The CityU School of Law has established two collaborative degree programmes with Georgetown University to offer the CityU JD/ Georgetown LLM and CityU LLB/Georgetown LLM.
These collaborative programmes are a testimony to the School’s strong global alliances and provide CityU students with an opportunity to obtain professional degrees in the United States and Hong Kong. They will enhance students’ employability in both jurisdictions with an overall reduction in study time. With proper planning, the JD/LLM programme can be completed in three years of full-time study while the LLB/LLM programme may be completed in four years....
The construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a major strategic move for China's national development. On 18 February 2019, the Central Government issued the Outline of Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area which marks a new page for the construction of the GBA....
Research conducted by Dr. Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN regarding the corporate governance of Chinese state-owned enterprises has been relied upon by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the disclosure rule under a newly-enacted federal law—Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCA). The public comment submitted by Dr. Lin and her co-author Professor Curtis MILHAUPT, the William F....
To help prospective applicants learn more about our School and receive the latest information about entrance requirements of our postgraduate programmes, CityU School of Law held an admission talk via GTER (寄託天下) on 6 January 2022. The talk was attended by Dr DING Chunyan (Associate Dean), Dr Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN (Master of Laws Programme Director), Dr Christopher TO Wing (Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Programme Director) and Dr Sara TSUI Fung Ling (Juris Doctor Programme Associate Director), and it attracted more than 600 participants....
The City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently announced the appointment of Ms Bonita CHAN Bow-ye to the CityU Court for a term of three years starting from 1 January 2022.
Ms Bonita Chan obtained her LLB (Hons) in 1991 and her PCLL in 1992 from CityU. She was in the first batch of law graduates of CityU in 1991 and was for many years the chairlady of the CityU Law School Alumni Association. Ms Chan was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1994 and has since been in private practice for over 25 years. She is currently a partner at Ince & Co.
Let’s extend our warmest congratulations to Ms Chan!...
The Company Law of the People's Republic of China has been in force since July 1, 1994, with amendments to individual provisions in 1999 and 2004, a comprehensive amendment in 2005, and two necessary amendments in 2013 and 2018. The Company Law of the People's Republic of China was again submitted to the Thirty-second Session of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress for consideration in December 2021....
Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre organized a conference entitled “The Interface Between Trust Law and Contract Law in Express Trusts Conference” on 14 December 2021. ...
The School of Law and College of Business are pleased to announce an innovative professional degree collaboration across the law and business disciplines.
An accelerated path to business and law courses will be offered by the Juris Doctor (JD) and MBA programmes from the 2022/23 academic year onwards.
Students may enroll in either the JD or MBA programme first, with opportunities to take courses from the partner programme. Credit units earned can then be used for credit transfer when the student subsequently enrolls in the other programme....
CityU School of Law, in cooperation with EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation (EUPLANT) Project, have jointly held a lecture via Zoom on 23 November 2021. We were honoured to have Professor Eva PILS, Professor of Law at King's College London, to give a lecture titled “Understanding China’s Global Governance Ambitions in light of the Decline of the Rule of Law in Hong Kong”....
