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CityU Virtual Information Day 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. ...

The 25th Goff Arbitration Lecture – Arbitrator “Temperance”: David Caron’s Rule of X
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....

CityU LLMArbDR and LLM Programmes Obtain Fellowships from UGC
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....

Research Camp
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))...

CityU hosted a conference on ‘The Potential and Future of ODR’
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....

International Symposium on the National Security Law of Hong Kong: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
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...

New Student Orientation 2020
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. ...

RCCL Online Symposium on the Application of the CISG to the HKSAR (28 August 2020)
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....

RCCL in Collaboration with CALS Held the Online Roundtable on “How has COVID-19 (Re)shaped Government-Business Relations in Asia?” (28 July 2020)
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....