Hello—

I am a final-year DPhil in Law (Socio-Legal Studies) Candidate at the University of Oxford. Educated in Hong Kong and England, I am trilingual (English, Cantonese, Mandarin, with a smattering of Japanese and Spanish) with legal research experience and expertise in both jurisdictions.

I have been researching and writing on topics across criminal law, medical law, and international human rights law since 2017. I’m generally interested in issues surrounding consent, autonomy, and identity in law. As a socio-legal researcher with a multi-jurisdictional background, I seek to answer the following in my work:

How does the language and practice of law make us? When subject to the law’s pronouncements on our rights and obligations, how do our selves come to be constructed by statutory and judge-made law?

These interdisciplinary research interests eventually culminated in my DPhil project which, drawing on Foucauldian theory, postmodern studies of dis/ability, and critical discourse analysis, examines judicial constructions of mental disorder and the dis/ordered subject in criminal sentencing. My other ongoing projects include doctrinal and socio-legal analyses of the mental health regime and the new national security laws in Hong Kong.

I've worked as a researcher, lecturer, tutor, and editor across academic institutions and disciplines over the years. Outside of academia, I spend much of my time reading and enjoy a wide range of fiction and non-fiction—talk to me about Woolf and Joyce, Le Guin and the Strugatskys, Ginzburg and Atwood, Ōe and Dostoevsky.

(Oh, and I suppose I take photographs too—all images used on this site are mine unless otherwise stated.)

Latest update (October 2024)