Hangzhou Workshop 2008
July 2008
Advocacy Schedule [ 
English, Chinese ] Advocacy Materials [ English, Chinese ]
Clinical Schedule [ English, Chinese ] Clinical Materials [ English, Chinese ]
Pacific McGeorge and American University conducted two intensive workshops on Advocacy and Clinical skills training for three weeks in July 2008 at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China. Faculty included ten American law professors and six Chinese law professors from partner schools as well as a vice director of the CCCLE who teaches at Tsinghua University.
The workshop was attended by participants from three of our Chinese partner schools, the Yale China project, and the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators (CCCLE). During the course of the workshops professors from Renmin University of China Law School, Temple University Law School and Washington University Law School visited to observe and participate.
The opening session, which members of both the advocacy and clinical workshops attended, featured talks by seven Chinese faculty members who had spent the previous school year studying experiential legal education in the United States.
The Vice Dean of the ZGU Law School and 2008 Pacific McGeorge LL.M. graduate, Luo Wenyan, noted that their notion of legal education had been shaped by the USAID program, and that she thought that the skills we were teaching were critical to the Rule of Law and to social justice.
The two workshops then separated until August 2008, when they reunited to discuss the relationship between advocacy skills education and clinical education, and ideas for future collaboration among the partners.
