Lindsay Ernst

Lindsay Ernst

Professor of Law at University of Hong Kong

Lindsay Ernst is a US-trained lawyer and educator who specializes in developing inter-disciplinary experiential education opportunities focused on advancing social justice and human rights. Currently, Lindsay identifies and develops human rights-based experiential learning opportunities with the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong.  She also teaches courses in legal research and writing, human rights research and methodology, and international human rights advocacy and practice.  

Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong in 2012, Lindsay was the Head of Clinical Programmes at the Justice Centre Hong Kong (formerly the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre) where she designed and launched the Refugee Legal Assistance Clinic in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Brooklyn Law School and the University of New South Wales.  Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2007, Lindsay was a Skadden Fellow with the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York City, and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.  She has also served as a law clerk with the King’s County Family Court in New York and the Public Defender Service in Washington DC.