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" THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CENTRE FOR CHINESE LEGAL STUDIES AT THE SHAIKH AHMAD HASSAN SCHOOL OF LAW (SAHSOL), LUMS1 By Dr. Parvez Hassan2 Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, your Excellency, Mr. Wang Jiang, from the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China, Professor Li Fei, Vice President, Wuhan University, Mr. Justice Sardar Muhammad Shamim Khan, Chief Justice, Lahore High Court, Syed Babar Ali, and other members of the Management Committee, LUMS, Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Vice Chancellor. LUMS, Dr. Kamran Asdar, Acting Dean, SAHSOL, and Distinguished Guests: All my life, I have loved to dream. And, today, happily and most joyously, one of my dreams comes true. At the ground-breaking ceremony of this building of the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL) on 5 April 2014, I had expressed the hope: SAHSOL will, Insha Allah, lead change in legal education to be the nation's law school with a difference. It will constantly review its offered courses to accord with the changing needs of the future. It will be driven by the excellence of its core full-time faculty supported by the experience of the field offered by an adjunct faculty. Its governance will be merit-driven and a need-based financial aid policy will enable access to the disadvantaged. I had then also held out the vision of a Centre of International Legal Studies at SAHSOL. "The effort will be", I undertook, "to create a hub of Chinese Legal Studies in the region enabled by an exchange of faculty and students from law schools in China". At the inauguration of the SAHSOL in this Building, seventeen months later, on 12 September 2015. I reiterated in this very Room: The building that we open today has three (3) floors.... The third floor ... has been…