Professor Wolff was interviewed by the organisers of EduTECH Asia 2018. The text of the interview is contained in Creating the Future of Education. Professor Wolff reflects on technology enhanced learning in legal education and the new pedagogical possibilit...

New teaching project: the Internet and the Law

This blogpost is an introduction to a new teaching project in the CUHK Faculty of Law led by me, Professor Angela Daly. The project will involve me and the students taking the LLB elective the Internet and the Law cou...

Text of The Hon. Mr Justice Joseph Fok, PJ's Opening Address 

Introduction

To say that universities are about knowledge is a statement of the obvious. Universities are centres of knowledge production; this is the organizing principle for university work. This is clearly true of the research and knowledge-transfer work carrie...

Implementing the communities of inquiry approach in a Land Law course

I have been engaged in an action research project to implement a simple design to create classroom communities of inquiry in an undergraduate law course. The context is a third year course (Land...

‘at its core, education is about active engagement of students with inherited knowledge, with new research, and with more senior academic guides and mentors. Of course, education is also about preparing students for life in the wider world, for careers, and for m...

 “Curiouser and Curiouser!”  Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, or Lewis Carroll, was a well-respected mathematics tutor at Christ Church College, Oxford. He felt compelled to critique the educational paradigm of his day...

The Faculty will host a Conference on Teaching and Learning in Law -'Directions in Legal Education 2018' on 1 – 2 June 2018. The conference will provide a space for dialogue exploring innovative approaches in legal education and considering future directions.

The...

Serving as office managing partner with an international law firm and Asia general counsel at a multinational corporation might be an unlikely path to university teaching, but for Mr. Mitchell Stocks, higher education is a fitting destination to help law students...

This is the second post of the blog series based on our conversation with Professor Paul Maharg during his visit to Hong Kong in September 2017. In the first blog post, Professor Maharg talked about the potentially transformative effect of the move to an online p...