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A leading law professor was barred from accepting a post at a major Hong Kong university Tuesday, in an incident that has raised concerns over academic freedom in the region. Johannes Chan, a former dean of the law school at Hong Kong University (HKU), was barred by the university’s governing council from taking the post of…

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The University of Hong Kong (often abbreviated as HKU, informally known as Hong Kong University) is a public research university located in Pokfulam, Hong Kong, founded in 1911 during the British Colonial era. It is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong, originally established to compete with other Great Powers that had opened higher learning institutions in China at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, established in 1887, evolved to be the medical faculty, one of its first three faculties alongside Arts and Engineering. Academic life at the university was disrupted by the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; however, following the end of the Second World War, the university underwent expansion with the founding of further departments and faculties. Today, HKU is organised into 10 academic faculties with English as the main language of instruction. It is the first team in the world which successfully isolated the corona virus, the causative agent of SARS.