CUHK Faculty of Law: Pioneering Legal Education with Global Impact and Research Excellence
- Gulf
- May 30, 2025
Distinguished academic excellence
Since its establishment in 2004, Cuhk’s law has become a truly international faculty, with academic staff of approximately 20 jurisdictions. Excellence in the investigation of the Faculty has been constantly recognized, leading the mastery of Hong’s Law in the 2014 and 2020 UGC research evaluation exercises. Its global position was even more consolidated at the last World University of QS 2025, A.Th Position worldwide.
Innovative programs portfolio
The Faculty sacrifices an integral range of postgraduate programs, including the degrees of Master of Specialized Laws (LLM) that respond to evolving global legal challenges. The LLM in energy and environmental law (LEL), was launched in 2018-2019, is erected as the pioneer program of Hong Kong in Energy Safety and Sustainability Law. The new incorporation, LLM in Legal History (LLH), introduced in 2022-2023, representatives as one of the few world programs dedicated to the investigation of transnational legal history.
Impact of global research and collaboration
The faculty’s commitment to excellence in research is exemplified through its specialized research centers. The Center for Comparative and Transnational Law (CCTL) supports collaborative research through eight specialized groups, while the Center for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (Clinds) promotes innovative research in law and technology.
The overall scope of the faculty extends to prestigious associations, including dual programs with the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, offering students the opportunity to win two degrees of world class institutes in four years.
Promote global legal talent
The international faculty perspective is reflected in its various agencies, representation of some 60 countries and regions. It also sacrifices to students valuable opportunities and resources to collaborate with academics in several fields, deepening their understanding and opening new ways for their work. The doctoral candidate Tajra Smajic, a provision of the Hong Kong PhD Scholarship scheme (HKPFS), Fum Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressed her appreciation for her experience in the Law Faculty of the Faculty of Ocean of Cuhk: “Dynamic research dynamics of the sea and margin. Contexts of the real world.
Tajra Postgraduate Student Life in Cuhk has been remarkable: (left) participating in the summer school in Genova, (center) graduating with a master’s degree in law in international economic law and (on the right) having a summer internship in the international tribunal of the law of the Sea
Faculty experts such as Professor Anatole Boute continue to shape global legal discourse. Professor Boute, specialization in Energy, Environmental and Investment Law, received the prestigious Richard MacRory Award for the best article 2021 of the Journal of Environmental Law, Oxford University Press. His research has proven national evidence of the energy authorities that contributed to a better regulation of the energy market in Central Asia while improving the cost of clean energy supply.
Professor Anatole Boute’s research has contributed greatly to the regulation of the energy market in Central Asia
Looking towards the future, Cuhk’s law is still committed to the advancement of legal education and research while fostan global associations that prepare the next generation of legal professionals for an increasingly interconnected world.
For more information about Cuhk Law’s postgraduate programs, visit: https://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions/programmme/law.
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