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Dr. Ka Lok Yip (PhD)
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- Office locationMinaretein
Biography
Dr. Ka Lok Yip holds an interdisciplinary PhD in international law and international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She has published extensively on issues related to armed conflicts and monitors armed conflicts in the region closely. She is also admitted to the practice of law in England and Wales and Hong Kong.
Research Interests
- Laws Related to Armed Conflicts
- Social Theories
- Legal Theories
Experience
Assistant Professor
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2021 - PresentLecturer
University of Hong Kong
2018 - Present
Education
PhD
International Law and International Relations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
BCL
Law, University of Oxford
LLB
Law, King's College London
Selected Publications
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The Use of Force against Individuals in War under International Law
A Social Ontological Approach (Oxford University Press, 2022)
2022 -
Skewed Vision
Human Rights in War through the Eyes in Peace, in 'Human Rights at Risk' (Rutgers University Press, 2022)
2022 -
Problematizing the Competence of International Human Rights Mechanisms over International Humanitarian Law in 'The Role of Human Rights Mechanisms in Implementing International Humanitarian Law' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
2022 -
The Missing Elephant in the Room
The Jurisdiction of International Human Rights Tribunals over International Humanitarian Law’ – Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Issue 3, 2020)
2020 -
Separation between jus ad bellum and jus in bello as Insulation of Results, not Scopes, of Application’
The Military Law and Law of War Review (Issue 1, 2020)
2020 -
Extracting Natural Resources in Occupied Territories
The Conjunction between jus in bello, jus ad bellum and Human Rights Law’ in ‘The International Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories’ (Routledge, 2020)
2020 -
What is Human? Reading Social Idealism against the Reality of Blackman and Azaria’
German Yearbook of International Law
2018 -
What Does the Jurisdictional Hurdle under IHRL Mean for the Relationship between IHRL and IHL?
Journal of Human Rights and International Legal Discourse, Special Issue on the Relationship between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law (Issue 1, 2018)
2018 -
To Kill or Not to Kill as a Social Question’ in ‘International Humanitarian Law and Justice: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’, Routledge
2018 -
The ICRC’s interpretive guidance on the notion of direct participation in hostilities– sociological and democratic legitimacy in domestic legal orders
Transnational Legal Theory (Issue 8.2, 2017)
2017 -
The Weakest Link – from Non-derogation to Non-existence of Human Rights
Human Rights Law Review (Issue 4, 2017)
2017
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