IU McKinney Welcomes Visiting Professor Han Dayuan from Renmin University of China Law School
09/28/2017
Professor Han Dayuan of Renmin University of China Law School is a Visiting Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law during Fall 2017. Professor Han, who served as Dean at Renmin Law from 2009-2017, is a longtime friend of IU McKinney.
Professor Han will lecture on the rule of law development in China, the status of human rights and the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, as well as developments in judicial reform.
Professor Han received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bergen in Norway in May 2017. He also received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Lapland in Finland in 2012, was named the Cheung Kong Scholar by the Ministry of Education in China in 2012 and was named the National Outstanding Teaching Master by the Ministry of Education in China in 2006. He is President of the China Association of Constitutional Law and Executive Vice President of the China Association of Legal Education.
Professor Han will moderate a panel discussion titled, “Dialogue on the Rule of Law in Asia,” at IU McKinney on October 17 at 3 p.m., and he will deliver a lecture titled, “Human Rights in China: In the Constitution and in Practice,” on October 19 at 4:30 p.m. at Inlow Hall.
