Chau BSocSc

Assistant Professor
law
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Biography

Peter Chau, Assistant Professor, joined the Faculty in August 2011. Having graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a double degree in government and laws, he went to Oxford for postgraduate studies where he obtained his MPhil (supervised by Daniel McDermott and John Tasioulas) and DPhil (supervised by John Gardner and Daniel McDermott).

Research Intrest

Criminal Law, Equity and Trusts, and Legal Theory.

List of Publications
“Temptations, Social Deprivation, and Punishment”
“Poverty, Distributive Justice, and Punishment”
“Duff on the Legitimacy of the Punishment of Socially Deprived Offenders”
“Excluding Integrity? Revisiting Non-consequentialist Justifications for Exclusion of Improperly Obtained Evidence in Criminal Trials”
“Bennett‘s Expressive Justification of Punishment”
“Loss-Based Retributive Justifications of Punishment”