Events
CUHK LAW CCTL Seminar – ‘Hong Kong as Historical Crucible of Refugee and Migration Crises and Governance’ (Online)
25 Mar 2022
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Online (Zoom)
Christopher Szabla is a Global Academic Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law whose work focuses on international law, global history, borders, and migration. He holds degrees from Columbia University, Harvard Law School, and Cornell University, where he received his PhD. His work is published by or forthcoming from outlets including the Berkeley Journal of International Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Law and History Review, and Oxford University Press, has received funding from organizations such as the Social Science Research Council, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Council for European Studies, and awards including the Morris Cohen Prize in Legal History from the American Association of Law Libraries and the Messenger-Chalmers Prize at Cornell. He has also been a visiting fellow with the Global Migration Centre of the Graduate Institute Geneva and is a member of the Emerging Scholars Network at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales. He has worked to assist refugees in both Cairo and in New York, where he was a practicing attorney.
Language: English
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).
