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A total of 30 students are taking part in IU McKinney’s Chinese Law Summer Program (CLSP) at Renmin University of China Law School. It’s the 30^th year for the program, making it one of the longest-running foreign programs in China.

Led by Professor Tom Wilson, CLSP students will study Chinese domestic law, take law-related field trips to destinations including the People’s Supreme Court and the National People’s Congress, and embark on cultural field trips to sites such as the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square (pictured at left), and Forbidden City. The program is hosted at Renmin, ranked as the number one law school in China.

Students have already visited the Supreme People’s Court (pictured at right) and had the opportunity to meet Jiang Huiling, senior judge of Supreme People’s Court and president of the China Institute of Applied Jurisprudence. He is in the photo in the front row, sixth from the right, standing on the left of Professor Wilson.

Of the students, 14 are from IU McKinney, one is from the University of Mississippi, and the other students are from schools affiliated with CLSP, including two from the University of Minnesota, two from Boston College, one from the University of Oklahoma, and 10 from the University of Bergen, Norway, Faculty of Law. Students who undertook the two-week program will be in China until June 4, while those who are in the four-week program will complete it on June 18.

In addition to being the CLSP director, Professor Tom Wilson is the director of the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies, the Summer Program in American Law for Chinese students at Sun Yat-sen University Law School, and the LL.M. Program Track in American Law for Foreign Lawyers.