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Professor Tom Wilson spoke at the East Asia & U.S. Legal Education Forum, where he talked about “Pressures and Responses: Legal Education Reform in the U.S.” The event took place on May 26.

The forum was sponsored by the China University of Political Science & Law School of Juris Master, Waseda University Institute on Clinical Education, and the Trilateral Cooperation Studies Center on Law at Renmin University of China.

In the photo are many deans and other dignitaries representing law schools and bar associations in China, Japan, and South Korea. Professor Wilson is in the front row, fourth from the right. Two places to his right is Jiang Huiling, Vice President of the National Judge’s College of the PRC, an arm of the Supreme People’s Court. Professor Wilson has spoken at the NJC three times. One of those times, Professor Wilson was accompanied by Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven David, '82; then-Justice Frank Sullivan, now Professor of Practice at IU McKinney; and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Riley, '74.

Also in the photo is Professor Ding Xiangshun, LL.M. '06, S.J.D. '19. Professor Ding also spoke at the forum on the topic "Same Direction but Different Approaches Towards Legal Education Reform in Northeast Asia." Professor Ding is two places to Professor Wilson's left in the front row.

Now in its third decade, the CLSP is hosted at Renmin University of China Law School, a longtime friend of IU McKinney. The program offers students either two or five credits, over the course of two or four weeks of study in China. CLSP students are given an overview of the Chinese legal system and the evolution of Chinese domestic law within the country's socialist market economy.