Jones Day and Peking University have joined forces to establish a chair-professorship fund to support the study of globalisation and the rule of law, with the aim of adapting findings to solve the problems of a rapidly developing China.
Jones Day announced on 31 May the establishment of the Peking University/Jones Day Chair Professorship for Globalisation and Rule of Law.
This chair professorship fund is a university-level fund managed by the Peking University Education Foundation, and will recruit professors from the university’s faculty of law.
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The candidate should be a leading scholar in China with prominent academic achievements recognised by academic circles at home and abroad.
The chair professor recruited by the fund will conduct courses and perform valuable research according to arrangements from the faculty of law. The fund for the chair professorship is supported by Jones Day’s non-profit foundation, funded by donations from the firm’s lawyers and staff. Stephen Brogan, the firm’s managing partner, presented the donation of RMB5 million (US$780,000) to Peking University on 31 May.
Zhang Shouwen, head of the university’s faculty of law, said that in his first meeting with Brogan last year, they discussed “the trend of globalisation and the essential and far-reaching impacts this trend will bring on the rule of law”.
Zhang said both of them agreed that it is necessary to establish a chair professorship that specialises in the research and study of globalisation and the rule of law, with the aim to “better solve problems arising as development pains” and “better promote the reform and progress of China”.
Brogan said: “The foundation’s gift is intended to support Peking University’s distinctive leadership in training students in the most important traditions of the legal profession.”
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