DEC and School of Law: Reframing the Coursework Curriculum

City University of Hong Kong’s Discovery Enriched Curriculum (‘DEC’) is a unique pedagogical framework emphasising discovery, innovation, and creativity. With its focus on invention and experimentation, this approach lends itself naturally to the artistic and science-based disciplines, yet with an open mind, it can also be implemented within the undergraduate curriculum in law. This chapter recalls the successes and ongoing challenges in implementing the DEC framework within the existing School of Law curriculum. Already, some established law teaching practices fit the DEC model. Nevertheless, to fully implement the DEC within the Bachelor of Laws curriculum (and within School of Law’s taught postgraduate programmes), some changes to long-standing teaching practices and the list of core courses are necessary. Overall, DEC has the potential to become a model for other law schools to follow in adopting discovery-based learning methods.