WAN Man Ho Marco 温文灝 (Fellow)
Fields of study:
Law and Humanities, Legal Philosophy, Constitutional Law, Gender and Sexuality.
Profile:
Marco Wan (BA (Yale); BA/MA Law (Cambridge); LLM (Harvard); PhD (Cambridge)) is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Literary Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong.
His research focuses on the intersections between law and the humanities -- especially literature, film, and visual art -- as well as on constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2017; winner of the biennial Penny Pether Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia).
He is currently completely two projects: a volume on postcolonial and Global South approaches to law and literature, and a book which examines the legal regulation of gender and sexuality in Hong Kong through the lens of literary and cultural theory.
He has held visiting positions at the University of Bonn, the University of Cambridge, the National University of Singapore, and Yale Law School. He serves as Managing Editor of Law & Literature.