Contact details
- Name:
- Dr Mei Ning Yan
- Qualifications:
- BA in Geography (The University of Hong Kong, 1979), Certificate in Education (The University of Hong Kong, 1981), LLB (University of London, external program, 1993), LLM in Human Rights, Emergency Law and Discriminations (Queen’s University Belfast, 1995), PhD in Law (Essex, 1998)
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Associate Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 14-Oct-2024
- Institute:
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
- Home institution:
- Queens University, Belfast
- Email address:
- m.yan@qub.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ials.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-mei-ning-yan
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Law
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Dr. Yan specializes in media and information law. Her PhD thesis was on the protection of freedom of information and the regulation of transfrontier television in western Europe and mainland China. For some 30 years, she has written widely on defamation law, privacy law, obscenity law, and media regulation and policy of mainland China and Hong Kong, often with comparative perspectives.