Professor David Seipp (Boston University)
A member of the Boston University Law faculty since 1986, Professor Seipp has taught courses in English legal history, American legal history, the history of legal education, property, intellectual property, trusts and estates, and introduction to US law. He is now writing a volume of the Oxford History of the Laws of England for the period 1399 to 1483.  He has compiled a database indexing and paraphrasing more than 22,000 early English cases reported for the years 1268 to 1535, and has contributed to legal journals and Proceedings of the British Legal History Conference.  He has written introductions to reprints of the Year Books and the early Abridgements.  He is a trustee of the Ames Foundation and delivered the Youard Lecture in Legal History to the Oxford Law Faculty in 2015.

Professor Seipp was a Bicentennial Scholar at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England, and a member of the law review at Harvard. He also has served as clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and as an associate at the firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot in Boston.

Philip Dykes (Senior Counsel)
Philip Dykes read English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1977. He practised for several years on the Northern Circuit from chambers in Manchester. He came to Hong Kong in 1985 to work in the Attorney General’s Chambers. After a short spell as a prosecutor, he worked on constitutional matters for the Solicitor General and Attorney General and became Assistant Solicitor General in 1989.

In 1991 he left colonial government service and joined the chambers of Dennis Chang QC and developed a public law practice. He took silk in 1997. He continues to work in the public law field. He was Chairman of the Bar from 2005 to 2007.

His expertise in darrein presentment and novel dissesin is unrivalled. Occasionally, he can assist in mitigating excessive aids and amercements levied by feudal superiors. Trials by ordeal are a particular speciality. Recommendations: ‘Acer et vehemens bonus orator’ (Eustace the Monk); ‘Vir bonus dicendi peritus’  (Robert fitz Walter, Marshal of the Army of God); ‘ad idem’ (Philip Marc, Sheriff of Nottingham)

Catharine MacMillan (The University of Reading)
Catharine MacMillan, BA, LLB, LLM, Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England and Wales, non-practising) and Barrister and Solicitor (British Columbia, non-practising) is a Professor of Law and Legal History at the University of Reading.  Her research is concentrated upon the development of the common law in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, particularly the development of contract and commercial law.   In conjunction with this work she has been undertaking research into the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and its role in the development of law throughout the British Empire.

Dr Surya Deva (The City University of Hong Kong)
Dr Surya Deva is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong.  His primary research interests lie in Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Comparative Constitutional Law.  Prof Deva has published extensively in these areas.  His books include Socio-Economic Rights in Emerging Free Markets: Comparative Insights from India and China (editor) (Routledge, 2015); Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect? (co-edited with David Bilchitz) (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Confronting Capital Punishment in Asia: Human Rights, Politics, Public Opinion and Practices (co-edited with Roger Hood) (Oxford University Press, 2013); and Regulating Corporate Human Rights Violations: Humanizing Business (Routledge, 2012).  Prof Deva has advised the UN bodies, governments, multinational corporations and civil society organisation on matters related to ‘business and human rights’.  Prof Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge University Press), and sits on the Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law.  In 2014, he was elected a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

Dr. Jojo Mo (The City University of Hong Kong)
Dr. Jojo Mo is an assistant professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong specialising in privacy law and information technology law. She obtained her PhD degree at Monash University and her LLM degree at King’s College London and has published in leading journals including the Public Law Review and Asian Journal of Comparative Law as well as chapters in both student and practitioner’s texts. Her article in the Public Law Review specifically looks at the constitutional restraints in the development of a privacy action in Hong Kong. She is currently teaching Hong Kong Legal System and Legal Method to LLB and JD students.

Professor Eric Ip (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Eric C. Ip is an Assistant Professor of Law at CUHK Law. He holds a D.Phil. in law from the University of Oxford. His research on regulation, public law, and economic analysis of law has been published in The American Journal of Comparative Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and Supreme Court Economic Review. He is the author of Law and Justice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell 2014). Prior to joining CUHK Law in 2012, he taught at the School of Public Policy, University College London (UCL).

Professor Stuart Hargreaves (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Hargreaves is an Assistant Professor, the Director of the LLB programme, and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Toronto, a BCL from Oxford University, a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a BA in politics and sociology from McGill University.  Prior to joining CUHK, Prof. Hargreaves held academic appointments at Osgoode Hall Law School (teaching property law and information & privacy law) and the Ted Rodgers School of Management at Ryerson University (teaching Canadian business law).  He has also worked as a policy advisor to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and has practiced law for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, in the constitutional law and policy branch.  Both his teaching and his research & writing reflect this mixed background, with a dual focus on information & privacy law as well as constitutional law & legal theory.

Dr Sherif Elgebeily (The University of Hong Kong)
Dr Sherif Elgebeily is Assistant Research Officer for the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, and part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He is a founding member, former Editor-in-chief and current Member of the Advisory Board of the Westminster Law Review, UK. His previous experience includes drafting Space Policy for the European Commission in Brussels, co-drafting Human Rights and other reports for the Iraq Team of the UN Department of Political Affairs in New York, and researching media law at the Child Law Centre, University of Pretoria. His research interests include the rule of law, comparative constitutional law, the UN Security Council and international peace, international criminal law, and international human rights law.

Professor Christopher F Forsyth (University of Cambridge)
Christopher Forsyth holds the chair of Public Law and Private International Law at the University of Cambridge. He is the author with the late Sir William Wade, QC of Administrative Law (11th ed, 2014) a standard work on the subject cited regularly by courts and counsel through the common law world. He is the author or editor of more than nine other books on different aspects of public law and private international law as well as about 100 journal articles. He is a Bencher of the Inner Temple.