A Brief Comparison of Hong Kong Online Databases Guide

The Law Library has created A Brief Comparison of Hong Kong Online Databases guide to help users understand the scope, contents and features of some major Hong Kong Law databases (Lexis Advance, Westlaw Asia, Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII), Legal Reference System (Judiciary), and Hong Kong e-Legislation (HKeL). 

If interested, please visit: https://libguides.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/law/infoguide/database/hkcompare 

A Brief Comparison of Hong Kong Online Databases

The “China, Law and Development” Project

The “China, Law and Development” is a project funded by a European Research Council, which studies China’s impact on global economic law and legal systems. The research areas of the project include: conflict of law, modernization of the PRC legal system, China’s impact on international commercial law, China’s impact on the legal and regulatory systems of host states, dispute resolution and legal services, regional legal harmonization, and the method and theory of a comparative law and social sciences through the view of global China.

For more details and publications of this project, please visit: https://cld.web.ox.ac.uk/home

The "China, Law and Development" project homepage

 

Penn Law's Global Women's Leadership Project (GWLP)

Under the auspices of Under Secretary General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, The Global Women's Leadership Project (GWLP) at Penn Law was created to provide a clearing house of information on laws that govern women's status in the family, as the first phase of the UN Women's Family Law database.

Penn Law’s Global Women’s Leadership Project (GWLP) aims to provide research for UNESCO and UN Women in support of their work on women, peace and justice and women’s human rights. 

For more information, please visit https://www.law.upenn.edu/international/global-womens-leadership-project/

The resource can also been found at our International Family Law's Research Guides and Useful Websites - International Law.

The Global Women's Leadership Project (GWLP) at Penn Law

Hong Kong e-Legislation (HKeL) Update

As of 1 July 2018, the Hong Kong e-Legislation (HKeL) has become the only government legislation website. The previous Bilingual Laws Information System (http://blis.gov.hk) has been discontinued.

CUHK's Law Library has created a guide to show you how to use HKeL, please visit: https://libguides.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/law/infoguide/database/hkel

Hong Kong e-Legislation (HKeL)

HKeL Guide by CUHK Law Library

InfoLit for U: Information Literacy MOOC

About InfoLit for U: Information Literacy MOOC
Do you know what is the most critical skill to a successful university study, conduct outstanding research, and your future careers?

It is all related to an important competence: Information Literacy (InfoLit, IL).
InfoLit for U, a self-paced, non-credit bearing MOOC designed by the library of all 8 UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong, is suitable for students in all years of undergraduate study.

Structure of this MOOC (1.5 - 2 hours per module)
The focal and the disciplinary modules of this MOOC are designed to help you become analytical, wise, and creative information user for effective learning at the university and tackle professional challenges after graduation.

Focal Module
In the focal module "Not only search skills: What is InfoLit for U study & career?", you will learn how to use information for university-level inquiry works through 5 sections:

• Think & plan the "Info Needs" of your research
• Don't find answers: Search for ideas to develop ideas
• Not just filter: Evaluate ideas to form new ideas
• Never list them: Connect ideas to create your own idea
• Stay hungry: Join & learn from communities 

Discipline modules
The 8 discipline-related elective modules, each designed by our participating university respectively, dive deeper into the journey and help you find, evaluate, and create high-quality outputs for tasks relate to the following disciplines:

• Arts & Humanities
• Business & Economics
• Education
• Engineering
• Health Sciences
• Law
• Science
• Social Sciences

Furthermore, you can obtain an achievement certificate issued by this MOOC if you successfully complete the “Check your understanding” questions of [the focal module +  at least 1 of the discipline-related modules] with 70% or above correct rate.

Requirements
This course is for all university students,as well as senior secondary students who want a smooth transition to learn at the university.
There is no entry requirement.

For more information, please visit: https://edx.keep.edu.hk/courses/course-v1:UGCULibs+IL1001+2017_01/about

InfoLit for U

New Blog for the CUHK's Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has launched of a new blog site to support teaching and learning: https://www.learning.law.cuhk.edu.hk

This blog can foster the exchange of ideas on how to improve teaching and learning and about legal education generally. It will feature interviews with teachers about their teaching practice and with scholars working in the legal education field.

Please subscribe to the blog for the latest updates.

Blog - CUHK's Faculty of Law

International Tribunals Web Archive Launched

The Law Library of Congress has recently launched the International Tribunals Web Archive.

Collection Period: June 13, 2014 to Current

'The “International Tribunals Archive”( ITA) is an archive organized and managed by the Library of Congress with the purpose of digitally storing relevant websites hosting information about the most important international tribunals created since World War II.'

For details, please visit: https://www.loc.gov/collections/international-tribunals-web-archive/

The International Tribunals Archive (ITA)