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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.
The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre was brimming with people of all ages and nationalities from noon until 4 p.m. 7 February, and many of them had legal activities on their minds. Whether it was to land a summer placement with Clifford Chance, seek a career opportunity or investigate law programmes, some 100 people milled about Room 201, the venue for this year's Law Fair.
They're packing their bags and heading for Galldachd (the Lowlands of Scotland) to sort out some neighbourhood nuisance. Second year students in CityU's School of Law, Fanny Ting Fong Siu and Timothy Ma Tin Tai teamed up to outperform Hong Kong University (HKU) in the Hong Kong Round of the Louis M Brown International Client Counselling Competition (ICCC) on 31st January 2004.
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.
Marking Shenzhen University's 20th anniversary, Professor (Chair) Peter Malanczuk of CityU's School of Law was invited by Dean Xinping Ye of the College of Law to deliver a lecture on CEPA, 15 November, at the special Joint Conference held by the International Law Society of Guangdong Province and the Society of Law of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
A new, fast-track, graduate-entry Juris Doctor (JD) programme and a restructured four-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme for the 2004-05 academic year have been launched. These initiatives answer recommendations raised in a 2001 report on legal education reform in Hong Kong and cater to growing aspirations among non-law graduates to enter the legal profession.