Profile
By the end of the course, participants be able to:
- Explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/ business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China; and
- Review theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc.
What You'll Learn
This course is offered under the Faculty of Law's Graduate Coursework Programmes in Corporate & Financial Services Law.
This coruse aims to explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China. How has China been able to offset institutional weaknesses at home while achieving impressive economic results worldwide? Have China's experiences indicated an unorthodox model as captured in the term 'Beijing Consensus'? To what extent is this model different from East Asian models and conventional thinking in economic growth? This course reviews theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc.
Minimum Entry Requirement
A good Bachelor's or Juris Doctor degree in Law