The Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) was formally inaugurated on January 15, 2021 with a Deans’ Congress. Deans and academic leaders from the 22 founding institutions participated in a wide-ranging and stimulating discussion on the future of law schools and legal education.
Below are some of the insights from the Deans’ Congress....
In early January of 2021, the Dean of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) Prof. Tan Cheng Han and Director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (CCCL) of CityU School of Law Prof. Wang Jiangyu were interviewed by HK01 — a Hong Kong-based online news portal — on the role of Hong Kong’s law schools in Hong Kong’s legal research and education reform....
Professor Julien CHAISSE was awarded the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for the best article in the field of international arbitration by International Arbitration Club of New York. The prize is being awarded for the article, “Cybersecurity and the Protection of Digital Assets -- Assessing the Role of International Investment Law and Arbitration,” which was co-authored with Cristen Bauer and was published in Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 2019....
CityU School of Law will offer two double degree programmes namely, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science in Computing Mathematics, and Bachelor of Social Sciences in Criminology and Bachelor of Laws in the next academic year to fulfill market needs.
JS1220 Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science in Computing Mathematics...
Dr Massimo Lando was awarded the Prix Daniel Vignes, ex aequo with Dr. Nicholas Ioannides, for his article entitled “Judicial Uncertainties concerning Territorial Sea Delimitation under Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”, published in volume 66 of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2017)....
On 19 September 2020, China’s Ministry of Commerce formally introduced the Unreliable Entity List regime as an attempt to protect the development interests of China. Laws reshaping the Chinese foreign policy were also passed. In order to promote the rule of law in the Chinese foreign relations and deepen the understanding on how the Chinese government conduct foreign affairs, the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) School of Law, in collaboration with the Fudan University Law School and the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, held an online international symposium on ‘The Rule of Law in Chinese Foreign Affairs’ on 30 November 2020....
The CityU Virtual Information Day 2020 was held on 24 October 2020 (Saturday). The School of Law organized a series of online seminar, sharing session and consultations to provide prospective students with the most up-to-date information about the Bachelor of Laws programme. To review the content of talks, please visit https://infoday.cityu.edu.hk. ...
CityU School of Law, in cooperation with Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), held the 25th Goff Arbitration Lecture via Zoom on 14 October 2020....
