251:, the Broadcasting Authority, the Press Council, the Administrative Appeals Board, the Municipal Services Appeals Board, the Law Reform Sub-Committee on Privacy, the Council of the Hong Kong Red Cross, and the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government. He has served on the Consumer Council for 12 years and was the chairman of its Consumer Legal Action Fund for 6 years until 2010, during which time he oversaw, among other things, a test case involving the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In 1995, he was elected as one of the Ten Young Outstanding Persons in Hong Kong. In 1997, he received the Badge of Honour from the
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362:, citing from a then embargoed University Grants Commission report, stated that the HKU Law Faculty had lost its leading research position to Chinese University of Hong Kong when Chan was the dean of the law school. The pro-China newspapers accused Chan of allowing the Faculty to be too involved in politics and for not taking steps to prevent his staff Associate Professor
213:, is a leading treatise on the unique constitution of One Country, Two Systems, in Hong Kong. According to declassified documents at the Public Records Office in 2018, one of his early articles on A Bill of Rights for Hong Kong has significantly influenced the thinking of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and shaped the final format of the
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through a secret ballot in a closed meeting; no reason for the decision was provided. Subsequent leakage of the discussions at the council meeting suggested that the reasons for rejection had nothing to do with the merits of his appointment. HKU successfully obtained an injunction restraining publications of such leaked information.
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global law schools which has consistently been ranked within the top 20 law schools in the world. He is one of the pioneers in offering a common law training programme to train judges and legal officers of the
Mainland, and together with UCL and Peking University, he introduced a series of rule of law programmes in the Mainland.
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The council was criticised when it repeatedly deferred the decision to appoint Chan, stating that it should wait until a new provost was in place. The decision was repeatedly delayed through votes on 30 June and 28 July. On 29 September 2015, the council rejected Chan's appointment (by 12 votes to 8)
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as a lecturer in 1985, became a professor in 1998, the head of department of law in 1999โ2002, and the dean of the faculty of law in 2002โ2014. During his deanship he has led the transformation of the faculty of law of the
University of Hong Kong from a local teaching law school to one of the leading
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from carrying out the turbulent civic movement of Occupy
Central. For the following nine months Chan was subject to extensive public attacks by the pro-establishment media. When the University Grants Commission Report was published, it showed that HKU Law Faculty lost only by a small margin in the
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In August 2018, Chan received a two-year contract extension, rather than the five years that he had applied for. It was reported that Hong Kong
University did not give a substantial reason for the decision; a university spokesperson pointing to the "robust evaluation-approval process" applying to
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in 2003 when he was among the loudest critics of the
National Security Bill introduced by the HKSAR Government, since the visit fell on the week that the Macau Legislature adopted its National Security Law. . Chan had no difficulty visiting Mainland China or Taiwan. The only explanation given by
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parties. In 2015, he was unanimously recommended by a search committee to become the pro-vice-chancellor of the
University of Hong Kong, but the recommendation was, exceptionally, not accepted by the university council; the decision was widely criticised as being an interference with academic
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287:, he was not allowed to enter Macau. The ban was widely reported internationally and the Macau Government was criticised for interfering with freedom of expression and academic freedom. Chan believed the ban was related to his role in the
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condemned Chan sharply, saying: "I hope that this law professor can sleep at night", and warned of possible "bloodshed" in the city as a result of Chan's comments.
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