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....
For two years in a row, the Human Rights Law and Policy Forum (HRLF) has organized internships for our students to Seoul, South Korea, as part of a credit-bearing Legal Placement course. These internship opportunities aim at providing students with exposure to law-related issues in East Asia as a part of the School’s commitment to developing the next generation of lawyers with global perspectives. The internship also enables our students to acquire the experience of working and living aboard.
This year, 10 students from the JD and LLB programmes were selected for the Legal Placement.
The law firms and organisations participating in the programme include:...
Professor Zhu Guobin, Professor of School of Law of City University of Hong Kong and Director of Human Rights Law and Policy Forum, has been appointed by the Department of Education of Guangdong Province as the Vice Chairman of Steering Committee of Undergraduate Legal Education of Guangdong Province for the period from August 2019 to August 2023. The appointment is a recognition of his professional achievements....
The 2019 Hong Kong Law Fair was successfully held on 7 September 2019 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai. CityU Law School joined the fair together with other local law schools, legal institutions, as well as major international and local law firms. An information booth was set up to display the detailed information of respective programmes offered by our School....
More than 450 new students from LLB, JD, PCLL, LLM, and LLMArbDR programmes attended the CityU Law School’s orientation on 27 August 2019. The orientation included a series of activities meant to introduce new students to the University’s resources, facilities, and opportunities, and to help them get prepared for their new start....
The RGC has recently announced the results of the 2019-20 funding exercise of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS). The School of Law continued to succeed in developing a strong research culture and has obtained six law research grants which indicates that we have a high quality research environment....
