The Department of Extra-mural Studies starts offering part-time evening courses which led to the external Bachelor of Laws (LLB) of the University of London.

Enrolment Form from 1967, where the study of law was initially offered at HKU in the Department of Extra-mural Studies

Zelman Cowen, C L Pannam (Melbourne) and A G Guest (Oxford), submit a Report of Advisers on Law Studies to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir Lindsay Ride.

	Letter from Maurice Heenan, the then Attorney General to the University’s Registrar in 1965, supporting the establishment of the Law Faculty.
	Sir Lindsay Ride, Vice-Chancellor of HKU (1949 – 1964)

A Working Party chaired by a senior judge recommends the establishment of an LLB degree at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) leading towards a Hong Kong professional qualification.

Legal education in Hong Kong : reports of the 1966 and 1969 Working Parties on Legal Education edited by Professor Dafydd Evans in 1974

The University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC) agrees in principle to establish a Department of Law at HKU.

The then Chief Justice, Sir Michael Hogan and the Vice-Chancellor appointed a Working Party to consider the professional stage of legal education in Hong Kong.

	Overseas Chinese Daily News (華僑日報) reported on 19 April 1969 that the Department of Law would be established in summer
	Sir Michael Hogan, Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1955-1970).

The Department of Law is established under the Faculty of Social Science, offering a 3 year full-time undergraduate programme leading to the honours degree of LLB. Dafydd Evans is the first Head of the Department. There are initially only 3 academic staff (Dafydd Evans, John Rear and Bernard Downey, later to be joined by Alan Smith). The initial intake is 40 students and the Department is located at 154-158 Caine Road, a 3-storey block of flats built in 1921 as police officers’ married quarters.

	154-158, Caine Road, Hong Kong.
	The First batch in 1969 including the 3 academic staff and Mr Malcolm Quinn the Law Librarian.

Following recommendations by a second working party, the one-year PCLL (Postgraduate Certificate of Laws) is introduced at the University of Hong Kong as a local professional qualification leading to legal practice.

The Law Association of HKU publishes Justitia, a journal run by law students (until 1986).

	Justitia, a journal run by law students.
	Overseas Chinese Daily News (華僑日報) reported on 24 February 1972 that the number of HKU law students rose to 115.

The School of Law becomes a Faculty of Law. Dafydd Evans is elected the first Dean. The Faculty has two departments: the Department of Law, headed by Robert Allcock, and the Department of Professional Legal Education, headed by Peter Willoughby. The number of academic staff exceeds 30 and LLB intake is over 100 students.

	Mr Robert Allcock
	Professor Peter Willoughby in 1994.

Introduction of a Master of Laws programme (LLM). The LLM focuses initially on Chinese and international trade law. In later years other specialist streams are introduced.

Yash Ghai is appointed the first Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law.

	Professor Yash Ghai
	Sir Y K Pao

Peter Wesley Smith succeeds Peter Rhodes as Dean.

The Eric Au Memorial Lecture is endowed in memory of the late Eric Au (LLB 1979, PCLL 1980), a strong advocate of the use of Chinese in Law.

From left: Professor Johannes Chan SC (Hon), Peter Wesley Smith and Professor Albert Chen in 1999.