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The School of Law received a delegation of 100 law school deans from reputable mainland institutions, 24 March. Members of the delegation took part in a roundtable discussion on the future of Chinese legal education.
Dr Peng-sheng Chiu, Research Fellow in Academia Sinica, Taiwan, will sepak on "Classification and Structure: A Study of the Legal Knowledge and Learning in Ming & Qing Dynasties in China", 4:30 pm - 6pm, 17 March, at the Chinese Civilisation Centre AV Room.
The School of Law hosted its first WTO & Greater China Economic Area Law Conference, 10-11 March, attended by 80 renowned WTO scholars and experts from the mainland, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
Leading experts discussed issues relating to disaster management and governance in Asia at the International Conference on Issues Relating to Disaster Management organized by the School of Law, 4-5 March.
A five-member delegation from the Beijing WTO Affairs Centre visited CityU 29 March, looking for opportunities of co-operation with the WTO Law Dispute Resolution Centre (WTODR Centre).
Ms Amina Mohamed, Ambassador of Kenya and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva, visited CityU's WTO Law and Dispute Resolution Centre on 24 March, to meet with SLW (Chair) Professor Peter Malanczuk. SLW Lecturer Dr Zhao Yun and several LLM students were also present.
In the first ever Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, hosted by CityU's School of Law (SLW) 18-21 March, Tsinghua University (Beijing) triumphed over the other 13 participating teams from universities around the world. "Thanks to all of you who helped start a tradition that will provide a continuing and ready reference to City University as the arbitration school of the region," concluded Vis (East) Director Ms Louise Barrington.
China, as a new member of the World Trade Organization, has, by and large, complied with its membership duties, according to Mr Pascal Lamy, European Union Commissioner for Trade, who spoke at City University of Hong Kong on 12 March. But there seems to be a tendency on China's part to resort to "innovative" non-tariff trade practices that may not be in sync with the WTO principles.

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