On the afternoon of May 7, 2014, Vice-President Zhu Yong met with Genevieve Tanguay, Vice Rector of Research, Creation and Innovation of University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada, and Guy Lefevbre, Dean of the Law School (LaFaculté de droit) at UdeM at Xueyuan Lu Campus. Jiao Jie, Chinese Co-Director of the Sino-Canadian Law Research Center, and Wang Fuping, Vice-Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, also attended the meeting.
Zhu Yong first extended a warm welcome to Genevieve Tanguay and Guy Lefevbre. Our visitors also took the chance to attend the International Forum, “The Management and Legality of Canadian Natural Resources: A Present Uphill Battle”, which was jointly held on May 7th and 8th by CUPL and UdeM at Beijing. Zhu reviewed the past cooperation between the two sides. He claimed that University of Montreal was one of the most important partners among over 160 of CUPL’s current partners. Whether you are looking at the history of the bilateral cooperation, or the many forms it has taken, its content or its achievements, the over ten years working-together has been an outstanding model of international teamwork, and numerous teachers and students of the two universities have reaped the benefits. Zhu Yong hoped that the current cooperation in jurisprudence can be further extended to the field of the humanities and social sciences, such as politics, public management, journalism and media, etc.
Genevieve Tanguay remarked that it has been an honor for UdeM to collaborate with CUPL and she was satisfied with the multi-level, high quality, and comprehensive cooperation between the two. Moreover, she indicated that other schools and research institutions at the University of Montreal also showed their willingness to work with CUPL.
Before the end of the meeting, both sides agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding as soon as possible to prompt their teamwork in other disciplines. Subjects like politics, public management and journalism were high on the agenda. Furthermore, the two universities also shared each other’s views on matters such as high-level exchange visits between the two in the second half of this year, and in laying foundations for implementing the cooperative programs concerning humanity and social science.
The two parties made major breakthroughs in the scope and form of their collaboration based on existing cooperations such as student exchanges, the LL.M. program, and the joint cultivation program for doctoral candidates,studying for the Juridical Studies Doctorate degree at UdeM, teacher exchanges, joint research, summer schools, and so on. For example, at the end of 2013, near 50 CUPL students attended the interview organized by University of Montreal for its LL.M. Scholarship Program in 2014/2015 academic year (its enrollment is currently underway); in 2014/15 academic year, by means of “Chinese Government Scholarship Programs for International Students Studying in China”, CUPL will admit students from the University of Montreal to study for our LL.M. program for the first time; in the same period, the number of CUPL students heading for University of Montreal has increased from 4 to 8 annually, and 6 of them are financially supported by China Scholarship Council’s Undergraduate Exchange Scholarship Program; Currently, 100 students from UdeM Law school are attending our International Law School’s "Summer Program of China Laws".
