Professor Ulla Liukkunen spoke at the 6th Rule of Law Forum in Beijing

The Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS Law Institute) held its sixth Rule of Law Forum in Beijing from November 3 to November 5 2016. The theme of this year’s forum is Legal Reform and Rule of Law: a Comparative Perspective. Speakers invited to the forum consist of scholars and judges from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany and Russia. In addition to the opening and closing ceremony, there were 5 panels sessions and 25 talks in total. Topics discussed at the forum focused on the legal reform, legal culture and legal history of different countries. Speakers shared their views and experience on the issues related to the development of legal system in their home countries. Director of the Finnish China Law Center, professor Ulla Liukkunen was invited to speak at the forum.

The forum started with speeches given by prominent Chinese scholars and international scholars. Professor Zhang Wenxian, renowned scholar of Chinese civil law and vice chairman of the China Law Society opened the forum with a speech on the rule of law development in China. Professor César Landa, Universidad  Católica Del  Perú from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and professor Ulla Liukkunen discussed in their speeches why the rule of law experience in China is relevant to the rest of the world and growing emphasis on comparative law scholarship, respectively. Professor Li Lin, Director of the CASS Law Institute ended the opening ceremony with a speech on recent development of legal reform in China and the growing interest of comparative legal research among Chinese legal scholars and law-makers.

Following the opening ceremony, the forum held five individual panel sessions. During the closing ceremony, professor Simon Evans, professor Tomaz Giaro and professor Mo Jihong gave closing remarks on the importance of comparative legal research and the expansion of CASS law institute’s cooperation with foreign China law research centers.

 

 

By Dr. Zhang Yihong