This course aims to:

1. promote a global perspective on legal education among students with a view to enhancing their knowledge, understanding and skills relating to substantive legal issues;
2. provide students an experience of studying and living in a foreign jurisdiction with a view to understanding their legal system, culture and different institutional settings;
3. inculcate a sense of global understanding among law students which will benefit them in their professional careers;
4. create a global partnership among law schools in different parts of the world with a view to developing new perspectives on legal education;
5. identify courses and programmes on the basis of shared understanding and adaptability of the students of CityU to the particular foreign jurisdiction.

This being an umbrella course, the course codes of seminars offered under this course will be labeled as LW4674A, LW4674B and so on.
Students should have completed year one of LLB.