Event Details
Date : 24 Sep 2026 (Thu)
Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)
Speaker : Prof. Shane Chalmers, Faculty of Law, HKU
Facilitator : Prof. Luke Fryer, Assistant Director, TALIC, HKU
Abstract
Over the past three decades, the interdisciplinary field of Law and the Humanities has become a core part of university teaching across North America and the UK, with dedicated associations (including the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities, and the Legal Humanities Association), journals (including Law, Culture and the Humanities, Law and Humanities, and Law & Literature, to name a small fraction), as well as a growing number of handbooks. Yet two places that have made significant contributions to this field are on very different continents: Hong Kong and Australia. This seminar will reflect on a Teaching Exchange Fellowship that brought together one of the field’s founders in Australia, Professor Shaun McVeigh (Melbourne Law School), with colleagues at the University of Hong Kong. If Melbourne Law School is renowned for its graduate research training in this field, then HKU is renowned for its undergraduate double degree in Law and Literary Studies (BA & LLB). The seminar will reflect on this Teaching Exchange Fellowship within the context of the historical emergence, contributions, and future trajectories of this broad field and the work that is being done at HKU.
About the Speaker
Prof. Shane Chalmers is an Assistant Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at HKU, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Adelaide University, a Vice President of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, and Book Review Editor of Law & Literature. He is author of Colonial Legal Imaginary: A Carnivalesque Jurisprudence of the Antipodes (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Liberia and the Dialectic of law: Critical Theory, Pluralism, and the Rule of Law (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor of several edited collections including The Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021).
For information, please contact:
Ms. Canice MOK
Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre- 3917 6069
- tsmok@hku.hk