LLB @ City University Law School

15 October 2016

Event Rundown

Programme Leaders’ sharing

Q & A Session

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Common Questions

Admission requirements

Admission quota

Admission interviews

Job opportunities of LLB graduates

How to qualify as a solicitor or barrister

in HK

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LLB at CityU Law School

Full-time UGC funded 4 year LLB Programme – (JUPAS Code:1061)

Proposed intake quota – 60

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LLB at CityU Law School Contd.

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Pablo Picasso,

The Actor (1904-05)

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Paul

Leffman

Hugo Perls/

Paul Robenberg

Thelma Chrysler Foy

Thru NY Gallery

$13,200

(1937)

$22,500

(1941)

Gift

(1952)

Title

Secure title?

Defeasible

title?

Purchase

… in good faith without notice of defect in title

Donation

Foy

Perle

LeffmanDuress - ?

Secure title?

Relationship with

contract? Secure title?

Relationship with contract?

LLB at CityU Law School Contd.

Career Options

Join the legal profession as solicitor or barrister(after doing PCLL & further training)

Private & public sector

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LLB at CityU Law School Contd.

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Admission Requirements

An applicant must satisfy the following:

1) General entry requirements of CityU

For further details, visit:

http://www.admo.cityu.edu.hk/

2) In addition to satisfying CityU’s General Entrance Requirements, applicant should achieve Level 5 or above in English Language

For further details, visit: http://www.admo.cityu.edu.hk/jupas_hkdse/entreq

LLB at CityU Law School Contd.

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Admission Interviews

o Interview will be in the form of a group discussion

on a current topic

o Interview scheduled tentatively for HKDSE

students in July after the HKDSE results

announcement

LLB at CityU Law School Contd.

Law School Admission Scholarship*

Maximum value of the scholarship is up to HK$60,000

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HK

LLB @ CityU – Experience the Difference

Globalised Learning Environment

HK

China Legal Placement

G-LEAP

International

Mooting Competitions

Experience the Difference Contd.

1) Global Legal Education & Awareness Project

(G-LEAP)

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In addition to semester-long exchanges, you could

spend about one month to study law courses on an

intensive basis at reputed foreign law schools

Experience the Difference Contd.

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University College,

Oxford, July 2016

Monash University, May 2016

Experience the Difference Contd.

2) Overseas Exchange Opportunities

Opportunities to go on overseas exchange at

universities in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe

and the US for one semester

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Experience the Difference Contd.

3) Legal Placement

First law school in Hong Kong to offer a credit-bearing Legal Placement course

Opportunity to gain practical work experience inlocal or international law firms, corporations and banks

Opportunity to obtain invaluable experience throughinternships in the People’s Courts of the diverseprovinces of China

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Experience the Difference Contd.

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Legal Placement (Mainland)

Experience the Difference Contd.

4) Mooting Opportunities

To develop advocacy skills of students, the Law

School offers mooting course & also participates in

several international mooting competitions

We provide extensive academic & economic

support to students

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Experience the Difference Contd.

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Susan J. Ferrell

Intercultural Human Rights

Moot Court Competition

(29 - 31 January 2016)

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Championship

Best Memorial Awards

(Applicant & Claimant)

Best Oralist

Second Best Oralist

Third Best Oralist

Fifth Best Oralist

Experience the Difference Contd.

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The 2016 Philip C. Jessup

International Law Moot Court

Competition

Hong Kong Regional Round

(20 February 2016)

Best Respondent Memorial

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Experience the Difference Contd.

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The Vis (East) Pre-Moot Hong

Kong and The 13th Annual

Willem C. Vis (East) International

Commercial Arbitration Moot

(6 - 13 March 2016)

Honorable Mention for Eric Bersten Award Best

Claimant Memoranda

Honorable Mention for Fali Nariman Award Best

Respondent Memoranda

He Yi: Honorable Mention (Neil Kaplan Award

for Best Oralists)

Ranked 10th out of 115 teams after General

Rounds

Eighth Finalist for the David Hunter Award for

Prevailing Team in Oral Arguments

Chang Ching Kwok Godfrey: Best Speaker Award

(The Vis (East) Pre-Moot Hong Kong)

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Experience the Difference Contd.

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The 6th Annual Budapest Pre-Moot

for the 23rd Annual Willem C. Vis

International Commercial

Arbitration Moot (14 - 17 March 2016)

Championship

(out of 52 teams)

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Experience the Difference Contd.

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The 23rd Annual Willem C. Vis

International Commercial Arbitration

Moot (18 - 24 March 2016)

Honorable Mention for Werner Melis

Award Best Memorandum for

Respondent

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Experience the Difference Contd.

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The International ADR Mooting

Competition 2016 (5 - 9 July 2016)

Quarter-Finalist

Achievements in International Mooting Competitions

Programme Directors

You may also contact:

Professor Alexander Loke (Programme Director)

Email: alex.loke@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: 3442 8175

Ms Alisa KWAN (Programme Associate Director)

Email: lwalisa@cityu.edu.hk

Tel.: 3442 7268

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