Congratulations to Three Faculty Members awarded General Research Fund (GRF)
The total amount of the three funded projects captured by the School of Law this year amounted to more than HK$1.7 million. The principal investigators are (in alphabetical order of surnames) Prof Julien CHAISSE, Prof CHAN Chi Hin Peter and Prof LI Enshen. The School appreciates the hard work of each colleague that goes into preparing the grant applications. From the pool of strong applications in this competitive process, three proposals particularly stood out.
Details of the three funded grants are as follows:
Prof Julien CHAISSE, “The Black Box of Settlement Offers: Uncovering the Hidden Dynamics of Investor-State Dispute Settlement” ($727,000)
Prof CHAN Chi Hin Peter, “Judicial Expansion of Criminality for Stability: State Control of Rural Resistance to Land Acquisition in China” ($490,000)
Prof LI Enshen, “Extraterritoriality of Chinese Criminal Jurisdiction: A Socio-legal Study” ($516,976)
研究資助局最近公佈了 2024-25 年度「優配研究金」的資助名單。香港城市大學法律學院三位教授成功獲得資助。學院一直秉持鼓勵性及多元的研究風氣。是次資助申請的成功為學院錦上添花。
三個計劃共取得超過一百七十百萬港元資助。三名獲資助的學者包括（按英文姓氏順序）：夏竹立教授、陳志軒教授及李恩深教授。法律學院重視各個同事於申請過程中所付出的努力。儘管競爭激烈，他們出色的計劃書仍然於眾多申請中脫穎而出。
三項獲資助的研究項目詳情如下：
夏竹立教授的研究項目為「和解提議的黑匣子：揭示投資者與國家爭端解決的隱藏動態」， 獲資助 $727,000。
陳志軒教授的研究項目為「擴張刑事責任以維護社會秩序：以中國農村土地徵收為例」， 獲資助$490,000。
李恩深教授的研究項目為「中國刑法的治外法權：基於法社會學的研究」， 獲資助 $ 516,976。