Legal Research

Law School Looking West

By Simon Fodden

The Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia has concluded an agreement with their counterpart at the University of Hong Kong to offer a joint program that will give their graduates the opportunity to practice in both jurisdictions. From the press release:

The Faculties of Law at UBC and HKU will each accept up to five students per year, starting in 2009. All students enrolled in the program will be able to earn the law degrees required — subject to admission and completion of the professional course requirements — for law practice in an additional jurisdiction, that being Canada for HKU students and Hong Kong for UBC students.

The joint legal education program requires just one extra year of study with UBC?s LLB students completing four years instead of three and HKU law students completing six years instead of five.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).