02 September 2014

Good Feeling

 Yesterday Bob got an e-mail from a student he taught in China - just the kind of note you like to receive.

Dear Professor Baines,
I’m WANG Yue, a student you’ve taught in 2009 at Nanjing University. I’m writing this letter to express my thanks to you for having taught me a lot during your wonderful Commercial Law Course.

Thanks for a programme set up by the Department of Justice of Hong Kong, I’m now studying at Chinese University of Hong Kong as a postgraduate student in LLM in Common Law. I’ve just came back from my first class of this term. I’m very glad to tell you that I think I’ve done well in this first class: I can understand what the professor is talking about, I can follow the professor’s thinking and I can  answer his question. All the courses here are taught in English, and the common law study is a wholly new experience compared to my study in Nanjing University — except for your Commercial Law Course. I can not handle this without your wonderful teaching. It is in your class that I’ve had my first contact with case studying which I think is the core spirit of the common law study.

Thank you very much! It is probably that after so many years, you have forget that commercial law course ( or maybe you’ll still remember it simply because the students in that course were too lazy to read all the cases). But I still want to send this sincere thanks to you.

Best regards,

Wang Yue


Wang Yue - front row left

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