From 14 to 25 November 2016, a delegation of ILF representatives visited a total of 16 universities in Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan and Beijing, China, to present the contents of the Master of Laws in International Banking, Securities and Finance (“LL.M. International Finance”) for Asian graduates to the university faculties and to interested students.
The delegation was led by Dr. Rolf Friedewald, Managing Director of the ILF. He was accompanied by Mr. Xiang Li to Shanghai, Chengdu and Wuhan. At Fudan University, Shanghai, Dr. Friedewald also held a lecture on the sources of European Finance Law. In Beijing, Dr. Michael Weller, Attorney-at-Law, retired Partner of Clifford Chance and Lecturer at the ILF, joined the ILF delegation and held lectures at the universities on International Banking Law.
The following universities were the venues of the presentations and lectures of the ILF delegation in the presence of the Deans, Vice-Deans, International Program Directors and distinguished Law and Finance Professors of the respective Law Schools as well as the numerous students who were interested in law and finance and in the postgraduate, one-year Master of Laws program for lawyers, business graduates and economists offered exclusively in the English language by the ILF in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Shanghai:
- Jiaotong University, School of Law
- East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL)International School of Financial Law, Graduate School
- Fudan University, School of Law
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE), School of Law
- Tongji University, School of Law
Chengdu:
- Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), School of Law
Wuhan:
Beijing:
- Peking University, School of Law
- Tsinghua University, School of Law
- Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Law (BUAA, often called Beihang in short)
- Beijing Foreign Studies University, School of Law (BFSU)
- Beijing Normal University, School of Law (BNU)
- China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL)
- China Youth University of Political Sciences (CYUPS)
- Central University of Finance and Economics, School of Law (CUFE)
- Minzu University, School of Law
- University of International Business and Economics, School of Law (UIBE)
The positive responses of the audiences and representatives of the Chinese universities to the visit of the ILF delegation and to the presentations were overwhelming and the members of the delegation felt very welcomed by their Chinese colleagues and by the Chinese students. The close cooperation and friendly atmosphere of the talks between the university representatives during this visit will strongly benefit the exchange of faculty members and students and also the academic success of the universities in China and Germany in the near future.
Alumni Roundtables (ARTs) in Shanghai and Beijing, China
An alumni meeting with Chinese graduates of the ILF was one of the highlights of the tour to China. On 13 November 2016, Dr. Rolf Friedewald, Managing Director accompanied by Mr. Xiang Li spent an evening with graduates of the ILF living and working in Shanghai. On 20 November 2016, a second Alumni Roundtable was held in Beijing. Dr. Friedewald and Dr. Michael Weller, Attorney-at-Law, retired Partner of Clifford Chance and Lecturer at the ILF together with Chinese graduates based in Beijing attended this event. At both events, they reminisced about the past and thought about the future of networking among the international student body of the ILF.
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