Biography

Professor Lau completed his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he served as the Executive Topics & Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and served on the staff of the Chicago Journal of International Law. At the University of Chicago, Professor Lau was named a Stonewall Scholar for excellence in his work related to sexual orientation rights and was awarded the Ignacio Martín-Baró Award for the best human rights paper by a professional or master’s degree student.

Professor Lau joined the Hofstra faculty in 2007. His research covers a range of issues concerning equality theory and antidiscrimination law. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including the California Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, the Hastings Law Journal, and the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Chicago Journal of International Law. In 2007, Professor Lau received a Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best scholarship on sexual orientation law from the previous year, for his article, “Transcending the Individualist Paradigm in Sexual Orientation Antidiscrimination Law.” Professor Lau teaches courses on criminal law, law and sexuality, and transnational law. He also co-directs Hofstra’s LGBT Rights Fellowship Program.

Prior to joining the Hofstra faculty, Professor Lau served as the 2006-2007 Harvey S. Shipley Miller Teaching Fellow at the UCLA School of Law, where he was affiliated with UCLA’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy. He also served as a visiting fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Comparative and Public Law during the spring of 2007. Outside of academia, Professor Lau has worked for the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, Children Rights, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.