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CityU LLMArbDR Obtains Fellowships from UGC
The Master of Laws in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (LLMArbDR) programme of City University of Hong Kong has successfully obtained fellowships from the University Grants Committee’s (UGC) Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships Scheme for 2020/21 academic year. The main purpose of the Scheme is to attract more meritorious local students to pursue further studies in priority areas conducive to the development of Hong Kong....

Recent Development of RCCL
Professor Wang Jiangyu appointed Director of RCCL...

Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre (IP Festival) Expert Lecture - Towards a Theory of Limited Exclusive Right in Big Data
The School of Law of CityU was honored to have Prof Guobin CUI (Associate Professor; Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Tsinghua University School of Law) to give a public lecture titled “Towards a Theory of Limited Exclusive Right in Big Data” on 8 Jan 2020. ...

Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre (IP Festival) EUPLANT Seminar: EU-China Round Table on IP
On 8 January 2020, the Hong Kong Commercial and Maritime Law Centre (HKCML) organized a seminar entitled “EUPLANT Seminar: EU-China Round Table on IP”. This seminar aims to recognize the importance of Intellectual Property Law in the process of globalization, and to reflect the diversity of the Asian IP landscape. The seminar began with welcoming remarks given by Prof. TAN Cheng Han (Dean; Chair Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong).  Prof. Tan extended a warm welcome to all of our seminar participants and wished this important seminar a great success....

CityU Law School Associate Dean receives The President’s Awards
Professor Lin Feng, Associate Dean of CityU Law School, was awarded one of The President’s Awards (TPAs) to recognize his exemplary contributions to research and professional education that have helped CityU achieve local and global distinction. Our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Lin. ...

Symposium on the System and Powers of Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region
The Symposium on the System and Powers of Chief Executive of the Special Administrative Region, funded by the Basic Law of Hong Kong Implementation Research Project, was held on December 20-21, 2019 in the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law Conference Room. ...

National Judges College and City University of Hong Kong Successfully Held Symposium
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
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....

CityU Law School ranked 25th in 2020 Times Higher Education Law Rankings
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....