Visiting Scholars Meet with District Court Judge, Corporate Leader, and State Senator
09/20/2019
Visiting Scholars to the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies at IU McKinney are able to meet with accomplished alumni who practice law in the Indianapolis legal community and internationally, who serve in state government, and who are jurists in the federal courts.
Liu Dongwei and Wang Xinyuan, graduate students from China Agricultural University Department of Law are Visiting Scholars to the Joint Center through the Fall 2019 semester.
Liu and Wang visited with U.S. District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, '83, in the William E. Steckler Courtroom, shown in the photo at left.
The Visiting Scholars then went to the Indianapolis headquarters for Cummins, Inc., where they met with Fernanda Beraldi, LL.M. '15. Beraldi is Senior Director of Ethics and Compliance for the manufacturer, and recently was named to the eighth annual Top 10 30-Somethings list by the Association of Corporate Counsel. In the photo at left, Liu and Wang are shown with Beraldi at Cummins' Indianapolis headquarters.
Liu and Wang also were able to visit the Indiana Statehouse. In the photo at left, the Visiting Scholars are sitting in the legislators' seats in the chamber of the House of Representatives. They were hosted by Senator Phil Boots, who is Chair of the Pensions and Labor Committee, and serves on the Appropriations, Homeland Security and Transportation, Public Policy, and Veterans Affairs and the Military committees.
To date, 43 scholars have come to IU McKinney School of Law through the Joint Center for Asian Law Studies. It was founded in 2010, and is a collaboration between IU McKinney and Renmin University of China Law School. Professor Tom Wilson is the Joint Center's Director.
