Dr. Mark D. Kielsgard is an Assistant Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong and was formerly a trial attorney from the United States. His research consists of criminal law (international, comparative and domestic) and human rights issues (broadly defined) and he teaches criminal law and human rights law courses at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels. Dr. Kielsgard is the winner of the 2013 Myres S. McDougal Prize from the Society of Policy Scientists, a former recipient of the Marie Curie Scholarship to Leiden University and is one of a panel of experts preparing a whitepaper for the Hong Kong legislature for implementation of universal suffrage in the Chief Executive elections for 2017.