Leung, J. (2026) Digital
Multilingualism and Platform Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Leung, J. (2019) Shallow
Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders. New York: Oxford University
Press.

Leung, J. and Durant, A. (Eds.) (2018) Meaning
and Power in the Language of Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Durant, A. and Leung, J. (2016) Language
and Law. Routledge.

Ng, E., Leung, J. and Looper, K. (2021) Public Interpretation Services for Ethnic
Minorities in Hong Kong. Equal Opportunities Commission. Available at https://www.eoc.org.hk/Upload/files/research-report/20211225/Study%20Report.pdf

Wan, M. and Leung, J. (Eds.) (2014) The Rule of Law
and the Cultural Imaginary in (Post-)colonial East Asia. Law Text Culture. Vol. 18.

Leung, J. (forthcoming in 2026) Taking Section 14 of the
Charter Seriously: Chronicle of a Court Interpreter Crisis in Ontario. Modern Criminal Law Review.

Leung, J. (2024) Is This Political Slogan Seditious? A
Linguistic Analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 37: 647-675. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10042-x

Leung, J. (2023) Hurdles and Horizons of Linguistics for
Social Justice. Language in Society 52(5): 882-893. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000635

Leung, J. (2022) Shortcuts and Shortfalls in Meta’s
Content Moderation Practices: A Glimpse from its Oversight Board’s First Year of Operation 1(2): 55-73.
Comparative Law and Language. https://doi.org/10.15168/cll.v1i2.2365

Leung, J. (2021) The Audience Problem in Online Speech
Crimes. Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law 9(2): 189-234. https://www.swlaw.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/189%20LEUNG.pdf

Liu, Y. and Leung, J. (2021) Corpus Insights into the
Harmonization of Commercial Media in China: News Coverage of Migrant Worker Issues as a Case Study. Discourse,
Context & Media 41: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100482.

Yeung, M. and Leung, J. (2020) Litigating without speaking
legalese: the case of unrepresented litigants in Hong Kong. The International Journal of Speech, Language and
the Law 26(2): 231-256. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.34404

Chan, R. and Leung, J. (2020) Why are lexical tones
difficult to learn? Insights from the incidental learning of tone-segment connections. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition. Volume 42, Issue 1, 33-59 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000482

Leung, J. (2019) Does the World Need More Canada? Legal
Multilingualism and Strategic Pluralism. Sherbrooke Law Review / Revue de droit de
l’Université de Sherbrooke. Volume 47(no. 2-3): 193-226. https://www.usherbrooke.ca/droit/fileadmin/sites/droit/documents/RDUS/volume_47/_2-3/47_2-3-Leung.pdf

Leung, J. (2019) Interpretive Violence and the
‘Nationalization’ of Hong Kong Law: Notes on the Oath-taking Controversy. Law and Literature.
Vol 31, Issue 2, 221-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2018.1506408

Chan, R. and Leung, J. (2018) Implicit Knowledge of
Lexical Stress Rules: Evidence from the Combined Use of Subjective and Objective Awareness Measures. Applied
Psycholinguistics 39(1): 37-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716417000376

Leung, J. (2017) Publicity Stunts, Power Play, and
Information Warfare in Mediatised Public Confessions. Law and Humanities 11(1): 82-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2017.1320039

Yeung, M. and Leung, J. (2017) “You have to teach
the judge what to do”: Semiotic gaps between unrepresented litigants and the common law. Semiotica
216: 363-382. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0070

Leung, J. (2016) Negotiating Language Status in Multilingual Jurisdictions: Rhetoric and Reality.
Semiotica 209: 371-396. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0013

Yeung, M. and Leung, J. (2015) Removing linguistic
barriers to justice: a study of official reference texts for unrepresented litigants in Hong Kong. International
Journal of the Semiotics of Law 28(1): 135-153. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v22i1.17224

Leung, J. (2015) Lay Litigation Behaviour in Postcolonial
Hong Kong Courtrooms. Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito 2(1): 32-52. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2864282

Yeung, M. and Leung, J. (2015) An empirical study of lay
comprehension of Chinese legal reference texts in Hong Kong. International Journal of Speech, Language and Law
22(1): 79-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-013-9345-6

Leung, J. and Williams, J. (2014) Cross-Linguistic Differences in Implicit Language Learning.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36(4): 733-755. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263114000333

Wan, M. and Leung, J. (2014) Introduction. Law Text Culture. Vol 18. 1-5. https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol18/iss1/2/

Leung, J. (2014) Critique of Law in a Martial Arts Thriller: the Peril of Emotions, Limits of
Rationality, and Pluralistic Laws. Law Text Culture. Vol 18. 56-81. https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol18/iss1/5/

