Technological changes and innovations are inevitable and very much linked to the success of a country. However, new technologies may represent a destructive power or at least a disruptive power to the current legal system that requires responses from every country....
Ms HSEUH Hiu Yu, our final-year LLB student, was awarded the “For Our Future Scholarship” by the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation for her achievements in academic performance and personal development as well as social contributions.
The Foundation’s “For Our Future Scholarship” was established to recognise local students who have excellent performance in their academic studies, diverse development and community services. The Scholarship was launched in October 2020, with over 270 applications received....
The Founding Members of the Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA or the “Association”) are pleased to announce the formal inauguration of the Association on 15 January 2021. The inauguration was held in conjunction with the 1st ALSA Deans’ Congress on the Future of Law Schools and Legal Education. The Congress saw many deep insights from the participants (see https://www.cityu.edu.hk/slw/lib/doc/web_story/20210129_ALSA_Deans_Congress.pdf)....
The unresolved Sino-Indian Border Dispute (SIBD) remains a primary cause of tension between China and India. A face-to-face clash in mid-June 2020 resulted in 20 Indian soldiers losing their lives and 76 being wounded, as well as four Chinese soldiers died, becoming the deadliest conflict between the two nations since the 1962 Sino-India War.
This conflict has had a profound impact on the geopolitical situation and the development of international law, as well as Third Word solidarity on a wide range of issues, including regional peace and security, South-South cooperation, development, and regional economic integration in Asia....
Prof WANG Jiangyu’s article, “Dispute Settlement in the Belt and Road Initiative: Progress, Issues, and Future Research Agenda”, was selected as one of the ten best papers in the “Comparative Law” collection of the Best of 2020 Law Journals from Oxford University Press (OUP). The paper was the introductory piece to a special issue entitled “Dispute Settlement in the Belt and Road Initiative” published in ...
Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL), which was enacted on 30 June 2020, has attracted worldwide attention. To discuss various issues related to the NSL, the Public Law and Human Rights Forum (CPLR) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has hosted a Roundtable Series, consisting of five events so far. The two symposiums in Chinese were entitled “Online Symposium on ‘National Security Legislation of the HKSAR’” (June 2020) and “Online Symposium on Theory and Practice of National Security Law” (September 2020)....
On 3, 4 and 9 February 2021, the Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRIGHT) at College of Business and Law, RMIT University and the Public Law and Human Rights Forum (CPLR) at School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) organised the three-day online Symposium for nurturing the next generation of business and human rights doctoral scholars in Asia and Oceania....
