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From 4-7 August 2015, the CUHK Faculty of Law conducted its Inaugural PhD Candidate Summer Workshop. Students from around the world, attending law schools as diverse and impressive as Oxford, NYU and Victoria-Wellington, joined us for four days of lectures, workshops, tours and social activities. The Workshop had two main objectives.
First, it gave us the chance to show potential candidates where we educate our students and conduct our world-class research. We wanted them to see why we are so proud of our campus, our law faculty, and all the great people who make it special, including the academic, administrative and library staffs and, most importantly, the students themselves. We felt that a visit to our campus would help persuade them that CUHK Law is the ideal place to earn their PhD in Laws degree. Second, along the way, we were able to help students develop and hone their ideas for a Research Proposal and get a good start in writing it. The Research Proposal is a crucial part of the application to our PhD (or MPhil) in Laws Programme. We felt we succeeded on all these counts.
Through all this, we also wanted the Workshop participants to have a great time. Once again, mission accomplished! In addition to meet-and-greet sessions, panels, lectures and workshops, we organized tours of our building, campus, Graduate Law Centre on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong’s High Court, and Hong Kong itself. We had a series of great meals organized for participants. And we finished with lunch and a keynote address by a living legend in Hong Kong legal circles, Judge Kemal Bokhary, Queen’s Counsel, one of three Permanent Judges of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal from its inception in 1997 until he retired in October 2012, and known as the “conscience of the court.”
Workshop participants were guided through the week by a selected group of professors, administrative staff and student ambassadors. They were provided with student housing that gave them easy access to campus during their stay.
Participants hailed from all over the world, including nations from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and Europe (representing eleven different nationalities and countries as diverse as South Korea, Hungary, New Zealand and Pakistan). And they had diverse research interests, such as human rights, investment law, criminal law, international finance law, environmental law, jus ad bellum, trade law, intellectual property, tax law, international criminal law, comparative law and the law of war. Feedback we have received suggests that CUHK Law’s Inaugural PhD Candidate Summer Workshop was a smashing success on many levels. We look forward to another great experience with it in 2016!
Below please find some highlights of the event:
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