The Center invites scholars specializing in Chinese law from China and Finland, as well as research institutions in Europe, the US and Asia to visit the Center and give give guest lectures based on their research findings. Lectures are attended by professors and researchers from the Center’s member institutions, students, as well as practitioners in the field of law, and they are also open to the wider public.
Guest lectures and related researchers’ visits provide substance for the Center’s activities, promote research, and create an opportunity to develop academic cooperation. The purpose of this series is to keep all interested informed about transformations within Chinese law as well as bring awareness of the research focus among China law scholars. Moreover, the guest lecture series aims to facilitate cross-border exchange of ideas and promote legal comparison. Since 2013, the Center has hosted numerous guest lectures by scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Italy.
- “The Past and the Future of Foreign Investment in China” by Senior Research Fellow Knut Pissler, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Center for Expertise in East Asian Law, April 3, 2013
- “The Social Life of Law in Rural China: Peasant Movements and the Search for Justice” by Professor Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo, April 18, 2013
- “China’s International Commercial Arbitration and International Investment Arbitration – A Key Review” by Professor Shen Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, KoGuan Law School, September 11, 2013
- “New Developments in Chinese Labour Law” by Associate Professor Xie Zengyi, CASS Law, September 25, 2013
- “Searching for Law and Order in China: Between Confucianism and Legalism” by Dr. Shi Daxiao, Fudan University, October 2, 2013
- “Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law” by Professor Teemu Ruskola, Emory University, October 7, 2013
- “The Interdisciplinarity of Justice: Researching Chinese Legal Culture and the Case Study of Rehabilitating ‘Unjust Cases’” by Professor Agnes Schick-Chen, University of Vienna, November 12, 2013
- “Developing Environmental Law in Developing China” by Professor Qin Tianbao, Wuhan University, March 10, 2014
- “Studying Asian Law in Translation: Considerations of Comparative Legal Linguistics” by Professor Heikki E.S. Mattila, University of Lapland, October 2, 2014
- “Welfare-Wellbeing-Harmony? Re ections on Migrant Labour Protection in the Greenland- China-DK Interrelation” by Professor Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen, April 21, 2015
- “Venture Capital in China: Law and Practice” by Assistant Professor Lin Lin, National University of Singapore, May 26, 2015
- “Death Penalty Reforms in China and the Development of Chinese Substantive Criminal Law” by Professor Su Jiang, PKU Law School, June 11, 2015
- “ADR and Arbitration of International Financial Disputes in Shanghai” by Professor Shen Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, KoGuan Law School, May 2, 2016
- “Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics” by Professor Ignazio Castellucci, University of Trento, May 11, 2016
- “The Legal Issues of China’s Ethnic Minority Cultural Inheritance and Development” by Professor Zhou Shaoqing, CASS, November 21, 2016, event co-organized with the Helsinki Confucius Institute
- “Policy making for sustainability in China. The role and constraints of institutionalized public participation” by Dr Daniele Brombal, University of Venice, December 13, 2016
- “Lecture on the developments in Chinese Criminal Law”by Prof. Dr. Renwen Liu,Director of the Criminal Law Department of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, February 15, 2017
- “Judicial reasoning in traditional China and its impact on modern China”by Du Junqiang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, April 20, 2017
- “Chinese Structure of Social Order in a Period of Transformation”by Professor Liu Zuoxiang, Shanghai Normal University,May 17, 2017
- “Entanglement between Judicial Centralization and Local Protectionism in China: the Case of Arbitral Awards Enforcement”by Professor Shen Wei, Shandong University, May 23, 2017
- “The Relationship between Party Regulations and National Law”by Professor Liu Zuoxiang, Shanghai Normal University, May 30, 2017
- “Biased Securities Regulators? Evidence from China”by Professor Xi Chao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 21, 2017
- “Codification of Civil Law in China: Recent Developments and Future Prospects”by Professor Long Weiqiu, Beihang University, November 29, 2017
- “Latest Developments in Chinese Intellectual Property Law” by Professor Jin Haijun, Renmin University, April 18, 2018
- “How Important is China’s Constitution in the Chinese Legal System?” by Assistant Professor Yan Tian, Peking University, April 18, 2018
- “Enforcement of Transnational Labor Standards by International Financial Institutions: a Chinese Perspective”by Yifeng Chen, Peking University, January 17, 2019
- “The judicial implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in Taiwan – observations on the decisions of the two Supreme Courts” by Professor William Hui-yen Hsu, National Dong Hwa University, September 13, 2019
- “Judicialization in Authoritarian Regimes: The Expansion of Powers of the Chinese Supreme People’s Court” by Professor Björn Ahl, University of Cologne, November 29, 2019
- “An Inquiry into the Continuing Development of Maritime Law in the PRC” by Professor Jason Chuah, City Law School, City University of London, April 20, 2021
- “Xunzi’s practical philosophy of governance; concepts of rites (li), law (fa) and social order and contemporary Chinese Party-State” by Professor Matti Nojonen, University of Lapland, May 24, 2021
- “China’s Challenge to International Human Rights Law: A Case of Synergic Corrosion” by Professor Eva Pils, King’s College London, June 15, 2022
- “International Law in Chinese Courts” by Professor Björn Ahl, University of Cologne, September 6, 2022