New Horizons: Qingdao | 青岛 • 新起点

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New Horizons: Qingdao

With its blend of architecture, cobbled streets, and hillside villas, Qingdao is a captivating city. It is also a major port and growing center of trade and manufacturing, home to many national and international brands. As a result, there is an increasing need for global legal talent to support these entities as they operate and expand.

Qingdao also is home to some of the finest law schools in Shandong province. Many students at these law schools recognize that they need to have an international legal education to participate in this growth and access these opportunities.

Against this background, Professor John Smagula made his first lecture trip to Qingdao last week. He spoke at China Ocean University on November 23 and Qingdao University law school on November 24, 2017.

Lecture in Qingdao University

“Qingdao has special meaning to me,” Professor Smagula reported, “as I first visited in 1991 when I was a student. In 2009, Temple and Tsinghua co-hosted a conference on experiential legal education in Qingdao, bringing together some of the most creative and thoughtful law professors in China and the United States.”

The 2009 conference on experiential legal education was coordinated by Tsinghua Professor Chen Jianmin and Temple Professor Eleanor Myers. The faculty who attended this program have become members of the Temple Law Alumni Association of China, many of whom report that they continue to use the skills they learned at this conference in their classrooms today.

Lecture in Ocean University of China

2017 marked John’s third visit to Qingdao, where he delivered his lecture, “U.S. Legal Education and its Recent Developments.” Both events were standing-room-only, as students had great interest and detailed questions on international legal education.  

November 23-24 correspond to the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday. John said, “This sure was a special way to spend the holiday. I’m grateful for the chance to witness the development of Qingdao and also to speak at law schools I haven’t visited before. I’m also grateful to our Class of 2012 alum Li Hongbo for joining me for a Qingdao Thanksgiving Dinner.”

Many thanks to Professor Yu Ming at OUC and Geng Yan at Qingdao University for making the arrangements and moderating the lectures at each school. Thanks, too, to the president of the Temple Law Alumni Association of China, Jiang Qi, for making the introductions. Jiang Qi is director of Beijing DHH Law Firm, which has a large presence in Qingdao.  

“I am overcome by everyone’s graciousness in Qingdao,” John remarked, “and I look forward to welcoming more students (and future alumni) from this wonderful city.”

青岛 • 新起点

      依山面海的别墅，鹅卵石街道，异国情调的建筑勾画出迷人的城市——青岛。作为中国东部的重要港口城市，青岛拥有国内外众多知名品牌入驻。随着制造业和贸易的不断发展，大企业和大公司为保障良好运营和市场拓展，对国际化法律人才的需求日益高涨。

       山东省几所优质的大学（法学院，系）都在青岛，同时越来越多的当地学生认识到要想在青岛快速前进的青岛发展过程中抓住机会，他们需要更加国际化的法学教育。

       新时代，新起点。2017年11月，桑国亚（John Smagula）教授青岛讲座正式开启。11月23日他访问了中国海洋大学法政学院法律系，24日到访青岛大学法学院。

青岛大学讲座现场

       桑教授说：“青岛对我来说有特殊的意义，学生时代的1991年我第一次来到青岛。2009年天普大学和清华大学在青岛联合主办了法学教育经验交流会，中美两国最具有思想性和创新性的法学教育者得以欢聚一堂。”

       清华的陈建民教授和天普的埃莉诺·迈尔斯（Eleanor Myers）教授是法学教育经验交流会的主办人，当年参加过这个交流会的一些老师现在已是天普大学中国校友会的成员了，至今，他们中的很多人仍还在运用他们在交流会所学到的技巧进行教学，可谓影响深远。

       今年，桑教授第三次来到青岛，做“美国法学教育与最新发展”的讲座。青岛大学和中国海洋大学的两场活动座无虚席，学生们兴趣盎然、踊跃提问。

中国海洋大学讲座现场

       11月23-24日恰巧是美国的感恩节假期。桑教授今年的感恩节假期很特别。他非常感谢能有机会见证青岛的发展并能在之前从未到访过的大学举办讲座，也感谢天普2012届的校友与他共进感恩节晚餐。

       感谢中国海洋大学的于铭和青岛大学的耿焰两位教授为讲座做出的安排并主持了讲座。还要感谢的是天普法学中国校友会主席蒋琪的介绍。蒋琪是北京德和衡律师事务所的总监，该所在青岛有大量的业务。

       再见，好客山东的青岛朋友们，桑教授期待未来能有更多的青岛学生成为天普的校友。