The Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (LLMArbDR) and the Master of Laws (LLM) in Corporate and Commercial Law of City University of Hong Kong have successfully obtained fellowships from the University Grants Committee’s (UGC) Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme (Second Cohort) for 2021/22 intake. The main purpose of the Scheme is to attract meritorious local students to pursue further studies in priority areas that are conducive to the development of Hong Kong....
The webinar Research Camp was hosted on 30 September 2020. The event kicked off with a welcome speech by Prof TAN Cheng-Han (Dean, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (SLW, CityU))...
With the COVID-19 lockdown, traditional in-person justice must often now be pursued online. As a result, more practitioners and scholars are putting the spotlight on ODR - online dispute resolution. The online conference, entitled ‘The Potential and Future of ODR’, discussed the advantages, drawbacks and potential impacts of ODR and its development in an international context....
The Public Law and Human Rights Forum (CPLR) and the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
(RCCL) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, together with the “One Country Two
Systems” Law Institute at...
The CityU Law School Student Orientation 2020 was held in a real-time, online format on 25 August for the new LLB, JD, PCLL, LLM and LLMArbDR students. More than 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. ...
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), adopted on 11 April 1980, was designed to provide uniform rules for contracts involving sale of goods between different countries that may have different legal regimes. To date, there are more than 90 countries that are parties to the CISG, including the mainland China, US and Japan, which are among the top trading partners of Hong Kong. However, due to the unique historical development of Hong Kong, the CISG has never been applicable locally....
While COVID-19 is hitting the world with its unprecedented impact, governments throughout the globe are responding to the crisis in different ways. Being first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and later developed into a pandemic, as declared by the World Health Organisation in March 2020, the new coronavirus has seen its world-wide outbreak. Domestic economies and international trades have suffered enormously while authorities are implementing different measures among jurisdictions....
Companies operating in Hong Kong and their employees face significant uncertainties about their obligations and potential liabilities under Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL), which came into force on 1 July 2020. Apart from concerns related to broad and ambiguous definition of four NSL crimes (i.e., secession, subversion, terrorism activities, and collusion with foreign country or external elements) and the extraterritoriality principle, companies might find it difficult to comply with the NSL on the one hand and legislation of other countries as well as international soft standards such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) on the other hand....
The RGC has recently announced the results of the 2020-21 funding exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF). The School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) continued to succeed in developing a strong research culture and has obtained three law research grants which indicates that we have a high quality research environment....
