Alvin is a socio-legal scholar who currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow at the ANU College of Law. His research interests primarily focus on private law, specifically property and work, and he is highly skilled in conducting qualitative research, including ethnographic research. Alvin has a keen interest in legal consciousness and legal-oriented phenomena in cross-border contexts or within organisations and employment. Furthermore, he employs a comparative approach to investigate various legal cultures and traditions, with a particular emphasis on Asian-Pacific jurisdictions.

Currently, Alvin's research is centred on the impact of emerging technologies on property and work, examining the perceptions, understandings, and potential implications of these technologies in these fields. Additionally, he enjoys exploring the interconnection between law, language, image, and visual culture, viewing law as a vast body of knowledge.

Alvin's work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Asian Journal of Law and Society, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Law and Humanities, and Journal of Law, Technology, and Policy. He has also presented his research at numerous international conferences, including the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, and the Nordic Association for China Studies Biennial Conference.

Alvin has received degrees from institutions such as the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds a DPhil, an LLM, and an LLB and is also a qualified lawyer who previously practised law in Hong Kong.