Montreal university says training Chinese judges helps advance human rights
QUEBEC — A program that allows Chinese judges to come to Montreal to study Quebec law is helping to advance human rights in China, according to the Montreal university that administers it.
L’Universite de Montreal’s program offers Chinese judges the chance to study the fundamentals that underpin the province’s legal system, namely the combination of common and civil law as well as the administration of justice.
One of the school’s administrators says the program could eventually inspire reforms in China.
While the university has had links in China for 20 years, the judge’s program is a result of a co-operation agreement signed in 2014 between the school’s law faculty and China’s National College of Supreme Court Judges.