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 two online admission talks via GTER (寄託天下) on 19 March and 28 April 2021 respectively. Dr DING Chunyan (Associate Dean), Dr Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN (Master of Laws Programme Director), Dr TO Wing Christopher (Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Programme Director) and Dr Sara TSUI Fung Ling (Juris Doctor Programme Associate Director) attended. The talks attracted close to 1,400 participants in total....
The Intermediaries in Commercial Law conference, organized by UCL in collaboration with CityU, NUS and Notre Dame, will be held on 9 and 10 June 2021. This is intended to be the first in a biennial series of conferences on different aspects of commercial law. The papers in the conference will be published in a book to be edited by Professor Paul DAVIES of UCL and Professor TAN Cheng-Han of CityU. For more information on the conference, go to https://sway.office.com/tbk8CTdY1CYUJXUA?ref=Link....
CityU School of Law, in cooperation with EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation (EUPLANT) Project, have jointly held a lecture via Zoom on 27 May 2021. We were honoured to have Dr Kolja RAUBE, Assistant Professor of European Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium, to give a lecture titled “EU-China Relations: A Coherence Perspective”....
Our School warmly congratulates Mr Lester Garson HUANG on being admitted to the Law Society of Hong Kong’s Roll of Honour in recognition of his distinguished service to the Society, to the Council of the Society, to the development of the legal profession in Hong Kong and to the practice of law in Hong Kong....
For the past few decades, there sees an increasing importance of law in China’s development. Notwithstanding that, however, both the nature and function of law in today’s China could hardly be understood and explained by traditional legal concepts and theories, and this is particularly true in the context of its continuous rise of authoritarianism. ...
Legal education is going through a transformative period due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Few classes and assessments are currently being held in a face-to-face format. Rather, the majority of classes and assessments are being conducted online. At some point in time, COVID-19 will no longer be an impediment to face-to-face interactions in legal education. However, in the interim, lessons will have been learned about the types of innovative face-to-face learning, online learning and hybrid learning methods that have proved effective and can be best utilised in the post-COVID teaching and learning era....
Dr Navin G. AHUJA and Mr Campbell HERBERT led CityU to perform outstandingly in both the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Vis Vienna) and its sister moot, the Vis East (collectively referred to as Vis Moot). Both the Vis Vienna and the Vis East were held virtually in March 2021. The Vis Moot is a competition built around a fictional arbitration. Teams are required first to prepare two written memoranda, for claimant and for respondent, and subsequently to act as either party’s advocates in the oral rounds....
