The 2019 Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship award ceremony was held in Beijing at Han Kun Law Offices on July 5, 2019. The scholarship is designed to finance advanced legal studies and is open to all law students currently studying at universities in China. The total amount of the award for 2019 is RMB 550,000.
Each of the following five candidates was awarded RMB 100,000:
Wang Wei –with a B.E. degree and an LL.B. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, an LL.M. degree from Tsinghua University, to study for a doctoral degree at Tsinghua University
Wang Yikai – with an LL.B. degree and a B.A. degree from Renmin University, to study at Harvard Law School
Zhang Jisen – with an LL.B. degree from Peking University, to study at Columbia University
Zhang Xi –with an LL.B. degree from Peking University, an LL.M. degree from New York University, to study at the University of Oxford
Zheng Junqiao –with an LL.B. degree from China University of Political Science and Law, to study at the University of Chicago
Each of the following five candidates was awarded RMB 10,000:
Bao Dingyurui – with an LL.B. degree from Fudan University and studying for an LL.M. degree at Renmin University, to study at the University of Michigan Law School
Feng Cencen – with an LL.B. degree from the University of International Business and Economics, to study at Harvard Law School
Li Shuping – with an LL.B. degree from Shandong University, to study at Cambridge University.
Wang Xiao – with an LL.B. degree from University of International Relations and an LL.M. degree from Beijing Normal University, to study at Stanford University
Yang Weiran –with a Bachelor of Management degree, an LL.B. degree and a LL.M. degree from Tsinghua University, to study at Harvard Law School
Han Kun launched the Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship in 2011 to finance advanced legal studies in China or abroad by law students selected from universities across the country who plan to pursue professional, academic or governmental positions in China.
The Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship has been a success from its inception. Many recipients of the Scholarship have become young leaders in their respective fields of work. This year, the Scholarship attracted applicants of exceptional talent from throughout the country. After several rounds of selection which featured written tests and interviews by Han Kun partners, 10 finalists were chosen to participate in the final round. The panel of judges consisted of two Han Kun partners and three professors from top Chinese universities who spent the entire day interviewing each of the 10 finalists to select five grand prize winners.
The panel representative congratulated the winners at the award ceremony and expressed great confidence that this year's recipients of the Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship would become leaders in their respective fields of work and make impactful contributions to the development of law in China.
