Online Legal Education in the Macao Special Administrative Region (China)

2022 General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Legal Education and Methodology

24 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2022

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Rostam J. Neuwirth

University of Macau - Faculty of Law

Alexandr Svetlicinii

University of Macau - Faculty of Law

Muruga P. Ramaswamy

University of Macau - Faculty of Law

Date Written: April 14, 2022

Abstract

This report covers the development of online legal education in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. It describes the overall features of the higher education institutions before it studies the example of the University of Macau, Macao’s only comprehensive public university. Against the backdrop of the overall macroeconomic impact of the pandemic on the Macao economy, the report shows what steps had been undertaken before the outbreak of the pandemic and how these had helped to provide exclusively online or hybrid classes during the pandemic. Based on these findings it concludes with some general remarks about the impact of online legal education against the overall trend of a changing legal profession in the future.

Keywords: legal education, Macau, Macao, China, law school, COVID-19, higher education, law

Suggested Citation

Neuwirth, Rostam Josef and Svetlicinii, Alexandr and Ramaswamy, Muruga Perumal, Online Legal Education in the Macao Special Administrative Region (China) (April 14, 2022). 2022 General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Legal Education and Methodology, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4171791 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4171791

Rostam Josef Neuwirth

University of Macau - Faculty of Law ( email )

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Alexandr Svetlicinii (Contact Author)

University of Macau - Faculty of Law ( email )

Macau

Muruga Perumal Ramaswamy

University of Macau - Faculty of Law ( email )

Macau

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