C.U. Law School Announces Exchange With Peking Univ.

Program is law school’s first in mainland China

Starting in the fall of 2008, the Cornell Law School will begin an exchange program with Peking University Law School in Beijing, China, known informally as Beida.

The program will be the Law School’s first with a University on mainland China, a country that Leslie Burke, executive director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, called “a huge player on the global scene.”

The exchange program will involve both students and professors. Chinese professors will teach Chinese corporate law in Ithaca next semester.

Cornell law students will benefit, according to Larry Bush, executive director of the Clarke Center for International and Comparative Legal Studies, because Beida has “the best law faculty in China.”