Karen Kong is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of the LLM in Human Rights Programme of the Faculty. She obtained her BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 2002. She then completed her PCLL at the University of Hong Kong in 2003 and her LLM at Cambridge University in 2004. She is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong and in England and Wales.

Karen teaches and writes mainly in the fields of economic, social and cultural rights and administrative law. Her recent publications include “Adjudicating Social Welfare Rights in Hong Kong” International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming), “Public Interest Litigation in Hong Kong: A New Hope for Social Transformation?” 28(3) Civil Justice Quarterly (2009), and “The Right to Food for All: A Right-based Approach to Hunger and Social Inequality" 32(3) Suffolk Transnational Law Review (2009).