City University of Hong Kong has collaborated with the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China and its National Judges College since 2009. Together they have organized a number of programmes for Chinese senior judges and have educated elites in the field. To celebrate 10-year cooperation between National Judges College and City University of Hong Kong (CityU), a Symposium and Case Law and Case Guidance System Forum were held on 8 December 2019 at National Judges College in Beijing....
The Second Climate Change Moot Court competition was held at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on 2 November 2019. It was organized by the Hong Kong America Center (HKAC) in which 12 teams, representing all Hong Kong’s universities took part.
Proposals across a wide range of environmental protection concerns, for example, air quality, water quality, green ways, land use and the protection of green and blue space, green building codes and retrofitting strategies, legal consequences to polluters, and principles for green urban and regional planning, were advocated by the teams and participants....
The City University of Hong Kong School of Law is proud to announce that in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Law Rankings, it is ranked joint 25th in the world. This is an improvement of 20 places from last year. For a full overview of the results, visit the THE subject rankings page....
On 7 Nov 2019, the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (RCCL) held a Retreat to review on the Centre’s recent development and to discuss its future development. Participants of the Retreat include RCCL’s core members and associate members, as well as the Dean of School of Law Prof. Cheng Han Tan and two incoming RCCL members who will join our Law School in January 2020, namely Prof. Liu Qiao and Prof. Wang Jiangyu....
City University of Hong Kong has collaborated with the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China and its National Judges College since 2009. Together they have organized a number of programmes for Chinese senior judges and have educated elites in the field. The Opening Ceremony for the 7th Doctor of Juridical Science Programme for Chinese Senior Judges, the 10th Master of Laws Programme for Chinese Judges and the 15th Advanced Programme for Chinese Senior Judges was successfully held on 9 October 2019 at Joseph Lee Hall (LT-3505), Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building....
The School of Law of City University of Hong Kong has recently joined the THEMIS network. THEMIS represents a network of top ranked European Universities which have come together to create a new standard in business law in response to an ever-increasing demand for law professionals with international know-how and expertise.
THEMIS network includes Università Bocconi (Milan, Italy), Esade (Barcelona, Spain), Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany), Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne (Paris, France), Maastricht Law School (Maastricht,a The Netherlands), Universität St. Gallen (Switzerland) and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) (Austria)....
The Research Retreat 2019 took place at Royal Plaza Hotel on 26 September 2019. This year, we invited Dr Kevin DOWNING (Director, Institutional Research Office, City University of Hong Kong) to present on “CityU in QS and THE Subject Rankings (School of Law)”. The Research Retreat kicked off with a welcome speech by Prof TAN Cheng-Han (Dean, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong). He gave a brief talk on strategies to succeed in legal research....
The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) Corporate Governance Paper Competition and Presentation Awards 2019 was successfully held at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) on Saturday, 21 September 2019. This Corporate Governance Paper Competition has been organized by HKICS since 2006 in order to raise the awareness of the importance of good governance for undergraduates of local universities. The theme for this year’s is “How is good governance of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) similar to, and different from, good corporate governance of public companies”....
From 11 August to 14 August 2019, the Human Rights Law and Policy Forum (HRLF) participated in the 2019 International Model United Nations Human Rights Council Universal PeriodicReview (MUPR) competition organized by Human Asia (an established South Korean HumanRights NGO) and sponsored by the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR). The aim of the MUPR is to encourage participants to find sustainable solutions to protecting and promoting human rights worldwide....
