Professor Eric C. Ip
Eric C. Ip is a Professor in the Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong, Co-Director of its Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Law Journal. He specialises in comparative constitutional and administrative law, and in public health law and ethics. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and taught at University College London and at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law, before joining The University of Hong Kong.
He is the author of Hybrid Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Judging Regulators (Edward Elgar, 2020), Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law (Springer, 2022), The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Global Perspectives on Hong Kong (Routledge, 2024) and Law and Justice in Hong Kong: Principles of the Legal System (5th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2025); co-author of The Freest Market in the World (Routledge, 2023); and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (Oxford University Press, 2021). Planetary Health Law and Governance is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. His articles appear in journals including the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, The Lancet Public Health, The Lancet Psychiatry, the American Journal of Public Health and the Medical Law Review.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, was a member of the Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong and Founding Convenor in Constitutional Law for the Overseas Lawyers Qualification Examination, and in 2025 was a Herbert Smith Freehills Global Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. His current funded research, 'Judging the Automated State', concerns judicial oversight of automated government decision-making. He received the University Outstanding Young Researcher Award of The University of Hong Kong in 2021.