Albert H. Y. Chen is an LL.B. and LL.M. graduate of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Harvard University, Massachusetts, respectively. He began his academic career in 1984 at HKU. He then served as Head of the Department of Law (1993–96), Dean of the Faculty of Law (1996–2002), and is currently the Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor in Constitutional Law at HKU. His areas of specialization include Hong Kong constitutional law, the study of Chinese law and Asian law from the comparative law perspective, and legal and political theory. He is the author of An Introduction to the Legal System of the People's Republic of China (2011), and co-editor of Human Rights in Asia (2006), Administrative Law and Governance in Asia (2008), Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam (2010), and Public Law in East Asia (2013). He is the editor of Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, 2014).
Andrew Harding works in the fields of Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. He commenced his academic career at the National University of Singapore (NUS) before moving to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he became Head of the Law School and Director of the Centre for South East Asian Studies. In 2012, he joined NUS, as Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies and Director of the Asian Law Institute, from the University of Victoria, Canada. He has worked extensively on constitutional law in Malaysia and Thailand, and more recently in Myanmar, and has made extensive contributions to scholarship in Asian comparative law. He is co-founding-editor of the book series Constitutional Systems of the World, a major resource for constitutional law in context, and has authored the books on Malaysia and Thailand in that series (2011, 2012). He has recently edited Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar (2016).