Invited by the "2011 Plan" China Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization, the "111 Plan" Base for Evidence Science Innovation and Talent Recruitment and the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, Professor Thomas Yunlong Man from Peking University, as well as an adjunct professor of CUPL, successfully delivered a nine-day course in CUPL since November 8th 2016.
Thomas Yunlong Man, J.D. in Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Ph.D. in American Constitutional History in Johns Hopkins University. He joined STL in 2014 after 17 years of law practice in cross-border mergers & acquisitions and corporate transactions with a number of leading international law firms in Chicago, Shanghai and Beijing, including as a partner with Baker & McKenzie, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Hogan Lovells and Morrison & Foerster. Now, Professor Man is Professor from Practice of Peking University School of Transnational Law and adjunct Professor of CUPL.
The course was focused on legal profession and practices with reasonable arrangement, including three major parts. The first part was lecture given by Professor Man, involving the definition of legal terminology, due diligence, preparation of contracts, legal translation, government approval and other relevant practice knowledge in Foreign Invested Enterprise (Equity Joint Venture, Cooperative Joint Venture and Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise). In the second part, three experienced and renowned lawyers (respectively from DLA Piper Global Law Firm, AnJie Law Firm and China Development Bank) were invited by Professor Man to make an animated speech about International Project Financing and Cross-border M&A. Their excellent speeches gave students many profound insights and thoughts of those areas. In the final part of this course, students were encouraged to form teams to do some collaborative research on a given topic. Finally, the course was topped off with students’ excellent oral presentations about their former research.
The course was taught mainly in English and came to a happy ending on Nov.17, and was highly praised by our students.