About the Programme
Introduced in 2004-05, the 4-Year LLB programme is designed to meet the changing demands on law graduates. It is devised by benchmarking against the law programmes offered by the best law schools in the world and has a number of features to ensure the competitiveness of our graduates. These salient features include:
Maximum flexibility: Specialisation and minors
The new programme offers the possibility of specialising in a particular area of law such as commercial law, Chinese law, international trade and economic law, so that our graduates would have an edge over law graduates elsewhere with general legal training. The programme also offers the possibility to do a minor in a non-law discipline offered in the University. For minors offered by other faculties to LLB students, please click here for further details.
Problem-based, student-centred learning
Teaching of the new curriculum will be largely problem-based and be conducted in a small group, student centred environment. Apart from legal knowledge, the curriculum will also focus on transferable skills such as communicative skills, analytical skills, research skills and problem solving skills.
Exchange with overseas universities
Students in the 3rd and 4th years’ of study will have an opportunity of going overseas as exchange students with a partner university. The University has entered into exchange agreements with over 200 leading universities worldwide and the Faculty has entered into other Faculty-specific exchange agreements with leading universities. Students may spend one semester or one academic year in one of these universities with scholarships.
Clinical programmes
Students will have the chance to participate in various clinical programmes and workshops to handle cases in real life. Students will also have a chance to participate in international mooting competitions.
Admission Requirements
Applicants seeking admission to the bachelor’s degrees offered by the HKU Faculty of Law must satisfy the University’s entrance requirements.
Assessment Method
The Faculty adopts a wide variety of assessment methods, ranging from in-hall exam, open book exam, take-home exam, research paper, coursework assessment, online assessment, oral presentation, mooting, simulation exercise etc. Most courses would have a component of research essay, though the weighting may vary from courses to courses.
Syllabuses
Please refer to link.