The World Fellows

A dean of the Law School of Zhongshan University, the leading institution of legal education in southern China, Cai Yanmin is transforming legal teaching and the practice of law in China. Collaborating with faculty from American universities and across China, Cai recently launched a clinical law program, a novel approach to legal education in China. She also directs the law school's international affairs and graduate students program.

 

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Cai has been dedicated to the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) and public interest area through instilling social justice education into the legal curriculum at her university and throughout China. Cai launched and directed the clinic program at her university; it was awarded first prize for teaching achievements in Guangdong Province. As vice director of the China Clinical Legal Education Committee, she helps to train new clinicians from other Chinese universities, promotes academic research into clinical legal education, and edited the first column on CLE in Global Law Review (2005). As a representative to the People’s Congress of Guangdong Province and a member of the Law Committee of the Provincial Congress, Cai is alo active on provincial legislation. She received an award from the National Fund for Social Science for revisions to the Chinese Civil Procedure Code. She translated Dispute Resolution-Negotiation, Settlement and other Processes and Storming the Court--How a Band of Yale Law Students fought the President and Won. Cai just won two difficult contract cases involving infringement of university intellectual property as well as judicial corruption. She is currently representing 11 high profile product liability cases involved in fake medicine and personal damages. The national media closely covered the litigation process.