Professor, CUHK Law | Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law | Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal | Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers | Scot in Hong Kong, occasionally Yorkshire.
Jen Hendry (文林言)
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This award is an unexpected honour - one for which I am joining pretty exalted company in terms of previous winners. Buy the book here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Statehood as Political Community
Congrats to Alex Green's "Statehood as Political Community", which has been awarded the 2026 International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR Prize) for the Best Book on Legal or Social Philosophy. Published in the ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory series.
Opened my old institutional email account for the first time in a while and I have a load of increasingly frantic review requests from different journals. Journal review platforms need to have a better system for accommodating/noting out-of-office replies / changes of contact info.
Our book, Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law has just come out in paperback and is staggeringly cheap! Buy it now and help fund my future retirement.
American Society of International Law
Privileged to attend the official launch of the Asian Legal History Association at CUHK Faculty of Law this morning, and to hear Prof Renisa Mawani deliver the inaugural conference’s keynote lecture this afternoon. Congratulations to all involved in such a successful event.
Such a pleasure for @glexareen.bsky.social & me to participate in the USQ-hosted workshop ‘Deliberation & Contestation in Multinational Democracies’ and present (the latest instalment of) our work on the limits of legal pluralism. Many thanks to the participants for the engagement & feedback.
This is wonderful but actually fuck Reform for pulling this outdated discriminatory shit in the first place
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Thoughtful review of "Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives", Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.) (by Stewart Field, Cardiff)
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Jen Hendry (文林言)
Alex Green (文浩航)
Jen Hendry (文林言)
Jen Hendry (文林言)
Jen Hendry (文林言)
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