Congratulations to Professors Anatole Boute, Kevin Cheng and Hao Zhang on receiving the following research awards from the University for their research outputs/project.

CUHK Outstanding Research Impact Award 2025-26

Professor Kevin Cheng:

• “Reforming Hong Kong’s Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Trafficking through Empirical Legal Research”

CUHK Research Excellence Award 2025-26

Professor Anatole Boute:

• Energy Dependence and Supply Security: Energy Law in the New Geopolitical Reality (Oxford University Press, November 2023).
• “Accounting for Carbon Pricing in Third Countries Under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism” (2024) 23(2) World Trade Review 169-189.
• “Energy Justice in Times of Crisis: Protection of Consumers and Market-based Renewable Energy Investments” (2023) 26 Journal of International Economic Law 770-785.

CUHK Young Researcher Award 2025

Professor Hao Zhang:

• In Pursuit of Carbon Neutrality: Energy Law and Regulation in China (Cambridge University Press, December 2023)