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Directions in Legal Education conference

January 27, 2018

The Faculty of Law at CUHK will host a conference on legal education, Directions in Legal Education, on 1st – 2nd June 2018. The keynote speakers are Professors Paul Maharg (http://paulmaharg.com/bio/) and Julian Webb (http://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/julian-webb) and we already have an interesting range of speakers from Hong Kong and from around the world. We are interested in all aspects of legal education and would be interested to receive calls from academics and from anyone with interest and experience of legal education both at university level and in the workplace. The call for papers is available at the following link https://www.learning.law.cuhk.edu.hk/call-for-papers-2018

Michael Lower

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Professor Steven Gallagher – Property Law seminar

December 15, 2017

Professor Steven Gallagher will give a seminar Civil Evidence and Presumptions: When is a gift a trust? in January 2018 (first in the Graduate Law Centre at Bank of America and later on the Shatin campus.

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Professor Paul Maharg speaking at CUHK Faculty of Law

September 25, 2017

Professor Paul Maharg will be giving two seminars at CUHK Faculty of Law this week about Legal Education. Professor Maharg is a leading scholar in this area and also has enormous experience in terms of advising policymakers and of implementing reform and innovation.

Professor Maharg will speak at the Shatin campus on 27th September at 12.45pm. He will speak at the Graduate Law Centre in the Bank of America Tower on 28th September at 12.45 pm.

Click here for details of the 27th September seminar on the Shatin campus

Click here for details of the 28th September seminar in the Bank of America Tower.

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Gifts by elderly parents to children – SCMP

February 14, 2017

The law of undue influence can come into play when elderly parents are persuaded to make substantial lifetime gifts to their children. My article about this has just appeared in the SCMP. Here is the link.

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Student control of the means of knowledge production

December 16, 2016

I gave a talk about the innovations in my Land Law 1 course this year at the CUHK Teaching and Learning expo on 16th December 2016. Here are the slides.

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Article – Marriage and acquisition of a beneficial interest in the family home in Hong Kong

December 8, 2016

Just published: M. Lower, ‘Marriage and the acquisition of a beneficial interest in the family home in Hong Kong.’ [2016] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 453 – 465

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