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The Chinese Law Summer Program at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis has entered into a collaboration agreement with the China Summer Program at Boston College Law School. Students in Boston College’s China Summer Program will participate in the summer study abroad program that the IU-Indianapolis law school operates at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing. Both IU Law – Indianapolis and Boston College Law School have on-going relationships with Renmin University. The Indiana University program has operated a summer program in China since 1987 and has conducted classes at Renmin University since 1998. The relationship between IU and Renmin is the longest-running international relationship for both schools. In 2010, the Ministry of Education in China identified Renmin University of China School of Law as the top ranked law school in that nation. The Chinese Law Summer Program at IU Law – Indianapolis is directed by Professor Lloyd T. Wilson, Jr., and the China Summer Program at Boston College Law School is directed by Professor Judith McMorrow. Speaking about the collaboration, Professor Wilson said, “Professor McMorrow and I began planning this collaboration when we met at a conference at Renmin University last October. We both recognize the many benefits students receive from the opportunity to study abroad, and we see contemporary China as an especially exciting place to study a legal system in the process of transformation. We look forward to a long relationship between our programs.”