Postgraduate Studies in Law
Introduction
The Faculty of Law is the leading law school in the territory and has a cherished heritage. It is ranked amongst the best in the Asia-Pacific region and is highly regarded for providing quality legal education and life-long learning opportunities.
Building on its strong tradition of teaching and research in the common law and prominent professional and community, our Faculty, as a regional centre of excellence in China and the Asia-Pacific Region, aspires to be a world class law school that meets the highest standards of international excellence in every dimension and to join the ranks of the best law schools internationally.
The Faculty of Law considers the study of law as a training of minds and character, and a cultivation of sophisticated intellectual and practical problem-solving skills. The Faculty is committed to producing graduates capable of meeting the legal, political and social challenges of the 21st century, especially in our endeavour to uphold the rule of law in Hong Kong and China.
Hence, it is our mission to train not just first rate legal professionals, who will serve the community with the highest caliber and integrity cultivated through law programmes that are intellectually rigorous and socially responsive, but also leaders with broad international exposures, vision and commitment to the community and the humanitarian causes of mankind.
The law school was established in 1969 and matured into the Faculty of Law in 1984. Since its establishment, the Faculty of Law has become the breeding ground for some of the most distinguished legal professionals and community leaders in Hong Kong. While most of our undergraduates have proceeded to study the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (the qualification for entry into the legal profession in Hong Kong, either as solicitors or barristers), a considerable number of them have become senior figures serving the business, public service and other sectors. Among them are judges at the highest level of court, Senior Counsel, leading practitioners, legislators, political party leaders, cabinet members, chairpersons of statutory bodies, senior civil servants, leading journalists, committed philanthropists, artists and not to mention leading academics and many others contributing to the well being of the community in many different ways.
The Faculty presently organized into two departments (the Department of Law and the Department of Professional Legal Education), employs nearly 60 full-time teachers from more than 17 jurisdictions around the world. In September 2005 the Faculty had about 400 undergraduates doing the LLB degrees and mixed-degrees. 300 PCLL students, and about 280 full-time and part-time postgraduate students.