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.