students and the wider legal community." It was thereafter rebranded as the Hong Kong Student Law Gazette in 2012 and has remained a student-run organization encompassing undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Gazette has since received tremendous support from the faculty and Hong Kong's legal community, including industry leaders, the judiciary and the city's top law firms. Degrees granted CUHK LAW offers both undergraduate and postgraduate level law degree programmes. Unlike most other common law jurisdictions, the LLB and the JD exists simultaneously in Hong Kong, allowing for potential admission to the legal profession through an undergraduate or a postgraduate route. Undergraduate It offers a full-time four-year Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) Programme. The degree offers students a general and professional education at the undergraduate level. Successful applicants who enroll in the LLB programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong are given the opportunity to choose a double degree option towards the end of their first year. Two double degree options are available for LLB students: Law and Translation; and Law and Sociology. In collaboration with the Dickson Poon School of Law of King's College London (KCL), CUHK LAW offers a study option for LLB students to join the KCL's Master of Laws (LLM) Programme. The two law schools also jointly offer a Dual LLB-JD Degree Programme which provides students with an opportunity to study towards an LLB degree awarded by KCL and a JD degree awarded by CUHK in four years. Other dual/double degree programmes offered by CUHK LAW include the BBA-JD Double Degree Programme with the CUHK Business School, and the Dual LLB-JD Degree Programme with the University of Exeter Law School. Postgraduate Juris Doctor (J.D.) JD-MBA Double Degree Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Chinese Business Law, Common Law, Energy and Environmental Law, International Economic Law, and Legal History Master of Philosophy in Laws (MPhil) Doctor of Philosophy in Laws (PhD) Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (P.C.LL.), required for admission to the profession Notable people The chairman of the advisory board for CUHK LAW is the Honourable Justice Kemal Bokhary, a founding Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal who continues to serve as a Non-Permanent Judge on that Court after his retirement in 2012. The inaugural Dean, Mike McConville, is a well-respected socio-legal scholar. Other internationally notable former and present faculty members include Michael Pendleton (intellectual property), Nina Jørgensen (international law), Ling Bing (Chinese contract law),