CALGCentre for Administrative Law and Governance
Research

Recent work by Fellows of the Centre.

Books, articles and reports by the Director and Fellows.

Publications

In order of publication

2026
Planetary Health Law and Governance
Eric C. Ip. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
2026
Harnessing the Power of Constitutional Rights and Legal Frameworks to Scale Up Public Mental Health Implementation
Eric C. Ip. The Lancet Psychiatry
2025
Law and Justice in Hong Kong: Principles of the Legal System (5th ed)
Eric C. Ip. Sweet & Maxwell
2025
Control of Government Action - Cases, Text and Commentary (7th ed)
Matthew Groves. Creyke, Groves, McMillan and Smyth - LexisNexis
2025
Administrative Law: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Thomson. Oxford University Press
2025
Automation in Governance: Theory, Problems and Practice
Matthew Groves. Hart Publishing - co-edited with Y. Ng
2024
The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Hong Kong in Global Perspective
Eric C. Ip. Routledge
2024
Administrative Tribunals in the Common Law World
Stephen Thomson, Matthew Groves and G. Weeks. Hart Publishing
2024
Into the Quagmire: Social Media as Regulators and the Limits of Judicial Review
Stephen Thomson. Public Law
2023
An Emergent Planetary Health Law
Eric C. Ip. International & Comparative Law Quarterly
2023
The Freest Market in the World: The Constitutional Logic of Economic Liberty in Hong Kong
Eric C. Ip and G. Villalta Puig. Routledge
2023
Administrative Law (2nd Reissue), The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia
Stephen Thomson and Denis Edwards. LexisNexis
2023
Administrative Law as a Determinant of Public Health
Stephen Thomson. Canadian Journal of Public Health
2023
The Extension of Sovereign Rights Beyond 200 Nautical Miles
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea - with Ø. Jensen
2023
Maritime Boundary Delimitation in the Polar Regions
Bjarni Már Magnússon. The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law - with S. Örnadóttir
2022
Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law
Eric C. Ip. Springer
2022
Judicial Review of Administrative Action and Government Liability (7th ed)
Matthew Groves. Aronson, Groves and Weeks - Thomson Reuters
2022
Ombudsmen as Courts
Stephen Thomson. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
2022
Mask Mandates for Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Human Rights Perspective
Stephen Thomson. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
2021
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law
P. Cane, H.C.H. Hofmann, Eric C. Ip and P. Lindseth (eds). Oxford University Press
2021
The Political Determinants of China's New Health Constitution
Eric C. Ip. Medical Law Review
2021
Evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee - COVID-19 and the Use and Scrutiny of Emergency Powers
Stephen Thomson. Analysis and recommendations adopted in the Committee's report
2020–
Hong Kong SAR Rapporteur - The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to COVID-19
Stephen Thomson. University College London · King's College London · Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
2020
Judging Regulators: The Political Economy of Anglo-American Administrative Law
Eric C. Ip. Edward Elgar
2020
Hong Kong: The Unprecedented Promulgation of Public Health Emergency Regulations amid the COVID-19 Outbreak
Eric C. Ip. Public Law
2020
Geopolitics and International Law in the Arctic
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security - with C. H. Norchi
2020
COVID-19 Emergency Measures and the Impending Authoritarian Pandemic
Stephen Thomson and Eric C. Ip. Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2020
COVID-19 Emergency Measures are Hurting Democracy Globally
Stephen Thomson and Eric C. Ip. American Journal of Public Health
2020
Letterhead Bias and the Demographics of Elite Journal Publications
Stephen Thomson. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology
2019
Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Politics of Constitutional Review in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions
Eric C. Ip. Cambridge University Press
2019
Substantive Review of Administrative Discretion in Hong Kong: Divergence between Judicial Rhetoric and Practice
Eric C. Ip and P.J. Yap. Chinese Journal of Comparative Law
2019
China's Arctic Policy White Paper and its Influence on the Future of Arctic Legal Developments
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic - with E. T. Nielsson
2019
Dare to Diverge: Time for Administrative Law in Hong Kong to Stand on its Own Two Feet
Stephen Thomson. Chinese Journal of Comparative Law
2018
Administrative Law in Hong Kong
Stephen Thomson. Cambridge University Press
2018
The New Constitutional Disorder: The Unlawful Application of Mainland Chinese Law to Hong Kong
Stephen Thomson. Texas International Law Journal
2017
Interpreting Interpretations: A Methodology for the Judicial Enforcement of Legislative Interpretations of the Hong Kong Basic Law
Eric C. Ip. Public Law
2017
Can the United States Establish the Outer Limits of its Extended Continental Shelf Under International Law?
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Ocean Development & International Law
2017
Judicial Review and Public Law: Challenging the Preconceptions of a Troubled Taxonomy
Stephen Thomson. Melbourne University Law Review
2017
The Public Sector Ombudsman in Greater China: Four 'Chinese' Models of Administrative Supervision
Stephen Thomson. University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
2016–26
Editor, Australian Journal of Administrative Law
Matthew Groves. Thomson Reuters
2015
The Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles: Delineation and Dispute Settlement
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Brill Nijhoff
2015
The Nobile Officium: The Extraordinary Equitable Jurisdiction of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Stephen Thomson. Avizandum / Edinburgh University Press
2014
Taking a 'Hard Look' at 'Irrationality': Substantive Review of Administrative Discretion in the US and UK Supreme Courts
Eric C. Ip. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
2014
The Democratic Foundations of Judicial Review under Authoritarianism: Theory and Evidence from Hong Kong
Eric C. Ip. International Journal of Constitutional Law
2014
The Rejection of a Theoretical Beauty: The Foot of the Continental Slope in Maritime Boundary Delimitations Beyond 200 Nautical Miles
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Ocean Development & International Law
2013
The Evolution of Constitutional Adjudication in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions: Theory and Evidence
Eric C. Ip. American Journal of Comparative Law
2013
Outer Continental Shelf Boundary Agreements
Bjarni Már Magnússon. International & Comparative Law Quarterly
2013
Is there a Temporal Relationship Between the Delineation and the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles?
Bjarni Már Magnússon. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
2013
Dispute Settlement and the Establishment of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles
Bjarni Már Magnússon. Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh