A groundbreaking study in fiduciary-epistemic theory that reimagines the modern university as a constitutional guardian of knowledge. It exposes how marketisation and managerialism erode truth, compares universities to hybrid AI firms, and proposes legal reform to restore candour, accountability, and public trust in knowledge.

Analysis of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests through Epistemic Clientelism Theory, showing how scaffold collapse produced epistemic capture and democratic lessons.