Professor Simon Young is Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong, where he has taught criminal law and evidence law for almost 18 years.

As a practicing barrister with Parkside Chambers, he specialises in criminal law and public law cases. He is General Editor of Archbold Hong Kong and his co-edited books include Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age (Hart 2017), The Integrity of Criminal Process (Hart 2016), Reforming Law Reform (HKU Press 2014), Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal (CUP 2014), and Civil Forfeiture of Criminal Property (Edward Elgar 2009). Since 2013, he has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law (Brill).