Shantou University

Law School

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A fully-funded Exchange Program

for McGill Law students

Shantou is one of the 5 Special Economic Zones in China, located in the east of

Guangdong Province. It has a total area of 2,064 km2 with a population of 5,271,100.

Shantou City has jurisdiction over Nan'ao Island and six districts, namely, Jinping,

Longhu, Chenghai, Chaoyang and Chaonan.

The average annual temperature of Shantou city is 21 to 22 degrees Celsius with the

lowest temperature above 0 degrees Celsius and the highest temperature in the mid 30

degrees Celsius (which are usually recorded in mid-July and early August).

Shantou

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An Exchange* Program at Shantou University (STU) for McGill Law

students.

Fully-funded by a gift from the Li Ka Shing Foundation (Canada)

Coverage includes airfare, accommodations, tuition, travel to Shanghai and

Beijing.

* Exchange word used only for Shantou Univeristy; however, for McGill terminology this is an

Independent Study Away Program.

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Shantou University (STU), founded in 1981 with the approval of the State

Council, is a key comprehensive university under the "211 Project" in the

Guangdong Province.

It is a university co-developed by the Ministry of Education, the People’s

Government of the Guangdong Province, and the Li Ka Shing Foundation.

It is also the only public university in China which is strongly supported by

a private foundation—the Li Ka Shing Foundation.

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Shantou University

STU consists of the following 9 colleges:

College of Liberal Arts, College of Science, College of Engineering,

Law School, Business School, Cheung Kong School of Journalism

and Communications, Cheung Kong School of Art and Design,

School of Continuing Education, and the Medical College.

The Medical College consists of the following 5 affiliated hospitals:

The First Affiliated Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital,

Cancer Hospital, Mental Health Center, and the Joint Shantou

International Eye Center of Shantou University and the Chinese

University of Hong Kong.

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With strong efforts over the past three decades, Shantou University has

created a welcoming, rigorous environment for training students to meet

contemporary social needs and individual aspirations, and laid a solid

foundation for sustainable educated development.

STU is a typical Chinese walled campus with many open facilities, including

open-air sports fields, new Life Sciences building, student residences and

enclosed sports complex.

The language of instruction is Mandarin with a few courses offered in

English by the Law School and College of Liberal Arts.

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The Law School was established in 1983 and now contains two

departments: Law and Public Administration. It provides Undergraduate

education, LLM (from 2016) and MPA programs.

It is committed to the view that law and good governance should be valued

not only for themselves but also should have moral purpose and assist with

finding solutions for social problems and more generally promoting

sustainable and equitable development.

The Law School believes that one of the most important tasks of law and

administration, and the study of these disciplines, is to serve the public

good, especially in making the lives of ordinary and disadvantaged people

better.

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The Law School has taken a leading role law school within China in

developing ADR programmes. These benefit not only its own law students but

also for legal professionals, civil servants and others with a concern to

refurbish and develop their professional skills in the area of dispute

resolution.

The Cheung Kong Centre for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CKND) is

a leading national centre for research and training in this area, and has

established a significant books series on ADR jointly with Renmin University

Law School.

Important programmes of cooperation have been developed with the courts in

Dongguan, the Judicial Reform Office of the Supreme People’s Court, the

National Judges Training College, CIETAC, and the Singapore Mediation

Centre.

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Academic Activities I Lectures

The Law School of Shantou University regularly invite law experts from home and

from abroad to give lectures on the most intensively-debated, professional and ‘hot’

topics in legal education and public administration. These serve as a platform for

sharing ideas as well as for profiting from the wisdom of various academic schools.

Since 2002, around 114 academic lectures have been given by scholars at home

and from the US, the UK, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and HK at STU.

Conferences

The Law School of Shantou University also sponsors and participates Conference

held both at home and abroad with the purposes of fostering our students and

faculty’s interests in legal study and research, and providing opportunities for

them to learn from and to exchange ideas with the leading scholars. In recent time,

the Law School has sponsored a number of Conference such as ‘China Legal

Education’, ‘History of Western Legal Thoughts’ and ‘Natural Law Theory’,

‘Mediation, Law and Justice’, ‘Joint Conference of the Top 100 Law School Deans

of China and Australia’, ‘Judicial System of Japan and College Legal Education

Reform’, and the Conference on Law and Religion, and so on.

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Law School’s

International Programs

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McGill Summer Programs

• Since 2010, STU Law

School has successfully

held a series of

exchange students

programs with McGill

Law School.

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A glance at Chaoshan

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Shantou University

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Shantou University

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More information by writing to Shantou.law@mcgill.ca