Professor Trevor T. W. WAN
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
Co-Director, Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws) and Bachelor of Laws Programme
The University of Hong Kong
LL.M. (Harvard), LL.B. (HKU), B.Soc.Sc. (Government and Laws) (HKU)
Trevor T. W. Wan is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he serves as Co-Director of the Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws) and Bachelor of Laws dual degree programme.
Trevor’s scholarship interrogates the social foundations of legal medicine. His research employs an interdisciplinary framework, integrating comparative law, political science, and socio-legal methodologies, to develop innovative paradigms for analysing coroner’s inquests and the constitutional dimensions of mental health and happiness. Trevor’s work has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals across law and medicine, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, German Law Journal, Hong Kong Medical Journal, and the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics Blog.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Trevor holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he was the Hong Kong Jockey Club Fellow, and an LL.B. and a B.Soc.Sc. in Government and Laws from HKU, both with First Class Honours. He is a member of the International Society of Public Law and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He currently serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Hong Kong Law Journal, the flagship faculty journal of HKU Law.
Wan, Trevor T. W. “Globetrotting Advocates: Foreign Barristers in Hong Kong Courts.” American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming, 2025).
Wan, Trevor T. W. “In the Name of Public Interest: Challenging the Coroner’s Failure to Hold a Death Inquest in Hong Kong.” Hong Kong Law Journal 55, no. 1 (2025): 11–27.
Wan, Trevor T. W. “Remoulding Coroner’s Inquests in Hong Kong through the Right to Life.” Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 25, no. 2 (2024): 191–214. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718158-25020004.
Wan, Trevor T. W. “Constitutionalization of Happiness: A Global and Comparative Inquiry.” German Law Journal 24, no. 7 (2023): 1209–1236. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.84.
Wan, Trevor T. W., and Alec Stone Sweet. “Global Constitutionalism and the People’s Republic of China: Dignity as the ‘Fundamental Basis’ of the Legal System?” International Journal of Constitutional Law 21, no. 2 (2023): 433–460. https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moad034.
Wan, Trevor T. W., and Eric C. Ip. “The Right to Pursue Happiness on a Healthy Planet is a Fundamental Right.” BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, June 17, 2022. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/06/17/the-right-to-pursue-happiness-on-a-healthy-planet-is-a-fundamental-right/.
Wan, Trevor T. W., and Victor W. T. Li. “COVID-19 Control and Preventive Measures: A Medico-Legal Analysis.” Hong Kong Medical Journal 27, no. 3 (2021): 225–226. https://doi.org/10.12809/hkmj209047.