Karen Man Yee Lee
La Trobe University
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Affiliations
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Biography
Karen's research spans law and its dynamics with culture, politics, society, and human rights. Her publications cover human rights, rule of law and democratization, rule of law culture, legal mobilization, and more recently, migration. One of her recent collaborative projects investigate how socio-political factors affect Hong Kong people's decision to emigrate (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00323-y).
Research Focus
- To what extent does political orientation affect Hong Kong people's trust in the courts?
- Do socio-political factors affect Hong Kong people's decision to emigrate?
GFI Writings
Karen Man Yee Lee
La Trobe University
Courage and Justice - from Russia to Afghanistan to Hong Kong
Courage and justice, two of the cardinal virtues that Prof Herdt identified, can be used to describe those ordinary citizens and community leaders who risked their individual liberty in defending political liberalism in many authoritarian or transitional societies. These two virtues are perhaps…
Karen Man Yee Lee
La Trobe University
In Hong Kong, a Sense of Righteousness Drives Lawyers' Political Activism
I like the connection between “righteousness” and a flourishing life. The idea of “righteousness” has permeated my research on Hong Kong, from the inquiries of universal human rights, the motivations behind lawyers’ political activism, and the basis of public trust in courts. It takes on particular …
Karen Man Yee Lee
La Trobe University
Hong Kong's Democracy Crisis Creates a Justice Crisis
The idea of justice underlies the study of law. As the preview identifies two fundamental forms of justice, first-order and second-order, there are also two essential notions of justice, procedural and substantial. My research on lawyers’ professional identity reveals lawyers’ general tendency…