University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law


The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law is one of the 11 faculties and schools at the University of Hong Kong. Founded in 1969 as the Department of Law, it is the oldest law school in Hong Kong. HKU Law is consistently ranked among the top law schools in the world. In 2019, HKU Law was ranked 18th on the QS World Rankings and 22nd on the Times Higher Education World Rankings.

History

The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong is the longest established law school in Hong Kong. First established in 1969 as a Department of Law in the Faculty of Social Sciences, it became a School of Law with an autonomous Board of Studies in 1978, and a Faculty of Law on 1 July 1984. Today, the Faculty has 1,500 students and over 60 full-time academic staff from about 17 jurisdictions.
With the help of Henry Litton, Gerald de Basto, and other distinguished legal practitioners, the Faculty has taken part in publishing the Hong Kong Law Journal since 1971 as well as the student-run law review Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies since 1994. The Faculty also has a strong tradition in international moot court competitions, having won moots such as the Hong Kong Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot and LAWASIA Moot in the past.

Degrees offered

The Faculty has two departments, the Department of Law and the Department of Professional Legal Education, and four research centres. The Faculty offers a 4-year Bachelor of Laws program, three 5-year double-degree programs: BSocSc - LLB, BBA - LLB, and BA - LLB in conjunction with other faculties of the university, a 2-year intensive JD program, a professional qualification program, and a variety of LLM programs focusing on human rights, Chinese law, corporate law and financial law, information technology and intellectual property, and arbitration. It also offers various research postgraduate programs, including MPhil, PhD and SJD.
Six members of the Faculty have been conferred the honour of Teaching Fellows by the University, rendering it one of the Departments with the largest number of Teaching Fellows in the University. The Faculty also plays host to many internationally distinguished scholars and academic conferences each year. The Faculty works closely with the legal profession. Its PCLL programme provides the entry qualification to the legal profession in Hong Kong.

Notable alumni

The Faculty has a strong tradition of producing exemplary private practitioners, as well as being represented in all three branches of government.
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