2023-09-11T17:14:27+08:002020-10-16|People, Senior Instructors|

Man Teng IONG

Senior Instructor

Programme Coordinator of Master of Law in Macau Law and Practice

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD in Private Law, University of Minho, Portugal (2018-2022)

Thesis: “Responsabilidade civil na medicina tradicional chinesa: análise na perspetiva do ordenamento jurídico português” (Civil Liability in Traditional Chinese Medicine – Analysis from the perspective of the Portuguese legal system)

Supervisors: Sónia MOREIRA; Vera Lúcia RAPOSO

  • LLM in Legal Sciences, University of Macau, China (2013-2015)

Thesis: “Directivas antecipadas de vontade: um regime existente em Macau?” (Advance directives: an existing regime in Macau?)

Supervisor: Vera Lúcia RAPOSO

  • LLB in Law, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (2009-2013)

Other Roles

Working Experiences

  • Senior Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau (16 August 2019 until now)
  • Legal Advisor, Legal Department, Macau Health Bureau (19 August 2013 – 21 July 2019)
  • Notary (Notário Privativo), Macau Health Bureau (26 August 2015 – 21 July 2019)

Teaching Areas

1) Current Teaching Subjects:

  • Medical/Health Law – [Portuguese LLM]
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice – [Chinese LLM]
  • Introduction to Law – [Portuguese LLB]
  • Obligational Law (Legal Practice) I & II – [Chinese LLB]
  • Political Science – [Chinese LLB]

2) Formerly Taught Subjects:

  • Criminal Proceedings – [Portuguese LLB]
  • General Theory of Portuguese Law – [Chinese LLB]
  • Comparative Law – [Chinese LLB]
  • Legal Translation Chinese/Portuguese I & II – [Portuguese LLB]
  • Legal English I & II – [Portuguese LLB]

Research Interests

  • Medical/Health Law
  • Human Rights and Fundamental Rights
  • Criminal Law and Criminology

Publications

1) Books

  • Man Teng Iong. Directivas Antecipadas de Vontade – Um Regime Existente em Macau?. Editor Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 23 March 2017. ISBN: 9783330763616.

2) Book Chapters

  • Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…”. In D. Cheung & M. Dunn (Eds.), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis (pp. 262-275). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. DOI:10.1017/9781009152631.018. (Available for download).

 3) Journal Articles

  • Man Teng Iong. “The Role of China in Enhancing Global Supply Chains: Legal Obstacles and Solutions”. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 19(9): 338-345 (2023). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download)
  • Man Teng Iong. “Compulsive medical acts and duty to inform: the Portuguese perspective”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1(2023): 457-466 (2023). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
  • Man Teng Iong. “Artificial Intelligence and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Portuguese Criminal Law”. Tec Yearbook – Artificial Intelligence & Robots (School of Law of the University of Minho), pp. 39-51 (2020). (Available for download).
  • Man Teng Iong. “Telemedicine in China: An Enlightenment from COVID-19”. Medicine and Law, 39(4): 595-602 (December 2020). (ESCI, Scopus)
  • Man Teng Iong. “Criminal Liability for Violation of Informed Consent in Macao”. UMagazine (University of Macau), Issue 22: 62-65 (Spring/Summer 2020) (Available for reading).
  • Man Teng Iong. “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde”. Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2019, pp. 113-120 (July 2020). (Available for download).
  • Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “The struggle against the CoViD-19 pandemic in Macao”. BioLaw Journal, NO 1S(2020): 747-752 (2020). (ESCI, Scopus) (Available for download).
  • Man Teng Iong. “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?”. Proceedings of the International Meeting “Equality and Responsibility in Family Relations”, pp. 105-116 (February 2020). ISBN: 978-989-54587-2-1 (Available for download).
  • Man Teng Iong. “Please Allow True Self-Decision Under Macao Law”. Medicine and Law, 38(2): 183-192 (June 2019). (ESCI, Scopus)
  • Man Teng Iong. “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform”. Medicine and Law, 37(1): 229-243 (March 2018). (ESCI, Scopus)
  • Man Teng Iong. “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa”. Legisiuris de Macau em Revista – Especial Erro Médico (Centro de Reflexão, Estudo e Difusão do Direito de Macau da Fundação Rui Cunha), vol. 8, pp. 49-60 (Nov. 2017). ISSN: 2307-9312.
  • Man Teng Iong. “Do acidente médico à responsabilidade civil médica no ordenamento jurídico da República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário, 6(3): 101-117 (Jul./Sept. 2017). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v6i3 (Available for download).
  • Vera Lúcia Raposo, Man Teng Iong. “Grandes esperanças: tribunais do acidente médico na República Popular da China”. Revista Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário. 5(3): 223-236 (Jul./Sept. 2016). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17566/ciads.v5i3 (Available for download).

