Dr Eric C Ip (DPhil, University of Oxford) is Associate Professor of Law, Director of the Government and Laws Programme, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at The University of Hong Kong (HKU).

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Dr Ip is an expert in comparative public law, with applications to public health. His internationally recognised research in comparative administrative and constitutional law has been published in peer-reviewed periodicals such as The American Journal of Comparative Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, and International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is the sole author of Hybrid Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Judging Regulators (Edward Elgar, 2020), and a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (Oxford University Press, 2021).​

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His work on the law and ethics of public health has appeared in The Lancet Public Health, The Lancet Planetary Health, American Journal of Public Health, JAMA Health Forum, Global Mental Health, Medical Law Review, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Health Economics, Policy and Law, and Public Health Ethics. His innovative work on planetary health law contributes to the development of a more coherent legal paradigm that addresses the implications of the climate crisis on health and human rights.

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Dr Ip held academic positions at University College London and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he served as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Law, before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2016. He has received the Young Researcher Award (2014) and Research Excellence Award (2015) from CUHK, and the Faculty Research Output Prize (2017), Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (2018), University Research Output Prize (2020), Faculty Research Output Prize (2021), and University Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2021) from HKU, in recognition of his performance in research and teaching.