This interdisciplinary project aims to empower local teachers’ capabilities by equipping them with common law concepts and values to respond to COVID-related legal issues in the school setting. Legal knowledge with real life examples will be delivered through experiential learning workshops by academics from HKU Law Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Education University of Hong Kong, as well as barrister-at-law and legal counsel with knowledge and experience in dealing with COVID-related legal issues. Moreover, this project seeks to create social impact by raising local school teachers’ awareness of legal issues in the school setting that may arise from COVID-19.   

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• empower local school teachers’ capabilities in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues;

• enhance local school teachers’ understanding of COVID-19 related legal issues;

• raise local school teachers’ awareness of common law concepts like negligence and duty of care in the school setting;

• develop local school teachers’ awareness of common law values like equality and non-discrimination in the school setting.

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Deliverables:

1. Workshops consisting of video clip showing and sharing by academics, barrister and legal counsel on common law concepts and values in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues in the school setting for local school teachers;

2. A public Facebook page to disseminate the workshop materials on common law concepts and values in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues in the school setting;

3. A public social media “Instagram” to disseminate the workshop materials on common law concepts and values in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues in the school setting;

4. An online webpage to disseminate the workshop materials on common law concepts in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues in the school setting.

5. Conference paper(s)/journal article(s) on experiential learning on Covid-19 related legal issues and its social impact on local school teachers;

6. An open sharing session on the social impact of this KE project in  empowering local school teachers’ capabilities in responding to COVID-19 related legal issues.