Conferences/Seminars

  • 2-4 August 2023: Participation in the “27th World Congress for Medical Law, Vilnius, Lithuania” hosted by the World Association for Medical Law and Mykolas Romeris University, with the topic “The Role of Healthcare Policies in China: Fighting Pandemic Versus Protecting Patients’ Rights” (as a speaker).
  • 6 May 2023: Participation in the Annual Conference “Ruling Xinjiang by Law: Interregional Law from an International Perspective” hosted by the China Institute of Legal History and the Xinjiang University of Political Science and Law, as a moderator in the sub-forum “Western Modern Legal Thought” and as the representative speaker of the organiser of the 2024 Annual Conference in the closing ceremony (as a moderator and a speaker).
  • 2-3 May 2023: Participation in the Conference “Advance Directives Across Asia – Trends and Patterns” organised by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law of the University of Hong Kong, with the topic “Advance Directives in Macao: Not Legally Recognised, but…” (as a speaker).
  • 19 October 2022: Participation in the Conference “VI Meeting of EDUM Researchers 2022”, with the topic “Aplicabilidade da Perda de Chance na Responsabilidade Médica” (as a speaker).
  • 18 August 2022: Participation in the Conference “2022 Straits Law Forum: Research on Legal Guarantee of Elderly Care Services”, with the topic “The Revolution of Elderly Care in Macao: A Study of Smart Elderly Care and Legal System” (as a speaker).
  • 25 March 2021: Participation in the Conference “Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice and Beyond the Covid Emergency”, with the topic “Experiência de Macau contra a COVID-19: do Bem para o Mal” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Vera Lúcia RAPOSO).
  • 9 January 2021: Participation in the “The 2nd Council of the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao Legal Education Alliance in 2020 and the Conference on the Training of Foreign-related Legal Talents”, under a topic entitled “How the alliance member colleges participate in the national foreign-related legal personnel training” (as a speaker).
  • 21 November 2020: Participation in the “High-end forum on legal service innovation and development under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port”, under a topic entitled “Under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port-new opportunities for foreign law services” (as a speaker with the co-speaker Io Cheng TONG)
  • 22 March 2020: Participation in the CTLE Online Half-Day Faculty Development Workshop: Online/Blended Teaching & Learning: Review and Looking Ahead, organised by the University of Macau (as a speaker).
  • 5-6 December 2019: Participatation in the Conference entitled Jornadas Internacionais ‘Igualdade e responsabilidade nas relações familiares’, organized by the JusGov, Law School of University of Minho, ADFAS and FCT, with the following presentation: “Contrato de Gestação Sub-rogada: Quem Assume a Parentalidade em caso de Arrependimento?” (as a speaker).
  • 2 July 2019: Participation in the 3rd Meeting of Researchers in Legal Sciences of the University of Minho: the state of art in law research, organized by the School of Researchers of the JusGov, with the following presentation: “Literacia em Saúde e Consentimento Informado: Responsabilidade Civil Médica na Falta de Compreensão da Informação de Saúde” (as a speaker).
  • 15-17 October 2018: Participation in the 3rd Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: a transdisciplinary approach, organized by the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae/Center for Human Rights, with the following presentation: “How Genes Influence My Behaviour: Analysis of Behavioural Genetics Evidence Under the Criminal Law of Portugal” (as a speaker).
  • 2-6 September 2018: Participation in the 24th World Congress on Medical Law and Bioethics, Tel Aviv, Israel, organized by the World Association for Medical Law, with the following presentation: “Please Let Mentally Ill Patients Make True Self-Decision Under the Macau Law” (as a speaker).
  • 30 November 2017: Participation in the Conference of “Special Number of Law on Medical Malpractice”, organized by the Fundation Rui Cunha, with the following presentation: “Impacto do Regime Jurídico do Erro Médico sobre a Medicina Tradicional Chinesa” (as a speaker).
  • 16 and 17 October 2017: Participation in the II Conference on Medical Law – Asian Perspectives on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Medical Law, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Fight between Secret of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions and Duty to Inform” (as a speaker).
  • 13 and 14 December 2016: Participation in the 2016 UNCITRAL Emergence Conference, organized by UNCITRAL and UMAC, with the following presentation: “The Role of China for Enhancing Global Supply Chains – Legal Obstacles and Solutions” (as a speaker).
  • 6 and 7 December 2016: Participation in the Second International Conference “Consumer Policy in China New Trends and Challenges”, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Informed Consent in Traditional Chinese Medicine” (as a speaker).
  • 20 April 2016: Participation in a Seminar related to Medical Liability and Patient’s Safety, organized by the Faculty of Law of University of Macau, with the following presentation: “Advance Directive” (as a speaker).