Legal English

15 September 2023

Empowering Novices to become Experts: Impact of the Legal English Project 培養初學者成爲專家:法律英語項目之影響

Learning ‘legal English’, the specialised language that students encounter in law school, is particularly challenging. Law students must learn to use English forms and structures in such a way as to meet the expectations of members of the legal academic community, consistent with the conventions of the legal discipline. Professor Christoph Hafner, Associate Professor of CityU’s Department of English, formed an interdisciplinary project team with legal and language experts in local and overseas universities, in order to develop a digital multimedia resource for legal English based on an analysis of the language needs of Hong Kong law students.
24 July 2025

AI Literacy in the Legal Context. From Legal Education to Practice (Part I)

The CityUHK Department of English (EN) and the CityUHK School of Law (SLW) convened a half-day conference titled “AI literacy in the legal context: From legal education to practice” on 8 May 2025, discussing AI in legal practice. Click here to read the article.