Good news! This year marks the successful culmination of two of my long-term research projects, resulting in publications in peer-reviewed journals.
The first paper, 'Judicial Attitudes Towards Foreign Domestic Helpers in the Hong Kong Criminal Courts', I co-authored with Professor Julia Tomassetti of Swinburne Law School. It was published by the Asia Pacific Law Review, CityU Law School's flagship journal, in volume 32. 'Judicial Attitudes' employs content analysis to interrogate Hong Kong judges' sentencing characterisations of foreign domestic helpers / migrant domestic workers in criminal cases in which they appear, either as perpetrators or as victims of their employers' crimes. This is currently the most read article on the Asia Pacific Law Review website over the past year.
The second paper, 'Worthless Checks? Clemency, Compassionate Release, and the Finality of Life Without Parole' was published in the Northwestern University Law Review (volume 118), marking the first time I have had an article published in a flagship American law journal - a notoriously difficult task for non-American scholars. 'Worthless Checks' presents original empirical data on executive clemency covering the period 1990–2021 in order to investigate the relationship between Life Without Parole sentences and the release mechanisms of executive clemency and compassionate release in both state and federal cases in the United States. It has already been downloaded more than 300 times on the Northwestern University Law Review website.
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