Urania Chiu 趙紫晴

'Taking a "common law" approach to national law: National security adjudication and sentencing in Hong Kong after "47 Democrats"'

—(2025) 89 Journal of Criminal Law 335

Preprint | Journal site

Review of Romanis, Germain, and Herring (eds), Diverse voices in health law and ethics (Bristol University Press 2025)

—(2025) 33 Medical Law Review fwaf019

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‘When socialist Chinese law meets common law interpretation: Mandatory sentencing and mitigation under the Hong Kong National Security Law’

—(2024) 45 Statute Law Review hmae046, with AHL Wong

Open access | Blog post

‘Overprotecting professionals from "vexatious" claims under the Hong Kong Mental Health Ordinance: The question of access to justice for persons with mental illness’

—(2021) 28 International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law 54

Open access

‘Claiming wrongful diagnosis under the Mental Health Ordinance: The impossibility of building a reasonably arguable case’

—(2020) 50 Hong Kong Law Journal 837, with D Cheung

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'12 years on: Implications of the Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance on fundamental rights and freedoms in Hong Kong'

—(2019) 49 Hong Kong Law Journal 487

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‘Compulsory treatment in the community in Hong Kong: Implications of the current law and practice on the rights of persons with mental illnesses’

—(2019) 20 Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law 60

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‘A robust restatement of the presumption of capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005: WBC (Local Authority) v Z, X, Y’

—(2017) 2 LSE Law Review 93

Open access

‘Mental capacity in Hong Kong: Inconsistencies, uncertainties, and the need for reform’

—Legal capacity, disability and human rights, with PYS Chow (Intersentia 2023)

Preprint | Publisher site

‘La capacidad mental en Hong Kong: Contradicciones, incertidumbres y la necesidad de una reforma’

—Capacidad jurídica, discapacidad y derechos humanos, with PYS Chow (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, México 2022)

Open access

‘Putting "values" back in mental capacity law—Review of Auckland, Values and disorder in mental capacity law (OUP 2024)’

—(10 Sep 2025) Frontiers for Socio-Legal Studies

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‘Why should we be able to make our own decisions? Discussing Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights’

—(24 Nov 2023) Oxford Family and Medical Law Blog

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‘Criminal responsibility under “abnormal” states of mind: Understanding mental disorder as a mitigating factor in sentencing’

—(6 Apr 2025) SLSA 2025 Annual Conference, University of Liverpool

‘Who is the mentally disordered offender? A critical discourse analysis of Hong Kong “Reasons for Sentence” judgments’

—(31 Oct 2024) Socio-Legal Discussion Group, University of Oxford (invited)

‘Critically analysing discourses around mental dis/ability in criminal law: A reflection on methodology’

—(29 May 2024) Social Sciences Equality and Diversity Research Spotlight, University of Oxford (invited)

‘At the frontiers between penal and psy discourses: Unravelling the mentally dis/abled subject in criminal sentencing using critical discourse analysis’

—(5 Apr 2023) SLSA 2023 Annual Conference, Ulster University

'Stigmatised voices in the courtroom: “Vexatious litigants”, judicial deference, and the right to access to justice in mental health jurisprudence’

—(25 Jun 2021) Postgraduate Bioethics Conference 2021, University of Liverpool

'Compulsory treatment in the community in Hong Kong: Examining mental health law and practice from a human rights perspective’

—(22 Jul 2020) Mental Diversity Law ECR Seminar, University of Nottingham