The RGC has recently announced the results of the 2019-20 funding exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS). The School of Law continued to succeed in developing a strong research culture and has obtained six law research grants which indicates that we have a high quality research environment.

The total amount of the six funded projects captured by the School of Law this year exceeded HK$2.5 million. The principal investigators are (in alphabetical order) Dr Peter CHAN, Dr Stephenson CHOW, Dr DING Chunyan, Dr LIN Yu Hsin, Dr Julia TOMASSETTI and Dr WANG Shucheng. Competition is fierce and their hard work has paid off. We congratulate them on their remarkable achievements, and look forward to their outstanding research outputs.

Colleagues who did not succeed in this round just narrowly missed out. They have made considerable efforts in submitting high quality proposals. Their work is rarely wasted as it can become the groundwork for another bid or research project.

Details of the six funded grants are as follows:

Dr Peter CHAN, “Protecting Employees from Unfair Dismissal in Chinese Courts: An Empirical Study on Serious Breach Dismissal Cases” ($424,000).

Dr Stephenson CHOW, “Self-fulfilment and Human Flourishing: a Re-examination of Human Rights Theories and their Application to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)” ($319,484).

Dr DING Chunyan, “Consumer Citizen Suits against Food Safety Violations in China” ($455,606).

Dr LIN Yu-Hsin, “The Politics of Corporate Governance in Chinese Firms” ($720,415).

Dr Julia TOMASSETTI, “The Endogeneity of Law and Business Practice: Transforming All Workers into ‘Entrepreneurs’” ($282,330).

Dr WANG Shucheng, “Restrictive Right to Religious Freedom of Protestant House Churches in China” ($696,922).