Eric Y.H. Lai

Eric Y.H. Lai, PhD is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Asian Law of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. He received PhD in Law at SOAS University of London. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong (2018–19), and a visiting researcher at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London (2023). He has written more than 30 English commentaries, policy reports, and research articles on law, politics, and governance of Hong Kong and China. He is the author of Legal Resistance under Authoritarianism: The Struggle of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2025).