Leung, J. (2014) The Object of Fidelity in Translating Multilingual Legislation. Semiotica
201: 223- 238. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2014-0026

Chan, R. and Leung, J. (2014) Implicit Learning of L2 Natural Language Stress Rules. Second
Language Research. 30(4): 463-484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658313510169

Leung, J. (2013) Cross-Jurisdiction Appropriation of the Equal Authenticity Principle. Journal
of Legal Pluralism, 45(2): 209-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2013.772463

Leung, J. (2012) Judicial Discourse in Cantonese Courtrooms in Postcolonial Hong Kong: The
Judge as a Godfather, Scholar, Educator and Scolding Parent. International Journal of Speech, Language and
Law. 19(2): 239-261. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v19i2.239

Leung, J. and Williams, J. (2012) Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning
Connections. Language Learning, 62(2): 634-662. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00637.x

Leung, J. (2012) Statutory Interpretation in Multilingual Jurisdictions: Typology and Trends.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 33(5): 481-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2012.680462

Leung, J. and Wan, M. (2012) Constructing the Meaning of Obscenity: an Empirical Investigation and
an Experientialist Account. International Journal of the Semiotics of Law, 25(3): 415-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-011-9251-8

Leung, J. and Williams, J. (2011) The Implicit Learning of Mappings between Forms and
Contextually-Derived Meanings. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33(1): 33-55. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263110000525

Leung, J. (forthcoming) Multilingual Laws and
Jurisdictions. In Solan, L., McAuliffe K., and Moreno, J. (eds.) The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and
Language. Elgar.

Leung, J. (forthcoming in 2026) Finding Equilibrium: Five
Decades of Legal Bilingualism in Hong Kong. International Handbook of Legal
Language and Communication: From Text to Semiotics. Springer.

Leung, J. (2026) The Politics of Official Language Rights
in the Multilingual Courtroom. In Grieshofer, T. and Haworth, K. (eds.) Language
and Justice: Communication in Legal Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
186-200.

Leung, J. (2024) Phantom Justice and Orwellian Violence:
Writing Against Erasure in a Turbulent Hong Kong. In Bayeh, J., Groth, H., and Murphet, J. (eds.) Writing the Global Riot: Literature in a Time of
Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 137-152.

Leung, J. (2018) Ideology and Political Meaning in Legal Translation. In Leung, J. and Durant, A.
(Eds.) Meaning
and Power in the Language of Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 236-255.

Leung, J. (2018) Language Rights. Monika Rathert & Jacqueline Visconti (eds.) Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere.
Walter de Gruyter. 54-82.

Durant, A. and Leung, J. (2017) Pragmatics in legal interpretation. In Barron, A., and Gu, Y. and
Steen, G. (eds.) Routledge
Handbook of Pragmatics. Routledge. 535-549.

Leung, J. (2014) Translation Equivalence as a Legal Fiction. In Sin, KK, Wagner, A., and Cheng, L.
(eds.) The
Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation. Ashgate. 57-69.

Xia, X. and Leung, J. (2014) L1-based prototypicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning. In
Filipović, Luna and Pütz, Martin (eds.), Multilingual
Cognition and Language Use: Processing and Typological Perspectives. John Benjamins.
287-308.

Leung, J. (2012) On the Edge of Reason: Law at the
Borderline. In Wan, M. (Ed.) Reading
The Legal Case: Cross Currents between Law and the Humanities. Routledge. 128-141.

Xia, X. and Leung, J. (2012) Category typicality effects
in foreign language acquisition: The role of L1-based typicality in L2 semantic organization. In Tizón-Couto,
D., Tizón-Couto, B., Pastor-Gómez, I. and Rodriguez-Puente, P. (eds), New Trends and Methodologies in Applied English Language
Research II: Studies in Language Variation, Meaning and Learning. Bern: Peter Lang.

Wan, M. and Leung, J. (2012) A tale of many newspapers:
perversion, criminality, and scopophilia in Hong Kong’s reportage on the Edison Chen scandal. In Wagner, A.
& Sherwin, R. K. (Eds.), Law, Culture and Visual
Studies. Springer.

Leung, J. and Williams, J. (2006) Implicit Learning of Form-Meaning Connections. In R. Sun and N.
Miyake (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 465-70. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

• “The (In)visible Hands of Opium Smuggling in Amitav Ghosh’s Smoke and Ashes.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies:  Forthcoming 2026. 11,000 words. 
   
• Review of Against Exclusion: Disrupting Anti-Chinese Violence in the Nineteenth Century (2024) by Audrey Wu Clark. American Literary History (ALH). Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2026.
   

