General Course Information
1.1 Course details
Course code: | LLAW6241 |
Course name: | Arbitration Award Writing |
Programme offered under: | LLM Programme |
Semester: | June |
Prerequisites: | (1) Students or graduates of the HKU LL.M. in Arb & DR programme are required to pass the following compulsory courses:
AND (2) Non-law students or graduates also need to achieve a minimum of 55% in the examination of the following courses:
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Credit point value: | 9 credits |
1.2 Course description
This course provides students with the knowledge required to understand and consider evidence, weigh it up and analyse submissions, arrive at a conclusion, and write a final, reasoned and enforceable Arbitration Award in compliance with UNCITRAL Model Law and Arbitration Rules.
This course focuses on the processes followed by an arbitrator in defining the issues that have to be decided by an award, dealing with the submissions made by the parties, analysing the appropriate law, evaluating the evidence, applying the law to that evidence, arriving at a conclusion, and then writing a final, reasoned and enforceable award.
1.3 Course teachers
Name | E-mail address | Office | Consultation | |
Course convenor | Anna K C Koo, FCIArb | akckoo@hku.hk | N/A | By email |
Learning Outcomes
2.1 Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for this course
CLO 1 Conceptual Knowledge
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate sound conceptual knowledge of:
- recognising and evaluating evidence;
- the issues arisen from the parties’ submissions;
- creating structure and dealing with all the issues that arise;
- deciding matters in dispute logically and in accordance with the law;
- the skills required to write arbitration awards correctly;
- the discursive and operative parts of an arbitration award;
- dealing with the parties’ costs and interest of an arbitration award;
- allocating an arbitrator’s fees and expenses;
- compliance with the legal and other requirements for an enforceable arbitration award.
CLO 2 Technical and Practical Knowledge
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate sound technical and practical knowledge of:
- recognising and evaluating evidence;
- the issues arisen from the parties’ submissions;
- creating structure and dealing with all the issues that arise;
- deciding matters in dispute logically and in accordance with the law;
- the skills required to write arbitration awards correctly;
- the discursive and operative parts of an arbitration award;
- dealing with the parties’ costs and interest of an arbitration award;
- allocating an arbitrator’s fees and expenses;
- compliance with the legal and other requirements for an enforceable arbitration award.
2.2 LLM Programme Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Please refer to the following link: https://course.law.hku.hk/llm-plo/
2.3 Programme Learning Outcomes to be achieved in this course
PLO A | PLO B | PLO C | PLO D | PLO E | PLO F | |
CLO 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CLO 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Assessment(s)
3.1 Assessment Summary
Assessment task | Due date | Weighting | Feedback method* | Course learning outcomes |
Written examination^ | TBC | 100% | 1 | 1, 2 |
^ The written examination requires students to write a reasoned and enforceable arbitration award, final as to the issues it determines.
*Feedback method (to be determined by course teacher) | |
1 | A general course report to be disseminated through Moodle |
2 | Individual feedback to be disseminated by email / through Moodle |
3 | Individual review meeting upon appointment |
4 | Group review meeting |
5 | In-class verbal feedback |
3.2 Assessment Detail
The written examination requires students to write a reasoned and enforceable arbitration award, final as to the issues it determines.
The examination will contribute 100% of the final mark.
3.3 Grading Criteria
Please refer to the following link: https://www.law.hku.hk/_files/law_programme_grade_descriptors.pdf
Learning Activities
4.1 Learning Activity Plan
Seminar: | Seminars in an intensive mode in summer semester |
Private study time: | 9.5 hours / week for 12 teaching weeks |
Remarks: the normative student study load per credit unit is 25 ± 5 hours (ie. 150 ± 30 hours for a 6-credit course), which includes all learning activities and experiences within and outside of classroom, and any assessment task and examinations and associated preparations.
4.2 Details of Learning Activities
To be advised by the convenor.
Learning Resources
5.1 Resources
Reading materials: | To be posted on Moodle |
Core reading list: |
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Recommended reading list: |
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5.2 Links
Please refer to the following link: http://www.law.hku.hk/course/learning-resources/