This talk is based on an article that was recently published in the Chicago Journal of International Law. It presents a comparative study of judicial references in Hong Kong and the E.U.  The talk will introduce the audience to some structural features and problems of the Hong Kong judicial system. Through this lens, it will explore legal transplantation, the importance of comparative study for developing a new legal system, and the rot that quickly overcomes a profession when lawyers shun learning from other systems.  For those interested, the original article can be seen online at https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cjil/vol19/iss1/1/.

About the Speaker:
Patrick Jiang has a B.S. from MIT, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and an LL.M. from University College London. He was an editor for the Boston University Law Review. He was previously an associate with Skadden in Hong Kong and Goodwin Procter in Boston, MA. He was recently a lecturer at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. His research interests include comparative constitutional law, law and economics, and legal theory.