Message from the Associate Dean for Alumni and Professional Affairs

Welcome to our new Dean and farewell to Chris Gane. Before he left, and in the light of events over the last few months, Chris wrote these wise words for this newsletter:

“We must all try to promote peaceful and respectful dialogue for without that there is no way forward. We all have a role to play in promoting this dialogue, and I hope that communication with and between our alumni can contribute to the process of finding a new and better future for Hong Kong.”

Thank you Chris.

In this Newsletter you will find details of the many events, conferences, seminars and other happenings over the past months. Alumni are invited to all the conferences and seminars and it’s very pleasing that many of you often show up.

I made a particular plea at the LLM Reception in May. We hope, over the years, to develop alumni “chapters” in cities throughout the world, so that you stay in touch with one another, and with us, and so that when any member of Faculty visits any of those cities he or she can get together with members of the “chapter”. But we need your help for this: first, for you to remain in contact with others in your city, and second, to let us know about it so that we can keep in contact. Please do the needful, as they say.

We have made a very splendid start on the Beijing chapter with the event on 13 October, details of which follow.

The most momentous events recently have been the departure of our Dean, Professor Christopher Gane, at the end of September, and the arrival of our new Dean, Professor Lutz-Christian Wolff, to take over the helm.

Chris Gane became our Dean in the Autumn of 2011. We are very grateful for all Chris has done for the Faculty and very sorry to lose him. He will take on the role of Emeritus Professor, so we may see him here from time to time; we hope so. We wish Chris and his lovely wife Christine (who joined Chris at so many Faculty events) all the very best for the future.

Sad though we may be to lose Chris, we are gaining a very worthy successor. We wish Lutz the best of luck in his new position and can be sure that with him at its head the Faculty will continue to flourish. For more information on Lutz please click here.

RICHARD MORRIS
Associate Dean for Alumni and Professional Affairs

Posted in Newsletter October 2019.