Lanzhou University Law School

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The establishment of Lanzhou University Law School could be traced back to 1909 (Xuantong 1st Year, Qing Dynasty), whose predecessor was the Institute of Gansu Politics and Law. The Institute had been change into “Gansu State Politics and Law Expert School”, “Lanzhou Zhongshan University”, and “Gansu University” from 1913-1946. The Lanzhou University was formally founded in August, 1946. The legal college had the maximum students and education force at that time. It consisted the University with the liberal art college and other two colleges. The legal college and liberal art college were combined under the “Northwest Higher Schools Modification Strategy” instruction by the Central Political Bureau in 1952, which is called the “Liberal Art and Legal College”. In 1953, the department of law was canceled in the modulation again.

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Top 2010 Law School Rankings in China

Due to the improvement law education in China, hundreds of law schools were arised these years. Law education area is no longer dominated by the nine old law schools. Some universities, depend on their reputation, academic recourses and scientific research abilities, has became high level of law schools. For example, although Tsinghua University law school is not as famous as other science departments in campus previous, Tsinghua University law school has an incredible improvement in recent years, based on governmental appropriations, participation of excellent professors and etc.

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Zhejiang Wanli University Law School

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Law School started in 1999,setting such specialties as jurisprudence, Law Practicing and Economic Law. We have 46 well-qualified permanent members of the academic staff, 3 professors, 8 associate professors, 16 lectures, and 13 teaching assistants. Most are masters and 2 are doctors. We have 2 academic leaders. The components are International Law Teaching And Research Center, Civil Law & Commercial Law Teaching And Research Center, Criminal Law Teaching And Research Center, Jurisprudence Teaching And Research Center, Administration Teaching And Research Center, Maritime Law Teaching And Research Center, Tax Law Teaching And Research center, Comparative Jurisprudence Teaching And Research Center, Practicing Center (including Moot Court, Criminal Investigation Experiment Room, Legal Services Organization), Learning Resources Center and three administrative offices. There are 1349 full time students in Law School. 

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Xiangtan University Law School

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Law School of Xiangtan University (its former was the Department of Law of Xiangtan University) was established in 1982. It is the first law school to recruit students with the most powerful faculty, the fullest scope of disciplines of law, the largest recruitment scope and the complete education levels in Hunan Province. The major of Law of the school is the Key Major of Hunan Province and Exemplification Major of Hunan Province. School of Law now has 74 teachers in total, 61 full time teachers, 21 professors, 26 associate professors, 12 doctor supervisors, 46 master supervisors, 32 doctor degree holders, 12 are studying for their doctor’s degree, 40-odd famous foreign and domestic jurisprudential scholars are employed as guest professors.

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Xi’an Jiaotong University Law School

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The origin of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) School of Law traces to the earlier years of Nanyang Public College. As early as 1901, Nanyang Public College initiated law courses such as Constitutional Law, Public International Law and Law of International Treaties. These were the earliest practice in legal education at Jiaotong University, as well as one of the earliest in China’s modern legal history. Distinguished scholars such as Judge WANG Chung-hui (JSD, Yale University; the first Chinese Judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice), Judge Hsu Mo (the first Chinese Judge at the International Court of Justice) and Shutong LI (the earliest Chinese scholar who translated Private International Law textbooks), who received education at Nanyang, had made significant contribution to the development of China’s legal studies in the early years.

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Southwestern University of Finance and Economices Law School

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SWUFE School of Law is one of the key departments under the State “211” projects.

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Southwest University Law School

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Southwest University (SWU) is a key multi-disciplinary university. In July, 2005, Southwest Normal University (SWNU) and Southwest Agricultural University (SWAU) were merged into the new Southwest University , which approved by and affiliated to Ministry of Education of China . In 2006, the Law Department of Politics and Law School of SWNU and Law Department of Humanism School of SWAU were combined as the new Law School of SWU.

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Sichuan University Law School

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The Law School of Sichuan University enjoys a long history. It was originally founded in 1903, known as KE LI GUAN or SHI XUE GUAN(official-training school).In 1905, the original SHI XUE GUAN was developed into Sichuan Law and Politics School by the officials in charge of education. Sichuan Law and Politics School further developed into a modern Sichuan School of Law and Politics in 1912, and was renamed in 1914 as Sichuan Public Special School of Law and Politics, with Yin Huanmen as the president. In 1927, Public Sichuan University was established with the association of the five special schools, including Sichuan Public Special School of Law and Politics, Sichuan Public Special School of Foreign Languages, Sichuan Public Special School of Agriculture, Sichuan Public Special School of Industry and Sichuan Public Special School of Sinology.  Sichuan Public Special School of Law and Politics thus became the School of Law and Politics in Public Sichuan University. In 1931, Public Sichuan University, National Chengdu University and National Chengdu Normal University were amalgamated into National Sichuan University. In 1933, National Sichuan University set up the Schools of Literature, Science and Law while the School of Law in turn consisted of the Departments of Law, Politics and Economics. The total number of people in the Law Department of 1000, including the Judicial Group, which was the special judge-training program authorized by the nation’s Judicial and Administrative Department. The Law Department at the time had a large number of professors who had studied in America, Europe or Japan, such as Xie Shengtang and Zhao Nianfei of criminal law, Xi Qianchang, Zhu Xianzhen, Hu Yuanyi and Ning Boqing of civil and commercial law, Hu Gongxian of constitutional and administrative law, Liu Shichuan of international law, Yu Qunzong of land law, Long Shourong of procedural law, Yang Lansun of the organic law of the courts, etc. New courses were also offered such family law, maritime law, succession law, company law, negotiable instruments law, enforcement law, bankruptcy law, land law, etc. Number of influential works on law were published.

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Shantou University Law School

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The Law School of Shantou University derived from the Law Department, which was formed in 1981 when the University was established.  As one of the earliest four undergraduate programs, it started to enroll full-time undergraduate students since 1983 and so far has accumulated undergraduate education experiences for twenty-three years with over 2,000 LL.B. graduates.

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School

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At the end of the 19th century, Mr. Sheng Xuanhuai and a group of men of foresight founded the Nanyang Public School in Shanghai-the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University– in the belief that “the top priority for strengthening the nation is to cultivate talents, and to cultivate talents, we must first run good schools”. On December 14, 1920, the school was renamed as the Jiao Tong University.

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