Building on Peking University School of Transnational Law’s (STL) tradition of exceptional performance in the CIETAC Cup, the school’s 2016 Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team placed third out of forty-six teams from across China.

STL Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Susan Finder, a leading expert on China’s judicial system, recently was interviewed about transparency in the Chinese legal system.

On November 16 and 17, STL hosted Professor Robert Merges, the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Peking University Transnational Law Review has completed its AY2016-2017 selection process for member editors and a new executive board.

Professor Dr. Stephan Jaggi’s new book, The 1989 Revolution in East Germany and its Impact on Unified Germany’s Constitutional Law – The Forgotten Revolution? (Hart and Nomos 2016), is receiving critical acclaim as a “path-breaking” and “seminal analysis” of East Germany’s 1989 Revolution.

Professor Sang Yop Kang was an invited speaker at the 21st Century Commercial Law Forum, 16th International Symposium, hosted by Tsinghua University Law School, October 29-30, 2016.

Professor Mark Feldman was one of several leading experts invited to speak at the October 27, 2016 Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Seminar in Seoul, Korea focusing on “Current Issues in International Investment Arbitration.”

4L student Jiang Shan has returned to STL following a several month externship with the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington D.C.

Professor Zhu Daming’s new Japanese to Chinese translation work, The Spirit of Corporate Law, was published by China Law Press in October, 2016.