The Special Seminar on the Promotion and Exemption of Student Enrollment of the CUPL-BFS Foreign-Related Legal Personnel Master Pass-Through Training Programme was held at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFS) on the morning of 15 Sept, 2020.
The CUPL delegation included Vice President Chang Baoguo, Associate Dean of the Graduate School He Xin, Associate Dean of the School of International Law Liu Li; Deputy Director of the Institute of Comparative Law of the College of Comparative Law Zhu Mingzhe and Director of the Administrative Office of the College Liu Ming. Vice President Jia Wenjian of the Beijing Foreign Studies University received the delegation. Vice President of the Graduate School Guo Huawei moderated the seminar.
At the seminar, Jia Wenjian extended his warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to the CUPL's visit to the Beijing Foreign Studies University and hosting this event for undergraduate students of the university. He said that on the basis of the cooperation agreement, the two universities are expected to jointly promote the comprehensive training of foreign-related legal talents and provide high-quality talents for the national political, diplomatic and legal undertakings.
Chang Baoguo first thanked the Beijing Foreign Studies University for the thoughtful organization of this visit. He said,
“in the face of today's increasingly complex and volatile international situation, the country attaches great importance to the rule of law in relation to foreign affairs, we should speed up the strategic layout of the foreign-related legal work and promote the construction of our country’s extra-territorial applicable legal system. However, relevant data show that there are only 7,000 lawyers who are skilled in foreign-related business, and only 300 of them can handle cases independently in international institutions such as the WTO. The lack of a Chinese face and voice in international organizations around the world makes it difficult to meet the needs of today's national development strategies and society. Therefore, it is a top priority to cultivate the foreign-related legal talents that the country is in urgent need of.”
Chang expressed that this articulation programme of Foreign-Related Legal Personnel Master Pass-Through Training jointly established by the China University of Political Science and Law, a strong law school ranking A+ in law, and the Beijing Foreign Studies University, a strong language school ranking A+ in foreign language, would definitely produce A++ level of high-quality foreign-related legal personnel who are proficient in both the language and the law.
After that, members of the CUPL delegation briefed the year 2020 graduating undergraduates from all language courses of BFS on the admission policies and plans for students with exemption of examinations, as well as the features of the promgramme of Internationalised Law Experimental Class of the School of International Law and such promgramme of the College of Comparative Law (with national law orientation) of CUPL in terms of enrollment and training, and conducted Q&A and exchanges with the students.
