Shantou University Law School 1 A fully-funded Exchange Program for McGill Law students.

Shantou University Law School

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A fully-funded Exchange Program for McGill Law students

Shantou is one of the 5 Special Economic Zones in China, located in the east of Guangdong Province. It has a total area of 2,064 km2 with a population of 5,271,100. Shantou City has jurisdiction over Nan'ao Island and six districts, namely, Jinping, Longhu, Chenghai, Chaoyang and Chaonan.

The average annual temperature of Shantou city is 21 to 22 degrees Celsius with the lowest temperature above 0 degrees Celsius and the highest temperature in the mid 30 degrees Celsius (which are usually recorded in mid-July and early August).

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Shantou University (STU), founded in 1981 with the approval of the State Council, is a key comprehensive university under the "211 Project" in the Guangdong Province.

It is a university co-developed by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Government of the Guangdong Province, and the Li Ka Shing Foundation. It is also the only public university in China which is strongly supported by a private foundation—the Li Ka Shing Foundation.

Shantou University

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An Exchange Program at Shantou University (STU) for McGill Law students.

Up to $10,000 to cover cost of airfare (Montreal/Shantou return), tuition and registration fees at Shantou and accommodations.

Shantou University

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Shantou UniversitySTU consists of the following 9 colleges:

College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, College of Engineering, Law School, Business School, Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communications, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, School of Continuing Education, and the Medical College.

The Medical College consists of the following 5 affiliated hospitals: The First Affiliated Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Cancer Hospital, Mental Health Center, and the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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With strong efforts over the past three decades, Shantou University has created a welcoming, rigorous environment for training students to meet contemporary social needs and individual aspirations, and laid a solid foundation for sustainable educated development.

STU strives hard to deliver good quality higher education in a sound institutional environment and to maintain its position on a leading university in China with a global perspective.

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Welcome to STU Law School

The Shantou Law School aims to serve its students and society through its teaching, research and publications, and its collaboration with key institutions and civil society.

Students are not just taught the theory of law and administration but also how law and administration operate in the real world, deal with important social issues, and contribute to social development. This makes STU LS is special.

Rules and principles of law and governance are important, but as Shen Jiaben, the late Qing great reformer, long ago emphasized, rules that are not enforced and principles that are ignored have little meaning in real life.

In today’s world, as a lawyer, civil servant or any other kind of professional, you will need to know how to deal with difficult issues, to be a good problem solver, and to cope with a rapidly changing society. We try to teach you all these practical matters, as well as the theory of law, government and rights. Closely linked to this innovative approach, we always seek to explore new fields of study.

Michael Palmer, BSc, MA, LLD (London); LLB (Cantab)Law School Dean (until May 2015), Barrister-at-Law

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The Law School was established in 1983 and now contains two departments: Law and Public Administration. It provides Undergraduate education, LLM (from 2016) and MPA programs.

It is committed to the view that law and good governance should be valued not only for themselves but also should have moral purpose and assist with finding solutions for social problems and more generally promoting sustainable and equitable development.

The Law School believes that one of the most important tasks of law and administration, and the study of these disciplines, is to serve the public good, especially in making the lives of ordinary and disadvantaged people better.

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The Law School has taken a leading role law school within China in developing ADR programmes. These benefit not only its own law students but also for legal professionals, civil servants and others with a concern to refurbish and develop their professional skills in the area of dispute resolution.

The Cheung Kong Centre for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CKND) is a leading national centre for research and training in this area, and has established a significant books series on ADR jointly with Renmin University Law School.

Important programmes of cooperation have been developed with the courts in Dongguan, the Judicial Reform Office of the Supreme People’s Court, the National Judges Training College, CIETAC, and the Singapore Mediation Centre.

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Academic Activities ILectures

The Law School of Shantou University regularly invite law experts from home and from abroad to give lectures on the most intensively-debated, professional and ‘hot’ topics in legal education and public administration. These serve as a platform for sharing ideas as well as for profiting from the wisdom of various academic schools. Since 2002, around 114 academic lectures have been given by scholars at home and from the US, the UK, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and HK at STU.

Conferences

The Law School of Shantou University also sponsors and participates Conference held both at home and abroad with the purposes of fostering our students and faculty’s interests in legal study and research, and providing opportunities for them to learn from and to exchange ideas with the leading scholars. In recent time, the Law School has sponsored a number of Conference such as ‘China Legal Education’, ‘History of Western Legal Thoughts’ and ‘Natural Law Theory’, ‘Mediation, Law and Justice’, ‘Joint Conference of the Top 100 Law School Deans of China and Australia’, ‘Judicial System of Japan and College Legal Education Reform’, and the Conference on Law and Religion, and so on.• 18

Academic Activities IIPublications(1) ． The Shantou University Law Review(2) ． Recent Faculty Publications include:Dispute Processes (in English, Cambridge University Press, 2005; in Chinese,

Peking University Press 2011)The Journal of Comparative LawThe Journal of Comparative Asian Development (with CityU HongKong)Conflict and Compromise: the Reality and Practicality of Matrimonial LawCurrent Issues in International Law TodayNew Issues in Criminal JusticeFreedom of Communication During the Internet Age(4) ． The Local Government Research SeriesStudy on Local Government Models under the Framework of Constitutionalism in

ChinaOn the Development of Metropolises and UniversityA Study on Local Public Policies: a Model Based on Political Science

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Academic Activities IIIIn past two years, Law School students have gained, First Prize and Best Respondent Memo in 12th Jessup International Law

Moot Competition (China); First Prize, Best Claimant Memo and Best Respondent Memo in 11th

Jessup International Law Moot Competition (China); Second Prize in 10th Jessup International Law Moot Competition(China); Second Prize, Best Oralist and Team Contribution Award in 11th CIETAC

International Commercial Arbitration Moot; First Prize and Team Contribution Award in 10th CIETAC International Commercial

Arbitration Moot; First Prize in the 5th National College English Contest; Third Winner in the 8th Guangdong Universities’ Legal Debating

Contest; One of eight mainland teams participated in Vis International Commercial

Arbitration Moot; One of two mainland teams in Top 8 in the 3rd Shanghai International

Commercial Arbitration Moot, etc. • 20

Law School’s International

Programs

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McGill Summer Programs

• Since 2010, STU Law School has successfully held a series of exchange students programs with McGill Law School.

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A glance at Chaoshan

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Hope you will enjoy life in STU!

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