Project Objectives

This project was conceived as the first part of a 4-year longitudinal film study of the Founding Students of the Law School in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The first set of films of the LLB students during the first two years (2006-2008) of the cycle is being used to develop appropriate teaching quality assurance mechanisms and to contribute to the current research on the culture and values of legal education and its impact on law students in Hong Kong.

Description of process and deliverables

• LLB students were filmed in October 2006, May 2007, May 2008 and October 2009 and we worked with CLEAR on teaching quality assurance mechanisms
• Taking the First Steps [January 2007] – film of the LLB student experiences in the first year
• Reflections on the Vision of the School of Law – An Interview with Professor McConville, a short film [January 2008]
• Law Faculty Research Seminar in January 2008 conducted with Professor Scully-Hill as part of the School’s Teaching Quality Audit
• 20 copies of the film Reflections on the Vision of the School of Law – An Interview with Professor McConville were submitted as part of the School of Law’s documentation to the University Grants Committee Quality Audit Committee in February 2008
• October 2009 – Presentation at CUHK’s Teaching and Learning Expo on 23 October 2009 presenting a paper and film of the first year LLB 2006-2007 Student Voices

Evaluation of outcomes

As a result of the first 3 sets of interviews with students we focused on five important specific issues 1) the maturation process, 2) student diversity, 3) learning law in a second language, 4) student experiences in the broader University, and 5) the matching of student goals and experiences in the Faculty of Law. These will be examined in the edited film of the interviews 2006-2009.

Dissemination of results & deliverables

The experience of this film is likely to be widely disseminated in due course.