by Steven Gallagher (CUHK Law) & Michael Lower (CUHK Law) Introduction Law Schools, like everyone else, have been forced to respond to the Co-Vid 19 lockdown. Lectures and tutorials that would have taken place in campus classrooms have been replaced by Zoom sessions. Many complain that this online replica of face-to-face teaching is a poor substitute for ‘the real thing’ because of the lack of social presence. It does, indeed, seem that universities have responded by ‘just go

by Angela Daly (CUHK Law) 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 course co-creating open access innovative teaching materials on the subject. The 13 week course will run for the first time in January 2019. The course will commence with some traditional lectu

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 Law I). In 2016 – 17, for example, there were sixty seven students. Teaching involved thirteen lectures of an hour and three quarters and thirteen tutorials. The cohort was divided into four smaller groups for the t

‘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 making a contribution to the community.’ (Prof Stephen Toope, The future of UK universities) It seems to me that this extract from a blog post of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge captures, in a very s

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 bridge the gap between theory and practice. Could you introduce us to your experience as a practicing lawyer and a legal educator? I am new to legal education. I started teaching part-time at City University of Hong