Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL”) invites applications and nominations for Dean of the law school, to assume office on August 1, 2018. STL offers China’s only Common Law Juris Doctor program and the world’s only Common Law J.D./China law Juris Master dual degree program. STL also offers an LL.M. for international students with a first degree in law. STL admitted its first students in 2008.
Peking University (“PKU”) is commonly regarded as China’s leading university and as one of the world’s great research universities. STL is located on PKU’s Shenzhen Graduate School Campus, which includes PKU’s HSBC Business School, School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, School of Advanced Materials, School of Environment and Energy, School of Urban Planning and Design, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences. PKU’s Shenzhen Campus is part of a larger “University Town” that includes the Shenzhen campuses of Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology, two of China’s other leading research universities. STL occupies a new state-of-the-art Kohn Pederson Fox-designed law school building.
Shenzhen is renowned as China’s “Silicon Valley,” home to information and biotechnology start-ups and such innovative giants as Tencent, Huawei, BGI, BYD, and DJI Drones. Just forty years ago Shenzhen was a small fishing and farming community; today it is a city of almost 20 million. The April 2017 The Economist declared Shenzhen “one of the world’s most innovative cities,” noting that Shenzhen alone accounts for more high quality international patents than either Great Britain or France, and that Shenzhen alone is responsible for nearly 50 percent of the international patents filed from China annually. The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO’s) Global Innovation Index (GII) announced in June 2017 that Shenzhen-Hong Kong has surpassed California’s Silicon Valley.
Together, Shenzhen and Hong Kong form the hub of the world’s most populous metropolitan area, China’s Pearl River Delta, where Chinese and Western legal and commercial traditions are meeting and merging in ways likely to preview future legal developments throughout China and the rest of the world as China’s global economic influence grows.
STL’s founding dean was Jeffrey Lehman, a former president of Cornell University and dean of the University of Michigan Law School, who has served since 2012 as the Founding Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai. Lehman was succeeded by Philip McConnaughay, a former dean of Penn State University’s Schools of Law and International Affairs, professor of law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and partner of Morrison & Foerster, who is stepping down in July 2018 after a sustained period of significant growth for the law school. STL’s multinational resident and visiting faculty includes world-renowned scholars and practitioners.
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