Reading up on the law
CityU’s School of Law grants its students access to a wide array of careers in the legal profession and beyond.
Offering a well-established curriculum, the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) School of Law gives students taking the JD (juris doctor) and PCLL (postgraduate certificate in laws) the skills to succeed as solicitors or barristers. The course also prepares students for successful roles in the world of business.
The intensive one-year PCLL is a prerequisite for anyone planning to enter the legal profession in Hong Kong as a trainee solicitor or pupil barrister in chambers.
The programme includes required and elective courses covering advocacy, negotiation, drafting skills, litigation and transactional practice.
According to Stella Leung Suk-yee, PCLL programme director and senior teaching consultant at CityU’s School of Law, the aim is also to prepare students for situations they will face in the world of corporate and commercial practice. These challenges may initially be quite unfamiliar.
Students from CityU’s School of Law are trained with real-life legal cases before they venture into the world of corporate and commercial practice.
“We try to use real-life examples students can relate to in the classroom,” Leung says.