Dr. Celeste Lo is a Solicitor (Hong Kong), Greater Bay Area Lawyer (PRC), and is currently working as Postdoc Fellow at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws, Hong Kong University), a Master of Arts in Law (University of Bristol) and a PhD in Constitutional Law (Tsinghua University). Her current research interests include constitutional law and national security law, both in the context of Hong Kong and international law. She is bilingually fluent in English and Chinese and has published extensively in both languages. Her latest major publication includes The Hong Kong Judicial System (3rd edition).
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HKSAR v Lai Chee Ying: The Good, The Bad and The Uncertain
Introduction
On 15 December 2025, the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong handed down a monumental 855-page judgment in the case of HKSAR v Lai Chee Ying [2025] HKCFI 6291 ("Jimmy Lai Judgment”). While the vast ...
Overlapping Sabotage Provisions in Hong Kong’s National Security Laws: Risks and Implications on Prosecution Decisions
In response to the widespread public unrests that engulfed Hong Kong in 2019, the Central Authorities of the PRC enacted the Hong Kong National Security Law (“HKNSL”) to explicitly criminalise sabotage (Articles 24(1)(3) and (4)), ...
National Security Laws from a Common Law Perspective: Insights from the Recent Triumph of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the “Alliance”) emerged as one of the pioneering pro-democracy entities in Hong Kong, founded amidst the fervour of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in ...
