Ivan LEE
Assistant Professor
Editor (Articles)
Ivan Lee writes in legal history, imperial history, and criminal law. His work has explored how ideas of extradition, territorial sovereignty, and extraterritorial jurisdiction evolved in the British Empire, and how the empire pursued legal reform and harmonisation amid political and jurisdictional plurality. He is also interested in the imperial history of penal codification, criminal procedure, and official discourse on colonial governance and crime control. He is the author of Extradition and Empire: Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong (Cambridge University Press 2025). He has, in recent years, presented papers in Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the UK, the USA, and Vietnam.