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Professor Eric Ip

Affiliation Professor, Faculty of Law
Research Areas Public Health Law and Ethics; Global Health Law and Ethics; Comparative Administrative Law; Comparative Constitutional Law
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  1. Ip, EC. Planetary Health Law and Governance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2026 forthcoming. 2026
  2. Ip, EC. The jurisprudence of change: the legal cosmology of the Yijing in Neo-Confucian perspective. In: Chen AHY, Yu X, eds. Research Handbook on Chinese Legal Thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2026 2026
  3. Ip, EC. Healthcare regulation in China. In: Sitaraman G, Ricks M, McGaughey E, eds. Cambridge Handbook on Networks, Platforms and Utilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026 forthcoming. 2026
  4. Ni MY, Leung CMC, Wan TTW, Campion J, Gill N, Galea S, Ip EC.… Read more 2026
  5. Ip, EC. Law and Justice in Hong Kong: Principles of the Legal System (5th edn). Hong Kong: Sweet & Maxwell, 2025. 2025
  6. Ip EC. Planetary health ethics: A Confucian alternative. The Journal of Climate Change and Health 2025; 22:2667-2782.… Read more 2025
  7. Ip, EC. The Law and Regulation of Public Health: Hong Kong in Global Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2024. 2024
  8. Ip EC. Digital planetary health needs ethical guidance. The Lancet Planetary Health 2024; 8(8): e526-e527. DOI: 2024
  9. Villalta Puig, G, Ip, EC. The Freest Market in the World: The Constitutional Logic of Economic Liberty in Hong Kong. London: Routledge, 2023. 2023
  10. Ip, EC. An emergent planetary health law. International & Comparative Law Quarterly 2023; 72(4): 1047-67. DOI: 2023
  11. Ip EC. Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health. Journal of Medical Ethics 2023; 49: 833-7. DOI:  2023
  12. Ip EC. From the right to a healthy planet to the planetary right to health. The Lancet Planetary Health 2023; 7(2): E104-5.… Read more 2023
  13. Kwok, KHF, Ip, EC, Lee, SF. The conundrums of the reasonable patient standard in English medical law. BMC Medical Ethics 2023; 24: 15.… Read more 2023
  14. Ip, EC. Behavioral Public Choice Economics and the Law. Singapore: Springer, 2022. 2022
  15. Ip, EC. Administrative Justice in Authoritarian States. In: Tomlinson, T, Thomas, R, Hertogh M, Kirkham R, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice.… Read more 2022
  16. Ip, EC, Cheung D. Mapping the legal foundations of planetary mental health. Global Mental Health 2022; 9: 206-10. DOI: 2022
  17. Thomson, S, Ip, EC, Lee, S. International comparisons of COVID-19 case and mortality data and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: A plea for… Read more 2022
  18. Ip, EC. The natural law ethics of public health lockdowns. Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 2022; 36(1): 101-24. 2022
  19. Cane, P, Hofmann, HCH, Ip, EC, Lindseth, P, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021. 2021
  20. Thomson, S, Ip, EC. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China: Legal Response to Covid-19. In: King, J, Ferraz, O, eds.… Read more 2021
  21. Ip, EC. Parliamentary Regimes. In: Cane, P, Hofmann, HCH, Ip, EC, Lindseth, P, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law.… Read more 2021
  22. Ip, EC, Lee SF. The constitutional determinants of planetary health. The Lancet Planetary Health 2021; 5(6): E331-2.… Read more 2021
  23. Ip, EC. Law, virtue, and public health powers. Public Health Ethics 2021; 14(2): 148-60. DOI:  2021
  24. Ip, EC. The constitutional economics of the World Health Organization. Health Economics, Policy and Law 2021; 16(3): 325-39.… Read more 2021
  25. Ip, EC. The political determinants of China’s new health constitution. Medical Law Review 2021; 29(1): 3-23. DOI:  2021
  26. Ip, EC. Judging Regulators: The Political Economy of Anglo-American Administrative Law. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2020. 2020
  27. Ip, EC. Comparative Constitutional Politics in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.… Read more 2020
  28. Thomson, S, Ip, EC. COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 2020; 7(1): lsaa064.… Read more 2020
  29. Cheung, D, Ip, EC. COVID-19 lockdowns: a public mental health ethics perspective. Asian Bioethics Review 2020; 12: 503-10.… Read more 2020
  30. Thomson, S, Ip, EC. COVID-19 emergency measures are hurting democracy globally. American Journal of Public Health 2020; 110(9): 1356-7.… Read more 2020
  31. Ip, EC, Cheung, D. Global mental health security—time for action. JAMA Health Forum 2020; 1(6): e200622. DOI:  2020
  32. Ip, EC. Hong Kong—The unprecedented promulgation of public health emergency regulations amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Public Law 2020; 2020(2): 580-2. 2020
  33. Lee, SF, Ip, EC. Preparing for the coming transnational cancer crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Cancer Causes & Control 2020; 31: 703-4.… Read more 2020
  34. Ip, EC. China’s new public health constitution: a cause for hope? The Lancet Public Health 2020; 5(4): e190-1. DOI:  2020
  35. Ip, EC. Hybrid Constitutionalism: The Politics of Constitutional Review in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 2019
  36. Lee, E, Ip, EC. Judicial diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific: theory and evidence from the Singapore-initiated transnational judicial insolvency network.… Read more 2019
  37. Ip, EC. Hong Kong—constitutional limits on emergency powers amid the 2019 crisis. Public Law 2020; 2020(1): 182-5. 2019
  38. Ip, EC. Hong Kong—Mainland Chinese enclave in highspeed railway station held constitutional, Leung Chung Hang Sixtus v President of the Legislative Council [2019] 1 HKLRD 292. Public Law 2019; 2019(4) 2019
  39. Ip, EC. The virtuous epidemiologist. Journal of Public Health 2019; 41(4): 864-9. DOI:  2019
  40. Ip, EC. Anorexia nervosa, advance directives, and the law: a British perspective. Bioethics 2019; 33(8): 931-6. DOI:  2019
  41. Ip, EC, Yap PJ. Substantive review of administrative discretion in Hong Kong: divergence between judicial rhetoric and practice.… Read more 2019
  42. Ip, EC, Kwok, KHF. Judicial control of local protectionism in China: antitrust enforcement against administrative monopoly on the Supreme People’s Court.… Read more 2017
  43. Ip, EC. Debiasing regulators: the behavioral economics of US administrative law. Common Law World Review 2017; 46(3): 171-97.… Read more 2017
  44. Ip, EC. Interpreting interpretations: a methodology for the judicial enforcement of legislative interpretations of the Hong Kong Basic Law. Public Law 2017; 2017(4): 552-62. 2017
  45. Ip, EC. Legal Profession and Representation. In: Chui WH, Lo, TW, eds. Understanding Criminal Justice in Hong Kong (2nd edn). New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. 2016
  46. Ip, EC. Comparative subnational foreign relations law in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions.… Read more 2016
  47. Ip, EC. The politics of constitutional common law in Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty. Washington International Law Journal 2016; 25(3): 565-95. 2016
  48. Partlett, WE, Ip, EC. Is socialist law really dead? New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 2016; 48: 463-511. 2016
  49. Ip, EC. Constitutional conflict in Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 2016; 8(1): 75-99.… Read more 2016
  50. Ip, EC. Prototype constitutional supervision in China: the lessons of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee. Asian Journal of Comparative Law 2015; 10(2): 323-42.… Read more 2015