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International Law School

The School of International Law, adhering to the education policy of facing world, facing future and facing modernization, devotes itself to serving our country's economic construction and yields a lot in the development of discipline, research, cultivating students and administration. As early as 1996, International law was awarded key discipline of the Ministry of Justice

and Shanghai Municipality. In 1998, it was appraised the authority to offer LLD programs (major of international law), the first one in east China by China and began to offer courses for doctor candidates. In 2003, it began to enroll post doctors of international law.

The school has a faculty of 46 staff including 8 professors, 7 supervisors of doctoral programs, 13 associate professors and 21 supervisors of master programs. And 90% of them had overseas experience of pursuing a degree or further education in Europe, England and America. The staff has published more than 150 textbooks, writings, dictionaries and assortments, some of which provide some completely new ideas in the field both home and abroad. In 2003, the International Economic Law is awarded "Elite Courses in Shanghai". The staff participated in revising and proving nearly 10 important national laws. They also engage in drafting, proving and revising local laws and regulations of Shanghai, which is thought highly by the related governmental bodies. They also play an important role in the judicial practice.More than 10 teachers are the arbitrators of various government agencies and more than 30 teachers are part-time lawyers. More than 30 of our staff obtained the national and Shanghai's awards and honor titles.


The school invites experts in law and professors from Europe and America to offer lectures to undergraduate students and postgraduate students. It also sends lecturers of our school abroad either for teaching or refresher courses. Our school has established formal partnership with overseas schools such as Law School of University of San Francisco, U.S. and Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1999, its Reference Room is awarded "The United Nations Documents Collecting library", obtaining the newest books and materials on international law from the United Nations every year. In August 2005, the United Nations International law institute chief, the general judge, Shi Jiuyong visited the school.

The school recommends and selects nearly 20% of the undergraduatesĦĦand the graduatesĦĦto go abroad to further their studies or pursue a degree every year on average. In 2005, the school cooperated with the Hong Kong City University to cultivate undergraduate students together, and successfully recruited the first international class of four-year program. In 2004, the team composed by the staff and students of the school won the second place in the "Jessup international law simulated court competition" in Chinese contest area, and they went to Washington to participate in the global contest in the finals on behalf of China. The international law school's all previous graduates obtain the social recognition with its prominent foreign language proficiency and the international law specialized knowledge. With China joining in the WTO, the demand of professionals in the field of international law is increasing everyday.

The school takes advantage of talented people with rich teaching experience and the scientific research strength. Aiming at the first-class goal, creating the first-class enterprise, training the first-class talented people, it strives for creating the international law discipline as the national first-class key discipline, cultivating qualified talented people specialized in international law.