Since fall 2010, Fudan University School of Law has launched her LL.M. (Master of Laws) Program in Chinese Business Law to foreign lawyers, executives, students, and professionals engaging in international trade and/or interested in Chinese business and financial law. The language of instruction is English.
If you are a non-Chinese citizen, have received a first college degree, and have good command of English, you are eligible to apply. LL.M. degree will be granted to the candidates who have successfully completed the required course work, and fulfilled the requirements for a dissertation.
The LL.M. Program in Chinese Business Law requires the students to complete two-semester course study for 30 credits. The fall semester will be from August to December, and the spring semester from February to June. After completing the course study, the students need to submit a dissertation and pass the oral defense within two years since the enrollment in order to receive the degree. The students may complete the dissertation at Fudan, or at any other places as long as they return for the oral defense. The students who have successfully completed one or two semesters’ course work but decide not to write the dissertation will receive a certificate.
Each LL.M. student will be assigned an academic mentor/advisor for study and dissertation writing, and a Chinese student will be introduced to be their “buddy” to help them familiarize with the life in Shanghai. In addition, the School of Law will arrange regular academic and non-academic activities for both the foreign students and Chinese students so that they may communicate with and learn from each other.
Credits earned in the LL.M. Program by students from a foreign partner law school under an exchange agreement with Fudan University School of Law are transferable according to the agreement and the home school’s policy.