Professor Eric C. IP
Professor, HKU Faculty of Law
Co-Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
Teaching Faculty, Research Fellow, and Board Member, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
Leader of the HKU LLM Medical Ethics and Law (MEL) Specialisation
The University of Hong Kong
Planetary Health; Global Health; Public Mental Health; Population Health
DPhil (Oxon), MSt (Oxon), MBEth (Syd), LLM (Lond), LLB (NE), BSocSc (HK), FRSPH
Eric C. Ip (DPhil, University of Oxford) is a public health bioethicist and Professor at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU).
His work on the law and ethics of population health has appeared in The Lancet Public Health, The Lancet Planetary Health, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Medical Law Review, Journal of Medical Ethics, Health Economics, Policy and Law, and Public Health Ethics. He is pioneering a new paradigm of planetary health law, which helps to develop a more coherent legal regime that addresses, among other things, the implications of the climate crisis on health and human rights. He teaches global health law for the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at HKU.
Prior to joining HKU, Ip taught at University College London (UCL) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law. He has received the Young Researcher Award (2014) and Research Excellence Award (2015) from CUHK, and the Faculty Research Output Prize (2017), Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (2018), University Research Output Prize (2020), Faculty Research Output Prize (2021), and University Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2021) from HKU, in recognition of his achievements in research or teaching.
- Ip, E. C. (2023). An emergent planetary health law. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 72(4), 1047–1067. doi:10.1017/s0020589323000325
- Ip, EC (2023) Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health. Journal of Medical Ethics; online first 24 March 2023. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108759
- Ip, EC (2023) From the right to a healthy planet to the planetary right to health. The Lancet Planetary Health 7(2): E104-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00337-0
- Ip, EC, Cheung D (2022) Mapping the legal foundations of planetary mental health. Global Mental Health 9 (2022): 206–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2022.22.
- Ip, EC, Lee, SF (2021) The constitutional determinants of planetary health. The Lancet Planetary Health 5(6):E331-E332. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00078-4
- Ip, EC. (2021 [2023]). Enforcing global health law in domestic legal systems: A case study of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Tsinghua China Law Review, 14:99, 100-124. http://www.tsinghuachinalawreview.law.tsinghua.edu.cn/issues/info/10291
- Ip, EC (2021) The constitutional economics of the World Health Organization. Health Economics, Policy and Law 16(3):325-339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133120000249
- Ip, EC, Cheung, D (2020) Global mental health security—time for action. JAMA Health Forum 1(6): e200622-e200622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0622
- Ip, EC, Cheung D (2022) Mapping the legal foundations of planetary mental health. Global Mental Health 9 (2022): 206–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2022.22.
- Cheung, D, Ip, EC (2020) COVID-19 lockdowns: a public mental health ethics perspective. Asian Bioethics Review 12:503-510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-020-00144-0
- Ip, EC, Cheung, D (2020) Global mental health security—time for action. JAMA Health Forum 1(6): e200622-e200622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0622
Human rights and ethical implications of national legal responses to COVID-19
- Thomson, S, Ip, EC (2020) COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 7(1):lsaa064. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa064
- Thomson, S, Ip, EC (2020) COVID-19 emergency measures are hurting democracy globally. American Journal of Public Health 110(9):1356-1357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305816
- Cheung, D, Ip, EC (2020) COVID-19 lockdowns: a public mental health ethics perspective. Asian Bioethics Review 12:503-510. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-020-00144-0
- Lee, SF, Ip, EC (2020) Preparing for the coming transnational cancer crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Cancer Causes & Control 31:703-704. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-020-01310-3
China’s Basic Healthcare and Health Promotion Law 2019
- Ip, EC (2021) The political determinants of China’s new health constitution. Medical Law Review 29(1):3-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwaa030
- Ip, EC (2020) China’s new public health constitution: a cause for hope? The Lancet Public Health 5(4):e190-e191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30050-5
Systematic analysis of Hong Kong’s legal responses to COVID-19
- Thomson, S, Ip, EC (2021) Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China: Legal response to COVID-19. In: King, J, Ferraz, O (eds) The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to COVID-19. Oxford University Press, New York. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/law-occ19/e8.013.8
- Ip, EC (2020) Hong Kong—The unprecedented promulgation of public health emergency regulations amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Public Law 2020(2):580-582.
Ethical principles for public health and epidemiology
- Ip, EC (2021) Law, virtue, and public health powers. Public Health Ethics DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab014
- Ip, EC (2019) The virtuous epidemiologist. Journal of Public Health 41(4):864-869. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy198