Hoi Kong

Professor Hoi Kong is a full professor and the inaugural holder of The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law, which he assumed in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2024-2027), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Program on Constitutional Studies, a Peter Wall Scholar (2020-2021) and Visiting Professor at the Cornell Law School. He researches and teaches in the areas of constitutional, administrative, municipal and comparative law, and constitutional and public law theory.

Prior to joining the Allard School of Law, Professor Kong was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where he served a term as Associate Dean (Academic). He was previously an Assistant Professor of Law, cross-appointed with the School of Urban Planning at Queen’s University, and an Associate-in-Law at the Columbia Law School. Professor Kong clerked for Justice L’Heureux-Dubé and Justice Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Over the years, Professor Kong has received a number of accolades for his teaching. These include the Queen’s University Law Students’ Society Teaching Excellence Award; the John W. Durnford Award for Teaching Excellence, awarded by McGill’s Law Students’ Association; McGill University’s Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching; the Allard School of Law’s George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence; and the University of British Columbia’s Killam Teaching Prize.

In 2017, he received the Canadian Association of Law Teachers’ Academic Excellence Award, for outstanding contributions to teaching and research in law.

Professor Kong co-directs with Professor Ron Levy (the Australian National University) the Project on Deliberative Governance and Law. He also directs a research axis at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal and is on the editorial boards of the Review of Constitutional Studies and American Journal of Comparative Law, as well as the international board of distinguished advisors for the Federal Law Review.

Research and Publications

To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my publications on the following sites: 

• Allard Research Commons / bepress Legal Repository Search (Open source publications only)
• Allard Research Portal (Comprehensive list of publications)
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
• HeinOnline

• Public Law
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

Books

• Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives(University of Toronto Press, 2022) (co-editor with Tanya Monforte).
• Chromatic: Ten Meditations on Crisis in Arts and Letters (Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2021) (co-author with Purang Abolmaesumi, Jennifer Black, Carrie Jenkins, M.V. Ramana, Steven Reynolds, Michelle Stack, Sheila Teves and Y-Dang Troeung.
• Deliberative Peace Referendums (Oxford University Press, 2021) (co-author with Ron Levy and Ian O’Flynn).
• The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (co-editor with Ron Levy, Graeme Orr and Jeff King).

Articles and Chapters

​​​​​​​Publications listed on the Allard Research Portal.