Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

It is our pleasure to welcome Marco Wan back as a faculty member of the OSI2024! Marco is Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the Programme in Law and Literary Studies. He has published widely on law and the humanities, especially law and literature and law and visual culture. Marco will convene a workshop with Leti Volpp on questions of Migration, Human Rights and Refugees.

He is the author of Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2017; winner of the biennial Penny Pether Prize of the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia). He is currently working on a monograph which takes Hong Kong as a case study for investigating the global circulation and local impact of LGBTQ+ rights.

Marco has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture”, the National University of Singapore, and Yale Law School. He serves as Managing Editor of Law & Literature.