Johannes Chan

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Johannes Chan Man-mun (陳文敏) SC (Hon) is an honorary professor at University College London, former chair and professor of law (1998–2021) and former dean of the faculty of law (2002–2014) at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in human rights, constitutional and administrative law, and is the first and only academic silk ever appointed in Hong Kong. He is credited with transforming the University's Faculty of Law into one of the leading law schools in the world during his tenure as Dean. He was selected by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee as a Prestigious Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences for his sustained excellence in scholarship. He has held visiting professorships at many leading universities, including the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Zurich. He retired from the University of Hong Kong in 2021. In February 2009, he was banned from entering Macau to give a public lecture, which raised strong responses from both pan-democracy and pro-Beijing parties. In 2015, he was unanimously recommended by a search committee to become the pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, but the recommendation was, exceptionally, not accepted by the university council; the decision was widely criticized as an infringement on academic freedom, believed to have been prompted by Chan's outspoken and liberal political stance. Since the enactment of the National Security Law in Hong Kong in 2020, he has been publicly condemned by the Hong Kong government for his criticisms of legal affairs in the city.