28 November, 2019 The vagueness of the concept of privacy and the increasingly indistinct borders of the right to privacy endanger its viability. This unfortunate development undermines the (often competing) rights of free speech, security, and the administration of criminal justice. It will be suggested that such ambiguity and incoherence Read more…
25 November, 2019 News Headlines at present declare the abrogation of arms limitation treaties, the invasion and annexation of territories, foreign interventions in civil wars, with attempts at regime change and consequent massivehumanitarian and refugee crises. Increasing nationalist tensions challenge worldwide the idea of a global order. In addition there Read more…
22 November, 2019 Is China being transformed by international law, or is it the one doing the transforming? To seek answers to this question, this presentation examines key episodes in China’s interactions with the system of public international law before 1949. It notes a pattern of “reception and contention” that Read more…
News Prof. Stuart HARGREAVES quoted in Washington Post, Deutsche Welle, and Financial Times on judicial autonomy in Hong Kong. Read the full articles here:Washington PostDeutsche Welle (in German)Financial Times
News A new web browser Kuniao, which translates as “cool bird”, has been touted as providing Chinese internet users with a way to legally bypass the Great Firewall. Prof. Jyh-An LEE indicated that “while users might think they are bypassing the Great Firewall, they are actually just subjecting themselves to Read more…
18 November, 2019 The seminar will be postponed. The rescheduled date is to be announced. This talk will explore the influence of human rights on tax law in the EU. Previous case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has shown this influence in many different Read more…
News On 24th Oct 2019, Prof. Chin Leng LIM, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law, was invited to speak in Kuala Lumpur on current global trade frictions to approximately 1,000 participants comprising representatives of small and medium-sized and mid-tier companies, as well as Government-linked corporations, across all industrial sectors. The theme Read more…
Congratulations to our 564 students on being conferred their undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees! Read More
News Congratulations to the following CUHK LAW members on receiving University’s Teaching and Research Excellence Awards 2018. Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching AwardProfessor Lutz-Christian WOLFF, Faculty Dean and Wei Lun Professor of Law Research Excellence AwardProfessor Luke MARSH, Associate ProfessorProfessor Bryan MERCURIO, Simon F.S. Li Professor of Law Young Researcher AwardProfessor MIAO Miao Michelle, Read more…