Professor, University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law
Professor Hoi Kong is a full professor at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. He is the inaugural holder of The Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law, which he assumed in 2018. He holds B.A., M.A. and LL.B/B.C.L. degrees from McGill University and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Professor Kong 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.
Professor Kong has contributed to public debates about Canadian constitutional law by, for instance, participating in expert roundtables for the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions and the Emergency Powers Commission.
