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American lawyer and academic
Ronald J. Allen
is an American lawyer and the
John Henry Wigmore
Professor of Law at
Northwestern University
.
Education
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Allen completed his B.S. in 1970 from
Marshall University
in
Huntington, West Virginia
. He then received his J.D. in 1973 from the
University of Michigan Law School
.
Career
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He taught law at institutes such as the
University of Nebraska
and
State University of New York at Buffalo
in the 1970s. He became professor of law at
Northwestern University
in 1984. Since 1992, he has been the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University.
Allen is considered as one of the world's most distinguished scholars by entities including the
Ministry of Education
(中?人民共和??育部) of the
People's Republic of China
in the fields of evidence and procedure.
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For several years, he has been responsible for hosting and supervising the study and research of Chinese law faculty and students at Northwestern University.
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Honors and awards
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In 2007, Allen was awarded the
Yangtze River Scholar award
, the highest academic honor given by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. He became only the fourth American to receive this award, and the first law professor, domestic or foreign, to be so honored.
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