The World Fellows

Dean, Law School, Zhongshan University

As dean of the leading institution of legal education in southern China, Cai Yanmin strives to transform legal teaching and the practice of law in China. She has dedicated herself to clinical legal education techniques and public interest through instilling social justice education into the legal curriculum. As vice director of the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators, she helps train new clinicians from other universities around China and promotes academic research in clinical legal education and alternative dispute resolution. In 2008, Cai translated the book Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President -- and Won into Chinese and published the translated version in China. She received a grant from the China National Fund for Social Science to work on amendments to the Civil Procedure Law in China and has been actively promoting the practice of the procuratorate bringing environmental public interest litigation with the goal of adding this system to the revised civil procedure law.