Hello—
I am a socio-legal academic interested in legal discourse with teaching and research expertise in England and Hong Kong. I completed my legal studies at the London School of Economics, University of Hong Kong, and University of Oxford.
I have been researching and writing on topics across criminal law, medical law, and international human rights law since 2017. I’m generally interested in issues surrounding consent, autonomy, and identity in law. As a socio-legal researcher with a multi-jurisdictional background, I seek to answer the following in my work:
How does the language and practice of law make us? When subject to the law’s pronouncements on our rights and obligations, how do our selves come to be constructed by statutory and judge-made law?
These interdisciplinary research interests eventually culminated in my doctoral thesis which, drawing on Foucauldian theory, postmodern studies of dis/ability, and critical discourse analysis, examines judicial constructions of mental disorder and the dis/ordered subject in criminal sentencing. My other ongoing projects include doctrinal and socio-legal analyses of the mental health regime and national security legislation in Hong Kong.
Outside of academia, I spend much of my time reading and enjoy a wide range of fiction and non-fiction—talk to me about Woolf and Joyce, Le Guin and the Strugatskys, Ginzburg and Atwood, Ōe and Dostoevsky.
(Oh, and I suppose I take photographs too—all images used on this site are mine unless otherwise stated.)
Last updated: 25 Nov 2025