On the morning of July 3, 2026, Professor Fang Quan, Associate Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), led a delegation to the School of Law, Fudan University for exchange activities. Du Yu, Dean of the School of Law, Li Shigang, Vice Dean, and heads of relevant departments attended the symposium. Both sides held in-depth discussions on joint training of rule-of-law talents from Shanghai and Macao, two-way faculty exchanges, and cross-border legal research cooperation. Accompanying Dean Fang were Yi Zaicheng, Assistant Dean of the MUST Faculty of Law; Mou Xiaobo and Zhou Ting, Program Directors; and Assistant Professor Chen Qin.
During the symposium, Dean Fang briefed participants on the overview of the MUST Faculty of Law. She noted that leveraging Macau’s unique geographic status as a convergence point for Chinese and Western legal systems, the faculty adopts a dual-track teaching model covering Laws of Chinese Mainland and Macau laws. It has established a complete three-tier training system for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, offering seven master’s programs as well as two doctoral tracks in Law and Juris Doctor, including cutting-edge specializations such as Criminal Justice, International Arbitration and Artificial Intelligence Law. Full-time faculty collaborate with Macau judges, prosecutors, lawyers and other legal practitioners to deliver integrated teaching. She expressed hopes for deeper joint development in student and faculty exchanges, reciprocal faculty appointments and cross-border rule-of-law research, to jointly foster legal professionals and advance regional rule-of-law development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Dean Fang Quan
Dean Du Yu extended a warm welcome to the MUST delegation. He introduced that Fudan Law School boasts profound academic heritage and multiple national-level bases for rule-of-law talent training. Upholding an educational philosophy featuring international vision, practice orientation and interdisciplinary integration, the school holds prominent disciplinary strengths in foreign-related rule of law, digital law and commercial law. Capitalizing on Shanghai’s international advantages, it maintains long-term partnerships with more than 70 law schools worldwide and consistently produces high-quality academic research and policy consultancy outputs for rule-of-law think tanks. Dean Du pointed out that as a core hub of the Greater Bay Area, Macau enjoys unique strengths in comparative law teaching between Mainland and Macau legal systems. The two schools possess highly complementary academic resources, and he looked forward to building regular, project-based cooperation platforms to enable mutual empowerment of legal education in Shanghai and Macao.
Dean Du Yu of Fudan Law School
Both sides reached a host of consensus on boosting legal collaboration between Shanghai and Macao. They agreed to move past fragmented short-term exchanges and expand cooperation dimensions, establishing a multi-layered collaborative system centered on key areas including Greater Bay Area rule of law, cross-border commercial arbitration and AI law. Four major cooperation directions were confirmed in the talks. The two sides plan to broaden two-way student exchange channels and develop diverse training modes including short-term visiting programs, thematic research workshops and high-level joint cultivation. They will also build regular faculty communication platforms and launch mechanisms such as joint teaching, academic lectures and cross-appointment of practice supervisors. In addition, the two institutions will strengthen cross-regional academic collaboration to jointly research frontier legal topics via respective research platforms, co-host seminars and share research outcomes. They will further promote the exchange of teaching resources, sharing experience in foreign-related legal studies, interdisciplinary law and practical training to upgrade talent training systems on both sides.
Dean Fang Quan Presents Souvenirs to Dean Du Yu (Left)
Group Photo
This symposium establishes a stable communication channel between the Fudan Law School and the MUST Faculty of Law, marking a new phase of targeted matching, in-depth integration and mutual progress for legal schools in Shanghai and Macao. Going forward, both institutions will follow pragmatic, long-term cooperation principles and set up permanent liaison mechanisms. They will integrate high-quality disciplinary resources and roll out cooperative projects in phases, joining forces to train interdisciplinary cross-border legal professionals, innovate regional legal theories and conduct joint research on Greater Bay Area rule of law, so as to contribute to sound rule-of-law development and high-quality legal education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
