The delegation of French Embassy in Beijing, including the Regional Liaison Magistrate for Southeast Asia and the Far East of the Embassy Mr. Jean-Francois Redonnet, Attaché of University Cooperation of the Service of Cooperation and Cultural Activities of the Embassy Mr. Mickael Corbard, Managing Director of the French Foundation for Civil Law Ms. Anne- Charlotte Gros, Assistant of the Regional Liaison Magistrate Ms. Xiao Ping, Legal Cooperation Officer of the Legal Department of the Regional Liaison Magistrate Magalie Bourdier and Programme Officer of Higher Education, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Cooperation of the Service Ms. Juliette Jin visited the College on the morning of 4 July, 2024.
Dean of the College Prof. Xie Zhiyong met with the dignitaries on Haidian Campus. Director of the Centre for Faculty Development of CUPL Prof. Wang Wei, Prof. Zhang Li from the Institute of Rule of Law, Dr. Li Lin from the School of Juris Master, Dr. Song Bijun from the School of Foreign Studies and Deputy Director of the College Administrative Office Ms. Li Li attended the meeting.
Commissioned by the University leaders who were unable to attend the meeting for certain reason, Xie first extended a warm welcome on behalf of the University and the College to Redonnet and the delegation. He said, as the College and the Embassy has a long friendship, based on the results of earlier informal consultations between the two sides and taking into account the actual needs of the College’s Internationalised Legal Talents Experimental Class Programme (French Law), as well as absorbing the successful experience of similar programme in the past, the establishment of ‘China-France Law Institute’ and jointly training postgraduate and doctoral students in comparative law would greatly promote the development of foreign-related legal talents for the University, while cultivating more personnel in enhancing the exchange of law between China and France.
Redonnet thanked the College’s warm reception. According to him, the history of cooperation between the Embassy and CUPL has been long, particularly in recent years, the fact that most of the students who were sent to study in France by the Sino-French European Law Programme were from CUPL left him a deep impression. He greatly appreciated the faculty and student quality of the University in law and French studies, and said that the purpose of this visit was to further explore the concrete implementation plan of the cooperation on the establishment of ‘China-France Law Institute’ and its relevant student training programme, and that he was very confident of the formal cooperation between the two sides.
The two sides then had a full and in-depth exchange of views on specific issues, such as the mode and scale of student training, the selection of French side cooperative universities, scholarship funding, the establishment of coordination bodies between the two sides, the dispatch of French teaching faculty and the establishment of curricula between China and France, and reached an agreement to sign a cooperation memorandum of understanding and further detail the cooperation programme.
