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New Student Orientation 2021
The CityU Law School Student Orientation 2021 was held in a real-time, online format on 24 August for the new LLB, JD, PCLL, LLM and LLMArbDR students. Around 450 students attended the Orientation on ZOOM. The Orientation aimed to give new students an overview of academic and university life, introduce them to the University’s resources, facilities and opportunities, and help them get prepared for their new start....

Dr Yu-Hsin Lauren LIN’s Paper with Prof Curtis MILHAUPT Featured in Stanford Lawyer
Dr Yu-Hsin Lauren LIN’s paper with Prof Curtis MILHAUPT, the William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, was featured in “Responding to China’s State Capitalism” in the latest issue of Stanford Lawyer, a Stanford Law magazine....

Virtual Book Launch: “The Origin of Copyright: Expression as Knowing in Being and Copyright Onto-Epistemology”
CityU School of Law, in cooperation with Routledge and EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation (EUPLANT) Project, have jointly held a book launch via Zoom on 22 July 2021. We are honoured to have Dr. GUAN Wenwei, Associate Professor of School of Law at City University of Hong Kong, to introduce his latest publication “The Origin of Copyright: Expression as Knowing in Being and Copyright Onto-Epistemology”....

Congratulations to Five Faculty Members Awarded General Research Fund (GRF)
The RGC has recently announced the results of the 2021–22 funding exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF). CityU School of Law continued to succeed in developing a strong research culture and has obtained five law research grants which indicates that we have a high quality research environment....

Congratulations to Professor Julien CHAISSE on Obtaining the Award for Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme!
Prof Julien CHAISSE received the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS 2021/2022). Not more than ten awards are granted for all institutions per year and this is the first time ever the School receives this award that recognises excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences....

Research Retreat (June 2021)
The Research Retreat was hosted on 16 June 2021 via Zoom Webinar. The event kicked off with a welcoming speech by Prof TAN Cheng-Han (Dean, CityU School of Law). Prof Tan extended a warm welcome to all participants....