Would greatly appreciate your passing this on to the Librarian. Please,
could you also post the following on the internet where Librarians or
someone at law firms or corporations with Libraries will most likely see it?
Perhaps on bulletin boards or forums for lawyers, law firms, law students,
Libraries, etc.?
Thanks.
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Tsinghua Law School Library Needs Help !
Tsinghua Law School is in need of legal books and materials. We
welcome with great appreciation any books and legal materials bound for the
recycling bin. They will lead a new active life in Tsinghua's Law Library
and serve the education and research of students, lawyers, and legal
scholars in China. Your generosity would not go unrecognized - we will make
and affix a brass plaque in your name or your Firm's name to the Library
bookshelves.
Look forward to hearing from you. I can be reached by e-mail:
judge@eastnet.co.cn
Thanks,
Professor Howard Chan
Tsinghua University Law School
Main Building, 10 Fl.
Haidian District
Beijing 100084, People's
Republic of China
Tsinghua University Law School
Meeting the Needs of China's New Economic Laws and Commercial Legal System
Tsinghua University Law School is the first modern law school in
China. The primary educational purpose of Tsinghua University Law School is
to train lawyers. Its primary scholarly role is to encourage research in
law. The Law School is committed to contributing to establishing the rule
of law in China, the setting-up of a new legal system for China's market
economy, and to legal reform and the modernization drive. The Law School
has the Country's mandate to be China's first world-class law school
offering courses of study devoted to China's new economic laws and
commercial legal system and specializing in the common law legal tradition
and foreign laws. The Law School has adopted new training methodologies
suited to the representation of clients and enforcement of laws in market
transactions, which is different from the role of lawyers and officials in
the former planned economy. The Law School is planning a modern Law School
facility with a computerized and multi-media Law Library having electronic
access to the University's Main Library, the most modern library system in
China. Legal information will be available through the Law School's
databases of China's laws, rules & regulations, case decisions, and network
of cooperating institutional databases, CERNET (the backbone of China's
internet is based at Tsinghua University), and the Internet. The Tsinghua -
OCLC Service Center, established jointly with OCLC of the United States
provides service for retrieving OCLC resources.
The objective of the undergraduate and post graduate programs is to
train "combined" legal talents. Tsinghua is the leading scientific,
engineering and business management university in China. Tsinghua law
graduates will be equipped with not only modern legal skills and knowledge,
but also have backgrounds in economics, business management, science &
technology. In addition, unlike other law schools in China which are
segmented into different departmental law specialties, all Tsinghua law
students are required to take a core curriculum of basic law courses.
Language training will be a priority in teaching at Tsinghua. The teaching
will be bi-lingual, in Chinese and English. The Law School particularly
encourages its teaching staff to employ English as the preferred teaching
medium. Law students are required to have good command of at least one
foreign language. A good proportion of law professors from Hong Kong and
overseas will teach directly in English.
Students are required to take a core curriculum of basic law
subjects in economic law, contracts and commercial law, constitutional law,
administrative law, jurisprudence, legal history, criminal law,civil &
criminal procedure, torts, property and international law. Tsinghua Law
School is the only law school in China specializing in common law and
foreign laws. Our aim is to promote the understanding and practice of
common law and foreign laws in China in order to train world-oriented legal
talent.
History & Background
The Tsinghua School, the predecessor of Tsinghua University, was
founded in 1911 and was funded by the return of the war compensation to the
United States by China. It was a preparatory school for sending Chinese
students to further their studies in the United States. In 1928, the School
was reorganized into the National Tsinghua University. Legal education at
Tsinghua has a long history. The Tsinghua students sent to the United
States to study law from 1911 to 1929, after their return to China, played
very important roles in modern China's legal, governmental and diplomatic
affairs. In 1928, the Tsinghua Law School was formally opened and produced
many distinguished lawyers, law professors and jurists. After the founding
of the People's Republic in 1949, the Law School was merged with law schools
at other universities.
With the end of the Cultural Revolution, in the late 1970's, China began to
pay attention to legal restoration and modernization. Tsinghua
re-established legal education at that time. In 1984, the School of
Economics and Management (headed by Professor Zhu Rongji, currently China's
Executive Vice-Premier and often referred to in the western press as China's
"economic czar", a graduate of Tsinghua) was established. An Economic Law
Teaching and Research Group was founded under the School. The University
also established an Institute of Patent Affairs to conduct research on
intellectual property law and to handle Tsinghua's patent affairs. Research
was also conducted in environmental law, real estate law, financial and
enterprise law, etc.
From the early 1980's, many alumni and other public figures called for the
restoration of Tsinghua's Law School and the offering of formal legal
education. When Professor Zhang Xiaowen (currently the Executive Deputy
Commissioner of State Education) was President of Tsinghua University,
formally initiated the restoration of law degree programs at Tsinghua. In
order to meet the needs of further development of China's legal reform and
modernization, and the mandate to make Tsinghua a world-class university,
Tsinghua formed the Law School Organizing Committee headed by Mr. Zheng
Tianxing, the former Chief Justice of China's Supreme Court and professor
Wang Dazhong, the president of Tsinghua University. Mr. Wang Hanbing,
Deputy Chairman of the National People's Congress actively worked for the
re-establishment of Tsinghua Law School and provided many important and
useful instructions.
In July 1995, Professor Wang Shuwen was appointed the first Head of the Law
Department. Professor Wang is a renowned expert on Constitutional Law. He
participated in drafting the current Chinese Constitution and th Basic Laws
for Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions. He is a member of
the Law Committee of the National People's Congress and Vice-President of
the China Law Society. He is the only member representing Chinese legal
circles in the Academic Degrees Committee under the State Council. He was
the former Director of the Institute of Law of China Academy of Social Sciences.
In February 1996, the Honorable Howard W. Chan returned to China and
joined the Tsinghua faculty as Professor of Law after finishing his term as
Judge of The Civil Court and The Criminal Court of New York. Judge Chan who
was born in Canton, received his B.A. and J.D. degrees at Columbia
University, and was Professor of Law at Peking University from 1979 to 1984
when the law department re-opened after the Cultural Revolution. Judge Chan
was also legal advisor to the China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade and Arbitrator on the China International Economic and
Trade Arbitration Commission. He was partner of a large international law
firm and an international lawyer before his appointment to the bench in New
York. Professor Chan is Director in charge of development of the Law School
and Law Library at Tsinghua University.
Hon. Howard W. Chan
Professor of Law
Tsinghua University Law School
Main Building, 10th Fl.
Haidian District
Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
Tel: (8610) 6460-1188 x5021
Fax: (8610) 6460-5257
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