The Institute for Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) is hosted in the Beijing Normal University. Beijing Normal University (BNU) has a history of more than 100 years, which is almost as long as the history of Chinese modern education. The University has developed from the Capital Metropolitan University established in 1902 to initiate teacher training in Chinese higher education. After several times of merging and reforming since 1949, especially in the 1980s, Beijing Normal University has developed into a diversified and comprehensive leading university in China. The Law School was formally set up in April 2006 and is now a legal teaching and research center in Beijing. IIPL will greatly benefit from the dynamic and multidisciplinary research environment.
IIPL was established on the basis of the China Open Access Project, which was first founded in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong in 2006. In the past three years, the project has coordinated the activities of a group of faculty associates and student fellows in both Beijing and Hong Kong. IIPL focuses on the Internet policy and cyberlaw research, teaching, legal clinics, and professional development, with an emphasis on international collaboration.
IIPL is one of the founding signatory parties of the Dynamic Coalition of Digital Education and the one of initiators of the Dynamic Coalition of Online Dispute Resolution at the United Nation’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It's one of the partners of Access-to-Knowledge Country Study of Information Society Project of Yale Law School. In 2008, IIPL moves to Beijing with its Director, Prof. Hong Xue, who is now a Professor at BNU Law School.
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