The Peking University School of Transnational Law

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I am the chancellor of the Peking University School of Transnational Law ("STL"), where I was the founding dean.


STL is the first law school in China to offer a true-American-style legal education.  It opened its doors in 2008 and graduated its first class of students in 2012.


Located on the Shenzhen campus of China's most distinguished university, STL offers a four-year, graduate-level program that leads to both a J.D. degree and a Chinese-law Juris Master degree. 


The government of China recognized STL's contribution to the rule of law in China by granting me its Friendship Award:   



STL represents part of a larger effort by China to involve foreign experts in its efforts to modernize.  In 2012, China's Premier Wen Jiabao invited me and three others to discuss that effort: