Chinese Business and Commercial Law

The program's objective is to provide foreign law professionals and students a foundation in Chinese law, while ensuring their adaption to a Chinese cultural and working environment.
Designed to expose students to both the legal theory and legal practice, the program includes full-time study of the law in the first year and the option of writing a thesis or participating in an internship in the second year.
LLM applicants are welcome to apply from different career backgrounds, including lawyers working in private law firms and government, government officials, law educators, businessmen and businesswomen and law school J.D. gradutates.
The LLM program runs for a period of 2 years.
The first year is for taking the classes and the second year is for completing the dissertation and taking internships.

Compulsory & Optional Courses

Compulsory Courses		Optional Courses
Introduction to Chinese Law	Chinese Political and Legal System	Chinese Contract Law	Legal Writing
Chinese Tort Law	Chinese Company Law	Chinese Constitutional and Administrative Law	Legal Research
Chinese Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure	Basic Chinese Language	Foreign Trade Laws and Regulations in China	Introduction to Common Law System
Foreign Investment, Merger and Acquisition in China	Chinese Intellectual Property Law	Chinese Civil Procedure & Arbitration Law	Intellectual Property Law
Chinese Banking Law and Capital Markets	Chinese Insolvency Law and Corporate Reorganizations	Chinese Labor Law and Social Security	Investment Law

2.2 Trial Classes

There are some free trial classes available online for prospective students to get a feel for the program.
These introductory classes cover the following areas of Chinese law.

Introduction to the Rule of Law in China	Setting up or acquiring a business in China	China Bankruptcy Law
China & the WTO: Current Issues	Dispute Resolution Processes in China	China Anti-Monopoly Laws

The LLM Program focuses on Chinese civil law and commercial law with an examination of international and commercial business transactions.
The LLM Program in China Business and Commercial Law is designed for international graduate students and professionals coming from different backgrounds and countries and different legal systems.
Living in an international community is what makes studying at BFSU Law different and unique from other law schools in China.
Designed for non-Chinese students, the courses are taught only in English.
Scholarship available for excellent students.

Please upload your finished application form here.

3 recent passport-sized photos of the applicant

With name, passport number & expiration date, and photo included

TOEFL or IELTS (Majors delivered in English).

Graduation certificate in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.

Academic transcript in languages other than Chinese or English should be translated into Chinese or English and be certified by notarization.

Personal Statement with the applicant's signature, written in Chinese or in English.

The faculty comes from varied backgrounds in the legal profession bringing expertise and experience.
The professors are respected scholars, legal practitioners, jurists,legal theorists and researchers.
The School has professors who have doctoral degrees and are nationally and internationally recognized al well as adjunct faculty, including leading Justices of the Supreme People's Court, senior judges and prosecutors, partners of leading international law firms, in-house counsel of state-owned enterprises and financial institutions and multinational companies in China.