Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2007

The New School of Law 11 Mentorship Programme Being a law student and being a lawyer involve very different routines and demands. To give students professional exposure, the school provides each LLB student with a distinguished professional mentor. This may be a judge, a barrister, a solicitor, or a distinguished individual in the general field of law in government or elsewhere. The students will be attached to these individuals for the length of their time at the school. The mentors will guide them on career choices, discuss their progress, and counsel them about different experiences. They will also come to the school for social events such as high table dinners. From time to time, the mentors will invite their mentees to their workplace so they can see by actual experience what it is like to work in an office or to go to court. Another benefit of this programme is it enables students to recognize the value of giving back to the community, and of being ethical in their approaches to their careers. The school’s honorary professors (from left): Dr. The Honourable Sir T.L. Yang, GBM, JP, former Chief Justice in Hong Kong; Prof. Sir David Williams, QC, DL, former Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; and The Right Honourable The Lord Woolf of Barnes, former Chief Justice of England and Wales, and currently a non- permanent member of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal