Luke Marsh
Associate Professor of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Luke Marsh currently serves as Associate Director of the Centre for Rights & Justice and is Co-Director of the Clinic for Public Interest Advocacy. He teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and opinion writing (LLB and PCLL), serves as supervisor to the Faculty's Clinic Programme (LLB, JD, LLM) and instructs students on Trial Advocacy (PCLL). Luke has practised as a criminal barrister at one of the UK's leading Chambers, representing clients in the Youth Court, Magistrates Court and Crown Court. He received the prestigious Baron Dr. Ver Heyden De Lancey Prize for the best performance by a Middle Temple member in the Bar Examinations. Before he joined the academic community, Luke was an Erasmus Scholar, receiving a grant to work at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Whilst there he was legal assistant to trial attorneys tasked with the indictment of Bosnian Genocide suspect, Radovan Karadzic. He has taken on cases for Justice Centre Hong Kong (formerly Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre) providing legal representation to asylum seekers appearing before the UNHCR. His most recent scholarly work includes a detailed examination of the erosion of the adversarial process in the English criminal justice system. Luke was selected for the Faculty's inaugural Research in Teaching & Learning Award (2015), in recognition of his research on the advancement of the teaching and learning experience.