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UMKC Professor Received Two Prestigious Awards from Chinese Government
UMKC
Law Professor Patrick Randolph has received the Beijing Great Wall Friendship
Prize from
the Beijing, China, Municipal Government at a ceremony in Beijing on January 12,
2006.
The prize, described as Beijing’s highest award given to a foreigner, is for
outstanding contributions to China over the course of a career. As many as 20
foreigners receive the Prize each year, most of them business persons who have
brought significant employment and investment to the area. But only a handful of
scholars have won the award. It is a prerequisite to a number of national level
awards for foreigners in China. Peking University, where Professor Randolph
directs several programs, nominated him for the award because of his many and
varied activities promoting clarity and enforcement in China’s legal system
regulating real estate markets.
Since arriving at Peking University to teach as a visiting professor in 1994,
Professor Randolph has returned annually, building up a wide array of programs
and activities involving students, faculty, government leaders, and real estate
lawyers and developers throughout China. He has lectured at fifteen Chinese law
schools, developed programs that have brought more than 50 visiting American
professionals to China to speak about real estate topics including brokerage,
finance, and condominium management, participated in forums for Chinese
officials on the development of China’s new proposed Basic Law of Property, and
published a book and eight articles (along with Peking University Associate
Professor Lou Jianbo), both in Chinese and English. He has also lectured widely
in the U.S. on Chinese real estate matters, including an appearance before a
joint Congressional/Executive Committee on Chinese affairs in Washington, D.C.
and several times to Chinese professors and lawmakers visiting at Yale
University. Professor Randolph’s critique of the then current draft of the Basic
Law was named one of the outstanding commercial law papers published in China in
2003.
Seven years ago, Professor Randolph and Professor Lou established the Peking
University Center for Real Estate Law with a "seed grant’ from First American
Title Insurance Company. The Center has raised more than half a million dollars
for educational programs in China, and currently has four faculty and thirty
students engaged in research and teaching programs throughout China. Peking
University sources believe that Professor Randolph is the first foreign director
of a research institute in the 100 year old history of this prestigious
institution.
In addition to his contributions to the development of China’s concept of rule
by law in real estate markets, Professor Randolph has involved himself in
educating the next generation of lawyers in China and in fostering understanding
of China among American law students. Seven years ago, he established a summer
school for American law students at Peking University. This year he expects
seventy enrollees from all over the world. He has solicited scholarships and
created education programs for Chinese students at UMKC Law School, which
annually enrolls as many as a dozen Chinese students. The prestigious Edgar Snow
Scholarship has drawn to Kansas City outstanding young Chinese scholars, a
number of whom have remained in the U.S. to assist local firms in developing
Chinese law practices. UMKC alums also are practicing law in Beijing, Shanghai,
Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Hangzhou, China.
Professor Randolph has accomplished all of this despite the fact that he is not
a specialist in Chinese law, speaks virtually no Chinese, and maintains a
significant presence in his "real" career as a real estate law professor and
legal consultant here in America. Realtor Magazine, a publication of the
National Association of Realtors, named Professor Randolph one of the twenty
five most influential people in American Real Estate in 2001. He lectures to
national audiences on real estate topics fifteen or more times each year, and
has spoken to state bar real estate groups in more than twenty states. Numerous
publications list him as one of the outstanding real estate lawyers in the
world. He founded and moderates DIRT, a popular internet discussion group for
real estate professionals, which reaches more than 2,500 primary subscribers
daily; and his popular "Daily Development" feature on DIRT is redistributed on
the internet far more widely each day among real estate practitioners. He serves
as a legal consultant to Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP law firm in Kansas City,
and his revision of the Friedman on Leasing (Randolph Edition) treatise, which
he has maintained for the last decade, is a well-known and highly valued
resource on American landlord/tenant law.
In his Kansas City home, Professor Randolph hosts numerous Chinese student and
faculty visitors. More than thirty Chinese students have lived with him in the home over the years, and those still
in the area return for holiday reunions to their American "home away from home."
The ceremony awarding the Great Wall Prize took place in Beijing on
January 12, 2006.
photo of Professor Patrick Randolph receiving the 2005 Beijing Great Wall Friendship Award on January 12, 2006
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Professor Patrick A. Randolph, Jr. received the Chinese National Friendship Award, the highest award the country of China gives to foreigners, in September 2008. Only those who have already received one of the municipal awards are eligible for the national prize. Premier WEN Jiabao presided over the awards ceremony.
The prize acknowledged Professor Randolph's work spanning more than fifteen years in China contributing to the development of law in the real estate area. He has given presentations to practicing law and government groups in every major Chinese city, and has lectured at more than twenty-five law schools in China. He has consulted with Chinese government officials in both the United States and China, and given presentations to professional real estate law groups and law schools throughout the USA. He has written extensively on Chinese real estate law and is considered a world-renowned expert in the field.
Professor Randolph credits his long association with Peking University and the tremendous support that he has received from the faculty there, in particular Vice President (and former Dean of PKU Law School) WU Zhipan, Dean ZHU Suli, Professor LOU Jianbo (Co-Director of the Center for Real Estate Law at PKU), Professor JIN Jinping, and Administrative Director YIN Ming.
photo of Professor Patrick Randolph receiving the Chinese National Friendship Award on September 26, 2008
National Friendship Prize journal
