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President and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of the PRC and CityU Honorary Doctor of Laws, Dr Xiao Yang shared his insights on the judiciary system and its reform in China in the Wei Hing Theatre, 12 November, 2004.
Jointly organized by CityU's School of Law, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre of the Macao SAR, and the French Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao, "Present and Future of Civil Law in Greater China — Conference on the 200th Anniversary of the French Civil Code" takes place 9-10 November, 2004.
C Raj Kumar, Lecturer in the School of Law, has completed his reasearch project entitled "Corruption and Human Rights -- Promoting Transparency in Governance in Hong Kong, Japan and India".
Co-hosted by Tsinghua University's School of Law and CityU's School of Law, the 'Conference on Legal Education in Greater China—Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century', held at CityU 21 and 22 May, was the culmination of a long, cooperative relationship between the two institutions. Some essential ingredients in a comprehensive strategy for meeting the challenges faced by legal education emerged during the discussions.
Who do you call when your country stands accused of unfairly subsidizing its agricultural exports, or sanctioning imports? The World Trade Organization's 148 member nations know.
Mr C Raj Kumar, Deputy Director of City University's WTO Law and Dispute Resolution Centre and lecturer in the School of Law, has been awarded a research grant by Japan's Sumitomo Foundation. Mr Kumar's grant was in the category of Fiscal 2002 Grant for Japan-Related Research Projects. The title of his research topic is: "Corruption and Human Rights-Promoting Transparency in Governance in Hong Kong, Japan and India".
A centre that is unique in the Asia-Pacific region has been established at City University. The School of Law's WTO Law and Dispute Resolution Centre (WTODR Centre), launched in January 2002, is distinctive because it focuses not only on World Trade Organization (WTO) law but also on trade and commercial dispute resolutions and the links between the two, according to Centre Director Professor Peter Malanczuk.
Art is art; technology is, well, technology. Their paths seldom cross, right? Not in the case of Body Brush, an advanced computer-aided tool pioneered by CityU's Professor Horace Ip to merge the two to produce stunning artistic results.
One of the world's most renowned experts on international trade law, Dr Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, visited CityU on 19 July to deliver a lecture on competition rules in the World Trade Organization.
While many scholars turn democracy into a gigantic, often culturally specific package of political and economic arrangements, Professor Edward Rubin, Professor of Law of the University of Pennsylvania, offered a different approach in his public lecture on 9 April. He pointed out that democracy consists of pragmatic political arrangements that align the incentives of government officials with the desires of people.