Since 2007, I have served as chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law ("STL").
Peking University (also known as "Beijing University," or "Beida") is China's oldest and most distinguished university. In 2007, the university's leadership, with the support of the national government, decided to establish STL as China's first American-style law school, a graduate program whose courses are taught in English using the Socratic method, in a four-year curriculum that leads both to a J.D. degree and a Chinese-law Juris Master degree.
STL began teaching courses in 2008 and will graduate its first class of students in 2012.
STL is fortunate to have received a grant of $2 million from the C.V. Starr Foundation to support its program in the early years. It also receives supports from philanthropic individuals, businesses, and law firms.
STL began teaching its first class of students in September 2008.
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You may read more about the Peking University School of Transnational Law here.
