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Research Interests

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Chinese Law, Comparative Legal Studies, Family Law.

Additional Professional Information

  • Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.
     
  • Senior Research Fellow, China Law Programme, HKIAPS, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
     
  • Emeritus Professor of Law and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS  (University of London).
     
  • Consulting Editor of Amicus Curiae, joint Editor of the Journal of Comparative Law, and co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press book series, Comparative Legal Studies, Society and Justice. 

Other Information

Link: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/michael-palmer 

Publications

Recent Publications

(ed, with Xi Chao and Zhou Ling) ‘Issues in Administrative Justice’. Special Issues of the Journal of Comparative Law, 17-2 (Part One, 2022), & 18:2 (Part Two, 2023)

(ed. with T Bodenhorn & JP Burns) ‘Higher Education in Greater China’. China Quarterly Special Issue [no. 244] (2020)

(ed. with He Xin) ‘China’s Family Law in Action’. Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Law, 15-2, pp. 1-249 (2020)

(ed. with) Maria-Federica Moscati, and Marian Roberts Comparative Dispute Resolution Handbook. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020.

Palmer, Michael and Simon Roberts. Dispute Processes: ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision Making. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 

(ed.  with FU Hualing & ZHANG Xianchu) Transparency Challenges Facing China, London: Wildy Simmonds and Hill, 2019

(ed. with FU Hualing) Mediation in Contemporary China: Continuity and Change, London: Wildy Simmonds and Hill, 2017