Research Programmes & Areas
Insurance Law and Regulation
Convenor
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong
Programme Overview
The AIIFL has been assisting the Faculty of Law to promote the Insurance Law LLM course to local practitioners and finance professionals since 2008-09. The Insurance Law course is one of the subjects in the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law Programme covering the most important aspects of insurance law, with particular emphasis on the international practice of insurance law.
Professor Meggitt serves on both the Hong Kong Law Society’s Insurance Law Committee and the Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force. He has written on the insurance implications of the Covid 19 pandemic and wrote a chapter on insurance and pandemics for the The Global Insurance Market and Change: Emerging Technologies, Risks and Legal Challenges (Routledge, Lloyds Insurance Law Library). He has also written a chapter on marine insurance fraud for the Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (Edward Elgar). Professor Meggitt has also been conducting research on the subject of Insurtech, with the aim to publish a monograph entitled Insurtech and Insurance Law.
