History
The precursor to CESL was the EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation Programme, which ran from 2000 to 2005. The former Chinese Minister of Justice, Zhang Fusen, first talked about the idea of creating a Sino-European law school in 2003. The head of the Delegation of the European Commission to China, Serge Abou, also promoted this idea to the European Community. An agreement to create a Sino-European law school was signed by the European Commission and the Chinese government in 2006.
The inauguration ceremony of the China-EU School of Law was held on October 23, 2008 and attended by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The Asia Times stated that CESL’s establishment was a sign of ‘the degree of China's openness’.
CESL is the first law school in China approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China under the Sino-foreign jointly administered schools agreement.
CESL’s mission is to support the Chinese Government in its effort to develop a society based on the rule of law and create a platform for European scholars and students to understand China’s legal system.
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