Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Abstract

The School of Transnational Law (STL) is largely the work of two men of vision, Hai Wen, Vice-President of Peking University, and Jeffrey Lehman, former Dean of the University of Michigan Law School and President of Cornell University. Both were instrumental members of the Joint Center for China-U.S. Law and Policy Studies Institute (the Joint Center), founded in 2005, whose mission is to “nurture harmony between the Chinese and American legal systems through the dissemination of knowledge.” Hai and Lehman aspired to create a law school that would integrate China’s bold entry into global business and international diplomacy with a commitment to the rule of law as it has been developed in Western, and especially American, legal systems. The School of Transnational Law was opened in August 2008 as a division of the Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University.


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