Guangzhou Workshops 2007
July 16 - August 3, 2007
Advocacy Schedule [ 
English, Chinese ] Advocacy Materials [ English, Chinese ]
Clinical Schedule [ English, Chinese ] Clinical Materials [ English, Chinese ]
Faculty from Pacific McGeorge's three Chinese partner schools and two other Chinese law schools attended summer workshops in Guangzhou, China. Attendees were led through a comprehensive curriculum by select faculty from:
Pacific McGeorge (including Professor Cary Bricker, pictured above with Chinese associates)
American University
University of Pennsylvania
George Washington University
Prof. Cai Yanmin, a founding director of the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators (CCCLE), participated in the opening day of the workshops designed to enhance advocacy and clinical education efforts in the Chinese law schools.
At the close of the workshops, participants described how they planned to apply the skills they learned in their classrooms. Professor Wang Yan, professor of Comparative Criminal Law from ZGU said,
"I think that bringing in case analysis and some of the methods of instruction we have learned in the workshop would be a more effective way to teach the material."
Professor Lu Wei Feng of CUPL said he would use
"practical teaching applications to enhance and cultivate students' legal thinking patterns," and "challenge them to think about how the Chinese approach is different from other systems."
In addition, we've learned of some other great developments taking place in the Chinese law schools. China University of Political Science and Law will be starting an Institute of Experiential Learning, which will include clinical and advocacy components.
Starting this fall, Zhejiang Gongshang University has changed its curriculum to add more emphasis on clinical and advocacy skills; two ZGU professors, who attended the workshop, wrote a paper comparing Chinese and American clinical education.
Professor Huang Juan of South China University of Technology will be teaching an Alternative Dispute Resolution course in the fall for the first time, using techniques learned at the Advocacy Workshop.