Several courses are taught in rather different ways. Some are small enough to have seminars rather than formal lectures, and some courses are divided into smaller sections and work involves more student participation and less lecturing. In other words, the faculty is moving toward more active student involvement. Also many courses require or encourage the use of computers for learning or research. In many courses you will be expected to write essays that are designed to reinforce communication skills and encourage independent legal research.
Some students participate in international mooting competitions.
In most courses, written assignments are taken into account in the examination results. The Faculty has developed active programmes of exchanges and visits with law schools in the United Kingdom, China, countries of the Pacific Rim and elsewhere. It may be possible for a student to apply to study for a few months, or even a whole year, in another country, as part of The University of Hong Kong degree, or to study in a summer school in Hong Kong with students from other countries. We anticipate that a good number of students will be spending part of the 2001-2002 academic year studying in Australia, Canada, Singapore, the UK or the United States. Donors from the profession and past students or teachers have made generous donations for prizes, so that there is one for each subject and also some for good overall performance.