Annual Report 2006–07

學術發展 Academic Development 41 The School of Law commenced its first teaching year with quality intakes of 50 undergraduate students on the four-year LLB programme, and more than 350 postgraduate students on four self-financed taught programmes comprising the Juris Doctor and the three Masters of Laws in Common Law, International Economic Law and Chinese Business Law. It also admitted its first group of four research students who will pursue MPhil/PhD degrees. The new School was formally inaugurated on 9 November 2006 in the Dedication Ceremony officiated by The Honourable Chief Justice Andrew Li, and graced with the presence of many dignitaries and friends of the legal profession. The Founding Honorary Professors were also formally appointed. They are Dr. the Honourable Sir T. L. Yang, former Chief Justice of Hong Kong and Chairman of the School’s Executive Committee, The Right Honourable The Lord Woolf of Barnes, former Chief Justice of England & Wales, and Prof. Sir David Williams, Emeritus Vice- Chancellor and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law of Cambridge University, and Chairman of the Law Academic Advisory Committee. • • The School has established the Sir T. L. Yang Society to provide intellectual, scholarly and social support for students of the School of Law. The society has developed a distinguished professional mentor programme to give undergraduate students the opportunity to meet and receive advice from distinguished members of the legal community. Students have also received sponsorship to take part and excel in mooting competitions. A group of first-year law students became the first Hong Kong team to receive commendations for both oral and written submissions to the Annual Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition in March 2007. Together with the Department of Sociology, the School organized an international conference on ‘Crime, Law and Justice in Chinese Societies: Global Challenges and Local Responses’ in March 2007. The conference attracted nearly 100 participants from local and Australia, China, the UK and the USA. The school co-hosted the Society Sports Meet with the Law Society of Hong Kong, which was a major event in celebration of its centenary. Over the three-day period, more than 300 legal practitioners from various mainland provinces and Taiwan took part in competitions on the University sports grounds. • • • 法律學院成立典禮 Dedication ceremony of the School of Law 國際學術研討會 「中國社會的犯罪、法律與司法— 全球化挑戰及本土回應」 Joint conference on ‘Crime, Law and Justice in Chinese Societies: Global Challenges and Local Responses’