Law Exploration & Advancement Programme (LEAP) – Summer School for High School Students 2026

Professor Stephen Hall joined the School (now Faculty) of Law as a foundation member in 2005, after serving as an Associate Professor in the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong for three years. He was foundation director of the first Juris Doctor (JD) programmes in Hong Kong, at both City University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Hall is a fellow of C. W. Chu College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he also teaches a class on the origins of Western civilisation. Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales for six years where he was also Director of the European Law Centre. Professor Hall has been admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Australia, and practised law with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department for nine years mainly in the areas of administrative law and judicial review. Professor Hall’s areas of research and teaching interest are: contract law, international law, the traditions of the natural law and the common law, European and Roman legal history and European Union law. He is always happy to talk to students, over a cup of tea, about any of these topics and the connections between them.