On 11 March 2021, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th National People Congress (NPC) passed the Decision on Improving the Electoral System of the HKSAR and authorized the Standing Committee (NPCSC) to amend the Annex I and Annex II to the Basic Law, which stipulates Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive and Method for the Formation of the Legislative Council of the HKSAR and its Voting Procedures respectively....
National security has gained more and more attention and become more controversial in recent years internationally and domestically, not only in the sense of traditional security, but also on the immense impacts on global trades and investments, technological developments, and geo-politics among major powers....
Ms TSOI Cheuk Ling was selected as one of the seven finalists of the Law Reform Essay Competition 2022. The topic for this year was: Should the law on labour protection for “gig workers” in Hong Kong be reformed? If so, why and how? If not, why not?
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In order to get prepared for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2026, the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong (CityU School of Law) held two seminars on 25 May 2022 via Zoom. We were honoured to have two panel members of UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, Prof Richard NOLAN (Professor, York Law School, University of York) and Prof George PAVLAKOS (Professor of Law and Philosophy, School of Law, University of Glasgow) as the speakers....
On 26 May 2022, the Public Law and Human Rights Forum (CPLR) organised the fourth webinar in the Asian Perspective on Human Rights series to discuss how forty years of war have impacted Afghanistan and on what term should the international community engage with the Taliban government to improve the country’s social stability and protect the human right of its people....
On 17 May 2022, the Public Law and Human Rights Forum (CPLR) and Asia Pacific Law Review (APLR) hosted the third seminar in the Public Law and Human Rights Book Review Series to discuss the book “The Concept of Proportionality in Public Law”, published by City University of Hong Kong Press in 2020: ...
The Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (LLMArbDR) and the Master of Laws (LLM) in Corporate and Financial Law stream & Intellectual Property and Technology Law stream of City University of Hong Kong have successfully obtained fellowships from the University Grants Committee’s (UGC) Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme for 2022/23 intake. The main purpose of the Scheme is to attract meritorious local students to pursue further studies in priority areas that are conducive to the development of Hong Kong....
