Jeffrey Lehman was the Founding Dean of STL and continues to serve in the honorary capacity of Chancellor of STL. He is a former president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, clerk on the United States Supreme Court, and chair of the board of Internet2. Chancellor Lehman currently serves as the Founding Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai. His other positions include serving as an independent director of Infosys Ltd. and as a member of the advisory board of the Nazareth Academic Institute.

Stephen Yandle is Vice Dean Emeritus of the Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL), having served as the school’s Associate Dean 2009-2012, Acting Dean 2012-13, and Vice Dean 2013-15. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. He has served as Assistant Dean at the University of Virginia, as Associate Dean at the Northwestern University Law School, as Associate Dean of the Yale Law School, as Deputy Consultant on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the American Bar Association, and as Vice President for Global Law School Programs at LexisNexis. He has also served as Chairperson of the Section on Administration of Law Schools of the Association of American Law Schools (“AALS”), President of the National Association for Law Placement (“NALP”), and member of the AALS Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. Since 2019 he has served as Commissioner for WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), one of the six regional higher education accrediting associations in the United States. In China he serves on the Advisory Committee on the Internationalization of Shenzhen and on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He teaches Discrimination and the Law and Constitutional Law at STL. At the Yale Law School he taught about diversity in higher education.

Philip McConnaughay is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at STL and a former vice-chancellor of Peking University’s Shenzhen Graduate School. Before joining STL, he was founding dean of Penn State University’s law school and School of International Affairs. Prior to joining Penn State, he was a professor of law at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and before that a partner of the international law firm, Morrison & Foerster, resident for almost 10 years in Tokyo and Hong Kong. McConnaughay is the author of numerous scholarly articles and edited books concerning international commercial dispute resolution, the regulation of international commerce, and the role of arbitration in economic development. He serves on the editorial board of the Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law. As a practising lawyer, McConnaughay was involved in some of the major antitrust and intellectual property disputes of the day. He has served as an adviser to the government of Indonesia with respect to the drafting of a new national arbitration law, and has been active throughout his career in a variety of public interest and pro bono matters.