Dr. Hoi Kong

Biography

Professor Hoi Kong is the inaugural holder of the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law, having assumed the position in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2024-2027) and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Program in Constitutional Studies. As a Peter Wall Scholar (2020-2021), he has made significant contributions to the fields of constitutional, administrative, municipal, and comparative law, as well as constitutional public law theory. Before joining Cornell Law School, he served as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where he also held the position of Associate Dean (Academic). He has an extensive background as an Assistant Professor of Law, cross-appointed at the School of Urban Planning at Queen’s University, and as an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Professor Kong clerked for Justices L’Heureux-Dubé and Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada. Over the years, Professor Kong has received numerous accolades for his teaching, including multiple teaching excellence awards at McGill and Queen’s University, as well as the Canadian Association of Law Teachers’ Academic Excellence Award in 2017. He co-directs Project Deliberative Governance Law with Professor Ron Levy from the Australian National University and directs a research axis at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Montreal. He serves on the editorial boards of the Review of Constitutional Studies and the American Journal of Comparative Law, and is part of the international board of distinguished advisors for the Federal Law Review.

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