On the afternoon of May 22, 2014, CUPL President Huang Jin and Vice President Zhang Baosheng attended the signing ceremony of a cooperative agreement between the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization (CICJC) at CUPL and Indiana University (IU), America. The aim of that agreement is to establish a new Academy for the Study of Chinese Law and Comparative Judicial Systems. IU President, Mr. Michael A. McRobbie, and its Vice President for international Affairs, Mr. David Zaret, as well as three other IU representatives attended the ceremony.
CUPL President Huang Jin mentioned that the newly signed agreement would serve as a new step in the longstanding cooperation between the two universities. The Academy for the Study of Chinese Law and Comparative Judicial Systems, which will be unveiled in IU, is the third cross-border institute co-founded by CICJC and its foreign academic partners, following the examples of the Sino-Swiss Joint Research Centre of Evidence Science at University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the Research Center of Chinese Law at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany. Mr. McRobbie added that IU was very pleased to conclude such a close cooperative agreement with CICJC. This Academy is the second of its kind being jointly launched by IU and its foreign top university counterparts.
Prof. Zhang Baosheng, Joint-Director of CICJC & Vice President of CUPL, signed the Cooperation Agreement between CICJC at CUPL and Maurer School of Law at IU on Research Project Concerning the Study of Chinese Law and Comparative Judicial Systems with Mr. McRobbie.
In line with the agreement, CICJC and IU will co-finance the setting up and running of the new Academy at IU Bloomington. The main functions of the institute would be: responsibility for the professors and teaching staff from CUPL, its CICJC, IU as well as other Law Schools of the States; giving lectures on the partner’s campus and exchanging visiting scholars; conducing joint research; facilitating exchange programs for Chinese graduate students and summer school programs for American law school students and creating and tuning up the planned website for the new Academy.
