Mr.
Fung is Senior Counsel of the Hong Kong Bar, specializing in commercial,
corporate and public law. He was called to the English Bar in Middle Temple
in 1975, and the Hong Kong Bar in 1977. In 1990 he became the youngest
member of the Hong Kong Bar to be appointed Queen's Counsel. Mr Fung has
the unique distinction of having served as the last Solicitor General
of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong (1994-1997) and the first Solicitor General
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic
of China (1997-1998). As Solicitor General his responsibilities included
advising on the Basic Law and Hong Kong's constitutional development upon
reversion to Chinese sovereignty, overseeing law reform in Hong Kong as
well as monitoring legal development in the PRC. He has served on a variety
of commissions and advisory boards in Hong Kong, and in mid-1999 became
the founding President of the China Law Council, a non-profit organization
devoted to judicial training for Supreme People's Court in the PRC. He
has recently been a visiting scholar at Harvard and at Yale Law Schools,
and from January 1, 2000, Mr. Fung has taken up respective appointments
as a Director of the Salzburg Seminar and as Fulbright Visiting Scholar
for Hong Kong to the United States.
