Prof. Arie Reich’s Remarks for the Signing Ceremony of a Student Exchange Program between Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law and UIBE Law School

Thank you very much and I’m very happy to be here. First of all, I want to thank Dean Wang and his distinguished staff and distinguished students for your wonderful hospitality. For the last 2 days, I’ve really been receiving the red carpet treatment. In all means, I experienced what Chinese hospitality means and I’m also very happy to have this opportunity of signing this cooperation agreement.

I truly believe that the people of China and the people of Israel have very much in common. And I really think that we should do as much effort as possible to deepen our relationships and deepen our cooperation. We are both very ancient people with very ancient traditions and at the same I also think we’re that we are people with great futures. I think that China definitely is where the future lies and Israel is also where the future lies. Look at the very simple fact that right now most of the Western world is in deep recession, both EU facing the euro crisis and United States are trying to get themselves out of the crisis. At the same time, both Israel and China have maintained a steady growth rate, very different from the recession in the EU and United States. Our economy is booming, and in the last decade, no less than 6 Israeli scientists have won the Nobel price, both in chemistry and in economics. This is only in the last ten years. So Israeli universities and the Israeli people are in the forefront of today’s science.

I’m very happy to sign this cooperation agreement. I think the cooperation is a win-win exercise. Everybody can win from it. There are three basic components of the cooperation agreement that we’re going to sign. One is the student exchange, which will allow a few Bar-Ilan students to come here to UIBE to learn for a term. They will get to know more about China, more about the Chinese people, the Chinese legal system and the Chinese economy, and make friends and connections. And similarly, UIBE students will come to Bar-Ilan in the fall semester to study for two and a half months both with Bar-Ilan professors and many other international professors that we bring in for this program. We have brought in professors from the leading universities of the world, such as University of Pennsylvania, University of Columbia, Yale and many other important universities that we have worked with. Of course they will study in classes together with other international students and with Israeli students. And we also have extra-curricular activities, such as to show them around to see part of the country, to see Jerusalem, the Supreme Court, the old city, the holy places, and to see part of the Arabic neighborhoods and so on.

Another component is the faculty exchange that will allow the exchange of professors. Once a year, a Bar-Ilan professor would come here to teach a short course, and a UIBE professor would come to Bar-Ilan to teach a short course. And this would contribute to our relationship of equal understanding and connections, maybe even to do research program together.

And the third component is the Ph.D. program, where we have proposed the possibility of a joint Ph.D. whereby UIBE Ph.D. students who are able to write their dissertation in English will be supervised by two professors, one from UIBE and one from Bar-Ilan. If he is a UIBE student, he would spend one or two terms in Bar-Ilan. And the other way around, if he is a Bar-Ilan student, he would be in here in UIBE for a term or two. In the end, this is our idea, you will receive a degree from our university and you will receive the degree of UIBE. The students would receive two diplomas---he would have the Ph.D. both from UIBE and from Bar-Ilan.

So these are the three components, I think there’s a lot of potential, and if there are other ways of cooperation of course we’re open to think about it. You know one thing would bring another, the idea that everything is possible to have close connections and cooperation of mutually beneficial connection between both our excellent institutions. I wish us all Good Luck for this program!

The Chinese Translation:

Arie Reich教授在对外经贸大学法学院与以色列巴依兰大学法学院学生联合培养项目签字仪式上的讲话

非常感谢，很荣幸能来到贵校。首先，我想感谢王院长和贵校优秀的工作人员和同学们热情的接待。在过去的两天，我受到了热情的贵宾级招待，亲身感受了中国式的热情。我非常荣幸能有这个机会签署合作协议。

我深切地认为，中国人民和以色列人民有许多共通之处，两国人民应当尽最大努力加深彼此间的关系与合作。我们的国家都具有悠久的历史，有着深厚的民族传统。同时，两国又都面临良好的发展机遇。我认为中国当然的拥有良好的发展前景，以色列也是同样。现今，许多西方国家正在面临严峻的危机，如面临欧元危机的欧盟和美国都在试图从经济危机中恢复过来。然而，以色列和中国却都保持了平稳的发展步伐，与欧盟和美国的情形截然不同。两国的经济和科技都处在蓬勃发展的阶段。在过去的十年间，以色列已经有六、七位科学家获得了诺贝尔奖，涵盖了物理、化学、经济学等。因此，以色列大学和以色列科学家目前处于科学研究的前沿。

我非常荣幸能签署这个协议，这是一个双赢的合作。合作协议有三个主要部分，第一部分是学生交换。在此项目下，巴依兰大学的学生会来到对外经济贸易大学进行为期一个学期的学习。他们将了解中国，中国人民，中国的法律制度和经济状况，同时结交中国朋友。类似的，贵校的学生也可以到在秋季学期来到巴依兰进行两个半月左右的学习。授课的教授既有巴依兰本校教授，又有为本次项目引进的国际教授。我们从世界最顶尖的大学引进了一批教授，包括宾夕法尼亚大学、哥伦比亚大学，耶鲁大学和其他我校经常合作的学校。交换学生将与其他国际学生同班上课。另外我们还有课外活动，组织学生参观耶路撒冷、最高法院、旧城、圣城等，以了解这个国家。

合作的另一个项目是教师交流。每年，巴依兰大学的教授将来到贵校进行短学期的教学，而贵校的老师也会到巴依兰进行短期授课。这将有助于彼此之间的理解和合作，可能还会进行共同的研究项目。

第三个项目是Ph.D.合作项目，我们提议进行Ph.D.联合培养。有能力用英语进行申请的贵校Ph.D.学生将有两名导师同时指导，一名巴依兰教授，一名贵校教授。如果是贵校学生，将有一至两个学期在巴依兰大学。类似地，如果是巴依兰的学生，将在某段时间内在贵校学习。最后我们的设想是，参加该项目的学生能同时获得巴依兰和贵校的毕业证明，即该生能同时获得贵校和巴依兰的Ph.D.学历。

上述就是我们此次合作协议的三个主要部分。当然如果有其他的设想也还可以进行考虑，因为我们认为，只要是有助于两校之间合作和关系的项目都可以进行合作。预祝项目取得圆满成功！

（翻译：冷欢，对外经济贸易大学法学院国际法学硕士研究生）