Date: 27Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: LECTURE 1: Legislation and the Rule of Law: LegCo’s first constitutional function and duty About the lectures: Bad governance hurts lives...
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Commerial Law, Corporate and Financial Law, Criminal Law, International and Comparative law
Prof. Yoshiaki Nomura: Conflict of law issues in loan transactions-What Law Governs Syndicated Loans in Global Transactions?
Date: 26Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: A syndicated loan is a loan facility, under single documentation, provided by several banks (possibly in different jurisdictions) as creditors...
Arbitration & Mediation, Commerial Law, Conference and Seminars, Court and Judiciary, International and Comparative law
Denise H. Wong: The Rise of the International Commercial Court-What Is It and Will It Work?
Date: 24Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: Up till now, transnational commercial disputes have primarily been resolved via international arbitration or by parties agreeing to submit to...
Conference and Seminars, Law and Medical ethics, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Tort
Prof. Roger Brownsword: Talk on Regulating Patient Safety-Is it Time for a Technological Response?
Date: 24Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: Following the publication of the report of the public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (centring on the deaths of...
Human Rights, Jurisprudence, Law and Technology and Intellectual Property, Peter Allan Memorial Lecture
Prof Lawrence Friedman: The Level Playing Field-Human Rights and Modern Legal Culture
Date: 13Feb 2014 SYNOPSIS: Peter Allan Memorial Lecture Legal culture is a crucial concept in the study of law and society. Three aspects of modern legal culture are...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, International and Comparative law, Public and Constitutional Law
Prof Jeremy Gans: Human Rights Scrutiny by Parliamentary Committees-The Experience in Australia
Date: 24Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: Australia remains one of the few countries to largely eschew judicially-enforced bills of rights. However, most Australian parliaments have...
Conference and Seminars, Human Rights, Public and Constitutional Law
Hoi Kong: Deliberative Democracy and the Law
Date: 23Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: In this presentation, I will argue that central tenets of theories of deliberative democracy are pertinent to jurisprudential issues and...
Conference and Seminars, Peter Willoughby Memorial Lecture
Dr Charles Harpum by The Peter Willoughby Memorial Lecture
Date: 21Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: Peter Willoughby Memorial Lecture 2014 Hong Kong has hitherto had a system of conveyancing based upon deeds registration. In 2004, Hong Kong...
Conference and Seminars, Law Teaching
Prof Jeremy Gans: Teaching Law Without Judgments – Some Innovations at Melbourne Law School
Date: 21Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: Two compulsory subjects in the University of Melbourne’s JD degree have teaching and assessment methods that largely eschew the tradition of...
Conference and Seminars, Jurisprudence, Public and Constitutional Law
Religion in Politics: Power and Empowerment
Date: 13Jan 2014 SYNOPSIS: This interfaith dialogue will explore the relationship between spiritual ethos and power in a number of world religions – Buddhism...