The 2018 Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship award ceremony was held in Beijing at Han Kun Law Offices on July 12, 2018. 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 2018 is RMB 550,000.
Each of the following five candidates was awarded RMB 100,000:
Gu Rong – from Tsinghua University, to study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Tao Ye – from Beijing Normal University, to study at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
Xu Yelin – from Renmin University, to study at Harvard Law School
Zhang Tianbai – from Peking University, to study at Harvard Law School
Zhong Yuxiang – from Tsinghua University, to study at Harvard Law School
Each of the following five candidates was awarded RMB 10,000:
Ji Dongmei – from Peking University, to study at the University of California, Hastings College of Law School
Li Meiyi – from Nanjing University, to study at the University of Oxford
Rong Xueqian – from University of International Business and Economics, to study at Peking University
Wang Liangyi – from China University of Political Science and Law, to study at the University of Chicago
Ying Yun – from Renmin 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 over a hundred 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.
Han Kun partner Li Xiaoming served as head of the panel of judges and said at the award ceremony: "We feel very fortunate to have so many top talents participate in our scholarship program and we are so proud to have the opportunity to witness and nurture the future growth of such talents. We are confident that recipients of the Han Kun Youth Legal Scholarship will become leaders in their respective fields of work and will make impactful contributions to the development of law in China."
