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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:
