LW4667 - City University Law Review
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Offering Academic Unit | School of Law | Credit Units | 3 | Course Duration | Two Semesters | Pre-cursor(s) | | Equivalent Course(s) | | Course Offering Term*: | Semester A 2024/25, Semester B 2024/25
Semester A 2025/26 (Tentative), Semester B 2025/26 (Tentative) |
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice |
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Course Aims
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This course grants credit to Editorial Board members of the CityU Law Review (CityU LR) for their production responsibilities on the Board and for researching, writing, and editing a scholarly work. The course aims to do the following:
- cultivate the skills necessary to identify an appropriate topic, find relevant research materials to develop and support an argument, and draft an original, scholarly work of publishable quality;
- develop students' ability to peer review classmates' work constructively;
- reinforce students' understanding of research ethics by practicing and enforcing good citation practices;???
- train students to review scholarly submissions, edit submissions, and publish a law journal;
- enable students to explore other activities related to producing a law journal, such as coordinating with the publisher, marketing, and organising academic conferences; and
- enable students to explore, as part of a team, what publishing a law journal entails.
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Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)
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Continuous Assessment: 100% |
The use of Generative AI tools is prohibited in the assessment.
To pass this course, students must obtain a minimum aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 30% in each of the above assessment tasks/activities.
Grading will follow the Law School's adopted standards: A+ (85 or above), A (80-84), A- (75-79),... F (below 40). |
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Detailed Course Information
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LW4667.pdf
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