. 193-223;
• Lin Feng & Jason Buhi, ‘The Constitutional Imperative of Equitably distributing the Proceeds of Mineral Resource Extraction from China’s Ethnic Minority Autonomous Areas’, Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law, vol. 4, no. 1, 2011-2012, pp. 1-29;
• Lin Feng & Jason Buhi, ‘Emission Trading Across China: Designing an Urgently Needed Air Pollution Control Regime for the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau under “One Country, Two Systems”’, The Florida State University's Journal of Transnational Law and Policy, 19, Fall, 2009, No. 1, pp. 123-177;
• LIN Feng, The Expatriate Judges and Rule of Law in Hong Kong: Its Past, Present and Future, in Shimon Shetreet & Wayne McCormack (ed.), The Culture of Judicial Independence in a Globalized World, Brill Nijhoff, 2016, pp.279-312;
• LIN Feng and Wang Shucheng, ‘Protection of Labour Rights through Judicial Legislation in China: An Analysis of its Constitutionality and Possible Solution’, in Surya Deva (ed), Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Comparative Insights from India and China, 2016, pp. 166-186;