A series of public lectures for the School of Law 35th Anniversary were held during November 2021 to March 2022.

→ “Law and the Metaverse” by Professor TAN Cheng-Han, SC (Dean and Chair Professor of Commercial Law, CityU School of Law)

→ “Government Responses to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” by Professor WAN Wai Yee (Associate Dean of Research and Internationalisation, CityU School of Law)

→ “WTO as A Social Contract” by Dr GUAN Wenwei (Associate Professor, CityU School of Law)

The Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA), the Centre for AI & Data Governance of the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law, and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Law jointly organized “ALSA Conference 2021: Law, Technology and Change” on 8 October 2021. A total of 22 proposals on a variety of topics were received and presented in five sessions: Challenges in Healthcare; Protecting Professional Services; Surveillance Society; Tech Transformation; and Data the New Gold. A good mix of more than 80 academics and professionals joining the Conference indicated the success of the event.

Dr Massimo LANDO cited by the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee

Dr Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN’s Research Has Made Changes in the Regulation Published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

CityU Virtual Undergraduate Open Day 2022

CityU School of Law Held Online Admission Talk for Postgraduate Programmes 2022 Entry

CityU School of Law Dean TAN Cheng-Han, SC Attending CTLS Executive Council with Leading Law Schools around the World

Julien CHAISSE, Manfred Elsig, Sufian Jusoh, & Andrew Lugg, ‘Drafting Investment Law: Patterns of Influence in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)’, (2022) 25(1) Journal ofInternational Economic Law 110-128

Thomas CROFTS & Jack BURKE, ‘Sexting in Hong Kong: a complex interplay between young people, technology, and law’, Asia Pacific Law Review (2022)
DING Chunyan, ‘Who are my parents? Determining parenthood of surrogate children under Chinese law’, Asia Pacific Law Review (2022), DOI:10.1080/10192557.2022.2045709
FANG Meng, ‘Shedding Any New Light? The WTO’s Latest Ruling in the US-China Solar Battle’ (2022) 17(1) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (forthcoming)
GUAN Wenwei, 'The Origin of Copyright: Expression as Knowing in Being and Copyright Onto-Epistemology', London: Routledge, 2021
HE Tianxiang, ‘Online Content Platforms, Copyright Decision-making Algorithms and Fundamental Right Protection in China’, (2022) 14 Law, Innovation and Technology 71-94
LAI Sin Chit Martin, ‘Incentivizing Private Antitrust Enforcement to Promote Leniency Applications: A Case Study of the United Kingdom’, (2022) 38(3) Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 247-318
LANDO Massimo, ‘Stability of Maritime Boundaries and the Challenge of Geographical Change: A Reply to Snjólaug Árnadóttir’, (2022) 35 Leiden Journal of International Law (published online,forthcoming in print)
LIU Qiao, ‘The Chinese Judicial Approach to CISG Article 25: A Uniformity Assessment’, in FrancescaBenatti, Sergio Garcia Long and Filippo Viglione (eds), The Transnational Sales Contract: 40 years influence of the CISG on national jurisdictions (Wolters Kluwer 2022) Ch 18, pp 459-485
PASCOE Daniel, ‘Hong Kong’s National Security Law: A Socialist Legal Transplant?’, (2022) The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law <https://academic.oup.com/cjcl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cjcl/cxac011/6541961?redirectedFrom=fulltext>
Elena SHERSTOBOEVA, “Legal Analysis of the Draft Laws of the Republic of Belarus ‘On Amending Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Media’ and ‘On Amending the Law of the Republic of Belarus ‘On Mass Events in the Republic of Belarus’”. Retrieved from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), (2021, June). <https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/5/a/490493_0.pdf>
TAN Cheng-Han, SC, ‘Vicarious Liability in the Law of Agency’ [2022] 2 Journal of Business Law 164-183
Michael TSIMPLIS, ‘Environmental Norms in Maritime Law’, Edward Elgar, December 2021
WAN Wai Yee, 'Schemes of Arrangement in Singapore: Empirical and Comparative Analyses', American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 94, issue 3, 2020 pp. 463-506
WANG Jiangyu, 'China and International Dispute Settlement: Implications of the South China Sea Arbitration', in Wenhua Shan, Sheng Zhang and Jinyuan Su (eds.), China And International Dispute Resolution In The Context Of The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative, pp. 280-316 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, November 2020)
WANG Shucheng, ‘The Judicial Document as Informal State Law: Judicial Lawmaking 617 in China’s Courts’, (2022) 48(3) Modern China 617-649
ZHU Guobin, ‘Hong Kong National Security Law: Jurisprudence and Practice’ [《香港国家安全法：法理與實踐》], in Chinese, co-edited with HAN Dayuan, WANG Jiangyu & HUANG Mingtao, Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (HK) Co. Ltd., Nov 2021, 291 pages

Dr Rimsky YUEN Kwok-keung, GBM, SC, JP (LLM 1997) is the former Secretary for Justice of the HKSAR Government. Dr. Yuen was conferred an honorary doctorate on 5 November 2021 by CityU in recognition of his significant contributions to education and the legal community. He became a barrister in 1987 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003. He served as the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association from 2007 to 2009 and was appointed as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of the HKSAR from 2006 to 2012. He then served as the Secretary for Justice from 2012 to 2018.

Ms Bonita CHAN Bow-ye (LLB 1991, PCLL 1992) was appointed to the CityU Court for a term of three years starting from 1 January 2022. Ms. Chan was in the first batch of law graduates of CityU in 1991 and was for many years the chairlady of the CityU Law School Alumni Association. She was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1994 and has since been in private practice for over 25 years. She is currently a partner at Anthony Siu & Co.

Mr Richard KHAW Wei-kiang, SC (LLB 1992, PCLL 1993) was appointed by the Judiciary as a Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. Mr Khaw was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1993. He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2016 and as Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court for periods from 2018 to 2020.