• “China-US Trade: 1970-present,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. Edited by Chris Shei and Christine Tsui.  Digital platform of Taylor and Francis / Routledge; 2025.

• “Economics and Business: China-US Trade: pre-1949,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. Edited by Chris Shei and Christine Tsui.  Digital platform of Taylor and Francis / Routledge; forthcoming 2026.

• “The China Trade and Transformations in Early U.S. Political Economy.” Review of Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America (2022) by Dael A. Norwood. Diplomatic History (Oxford UP) 47.4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhad032

• “The Last Puritan in Shanghai: The Faded Romance of China Trade Finance and the Queerly Transnational Melancholy of Emily Hahn’ Wartime Opium Smoking.” The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature. Edited by Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo. Oxford University Press, 2022: 209-245.

• “Extraterritorial Publication and American Missionary Authority about the Opium War: Contesting the Eloquence and Reciprocity of John Quincy Adams’s ‘Lecture on the War with China.” Literature and History, 29.1 (May 2020): 1-23.

• “Once Upon a Time in 1784: American Mercantile Biographies and the Romance of Free Trade Imperialism.” China and Global Modernity, 1784-1919. Edited by William Christie and Q. S. Tong. Sydney University Press, 2020: 109-145.

• “Revising Escape: Frederick Douglass’s Civic Promise of Free Trade and Amitav Ghosh’s Global Geography of Commerce.” In Rethinking America’s Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection. Edited by Tim Gruenewald. University of Cincinnati Press, 2019:  67-119.

• “The Sacred Fonts and Racial Frames of the American Mission Press: Mongolian Type, Chinese Exclusion, and the Transnational Figuration of Savagery,” American Quarterly 71.1 (March 2019):1-28;  Beyond the Page coda.

• “Caleb Cushing and the Corporate Romance of Free Trade Imperialism in Washington Irving’s Astoria (1836),” Literature Compass, 14.9 (September 2017): 1-11.

• “Captivity Narratives.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. (DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199827251-0115).

• “Henry James and the China Trade,” Modern Fiction Studies 60.4 (Winter 2014): 677-710.

• “Reading for Contexts of American Orientalism from the Far East to the Far West,” American Literary History (ALH) 25.3 (Fall 2013): 638-659.

• “Revising First Impressions: American Stereotypes of China and the National Romance of Free Trade” and

• “The Speculative Romance of Early Sino-American Commerce in The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the First American Consul at Canton (1847).” In Narratives of Free Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations , 2012.

• “The Place of Macao In American Literary Studies.” In Introduction to Macaology. Edited by Hao Yufan, Wu Zhiliang, and Lin Guangzhi. Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe, 2012: 289-312.

• Review of Henry James’s Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception and Cognition (2010) by Kristin Boudreau, and The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolution (2010) by Amy Tucker. In American Literature 84.1 (March 2012): 196-198.

• “Henry James, 1843-1916: A Brief Biography.” In A Historical Guide to Henry James. Edited by John Carlos Rowe and Eric Haralson. Oxford University Press, 2012: 14-52.

• Review of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (2008) by Sean Kicummah Teuton, and Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (2008) by Cari M. Carpenter. In American Literature 82.2 (June 2010): 439-441.

• “Visual Culture.” In Henry James in Context. Edited by David McWhirter. Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. 364-377.

• “Peace, Friendship, and Financial Panic: Reading the Mark of Black Hawk in Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak.” American Literary History. 19.4 (Winter 2007): 771-99.

• “Book review of Oz Frankel, States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States, Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 30.3 (September 2008): pp. 285-87.

• Reviews of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era by George Yúdice and Individuality Incorporated:Indians and the Multicultural Modern by Joel Pfister. American Literature. 77.3 (Summer 2005).

• “Rising from the stain on a painter’s palette: George Catlin’s Picturesque and the Legibility of Indian Removal.” Nineteenth Century Prose. 29.2 (Fall 2002): 69-93.

• “The Dark Spot in the Picturesque: The Aesthetics of Polygenism and Henry James’s ‘A Landscape Painter.’” American Literature. 74. 1 (Spring 2002): 59-87.

• “The Scarlet Feather: Racial Phantasmagoria in What Maisie Knew.” The Henry James Review. 22.2 (Spring 2001): 128-146.

• “Melville and the Post-Colonial Quandary,” Review of The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Post-Colonial Reader by Geoffrey Sanborn. American Literature. 72.2 (June 2000): 423.

• Critical essays on Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Yukio Mishima for Short Stories for Students, a series by Gale Research Co.: Detroit, 2000.

• “Haunting Transcendence: The Strategy of Ghosts in Breton and Bataille.” Twentieth-Century Literature. 45.3 (Fall 1999): 347-370.