This course purports to offer advanced knowledge of comparative legal studies to PhD students. The FLL is strong in comparative law studies, which is also one of special strengths the FLL will further improve as part of FLL’s strategic development plan. The course is taught in the mode of group teaching. Experts of different legal systems will share their knowledge with students in a number of essential areas of legal studies, such as constitutional law, civil law, commercial law, criminal law, procedural law, tort law, administrative law and private international law. The specific legal systems to be presented may vary slightly depending on availability of experts in any given time, and the general legal systems to be covered in many countries.

CILO-1: Students will be able to distinguish the differences between civil law and common law systems. CILO-2: Students will be able to define systematically the legal systems of some representative countries. CILO-3: Students will be able to develop critical thinking on certain regulations or provisions in a certain county with the whole picture of the legal system of that country in mind. CILO-4: Students will be able to have better comprehension on how different countries develop different solution when encountered common issues.