Welcome to a lecture on the developments in Chinese criminal law!

Globalization and increased inter-connectivity has posed new challenges to state governments across the world. Within the past decades, China has become increasingly emerged into the international arena, and is combating many of the same threats as western societies. Developing legislation against non-traditional threats such as terrorism has been an evolving issue, and many advancements have been made in this field in China as well.  Simultaneously, the Chinese government is dealing with domestic concerns such as corruption, as well as international criticism for its procedures in criminal conviction.

To accompany the tremendous pace of China’s economic development, Chinese criminal law has also made leaps to adapt to the increasingly internationalized context. Prof. Dr. Renwen Liu, Director of the Criminal Law Department  of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, will present the developments that have taken place in China’s criminal justice, such as new anti-terrorism and anti-corruption legislation. He will also present the reforms in Chinese death penalty, which have resulted in a significant drop in the number of death sentences in the past two decades.

Kimmo Nuotio, Professor of Criminal Law, and Dean of the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, will open the event.

The event will be held on Wednesday, February 15, at 14.15-15.45. The location is University of Helsinki, Porthania, room 545.

The China Law Center and the University of Helsinki Department of Development Studies jointly organized a guest lecture on “Policy making for sustainability in China. The role and constraints of institutionalized public participation” by Dr Daniele Bombal (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The lecture was held on 13 December 2016 and attracted participants from various fields of studies: law, environmental studies, development studies and chinese studies.

Abstract:

Despite retaining a restrictive political environment, in recent years the Chinese Party-State has introduced and strengthened various forms of institutionalized public participation. This trend has been particularly notable in policy areas neglected during the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, more likely to spur dissatisfaction among the Chinese populace.

In parallel with substantial efforts towards a more sustainable path of development, the Chinese leadership has shown a growing awareness over the need to encourage public engagement. Yet, the capacity of China’s institutionalized forms of participation to influence the outcome of policy processes and to promote citizens’ empowerment remains widely debated.

This lecture aims at providing an overview over the current state of affairs in China’s public participation, by focusing on policy areas related to social and environmental sustainability. In the first part of the lecture, different forms of public participation are introduced, providing concrete examples of their utilization. In the second part, a multi-criteria tool developed by researchers at Venice Ca’ Foscari University to evaluate public participation in environmental planning is introduced, and its possible applications are discussed.

The Finnish Center of Chinese Law and Chinese Legal Culture warmly welcomes you to participate in the guest lecture co-organized by Confucius Institute and the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki hosted the First Finnish-Chinese Colloquium on Criminal Law on 25-26 August 2016. The speakers discussed the transformation of criminal law and criminal law theory in Finland and China, sanctions and sentencing as well as criminalization and its limitations.

The event took place in a friendly atmosphere and the mutual respect enabled a genuine exchange of ideas. The insightful presentations gave a great starting point for lively and fruitful discussion that engaged not only speakers but also the audience constituted by over 20 criminal law scholars as well as legal advisers from the Finnish Ministry of Justice.

The colloquium was organized within the PKU-Helsinki Law Connection, a partnership between Peking University Law School and the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki. With such support from the Universities’ leaderships, the two faculties have now decided to deepen the co-operation and establish the “PKU-Helsinki Law Connection” in March 2015. Further development took place exactly a year prior the colloquium in the very same premises, when a delegation lead by Dean Professor Zhang Shouwen visited the Faculty on 24-25 August 2015.  The aim of this partnership is to consolidate and make more visible the already existing and fruitful co-operation as well as to develop new forms of collaboration for the mutual benefit. The goal is to make the existing forms of co-operation, lecture series, joint-seminars, joint publications and staff mobility, a part of the permanent structure of both institutions.

The Finnish Center of Chinese Law and Chinese Legal Culture, Hanken school of Economics and the University of Tampere warmly welcome you to participate in the 8th Sino-Finnish International Seminar on Comparative Law!

The Sino-Finnish International Seminar on Comparative Law brings together law professors from China and Finland to discuss current issues in the field of law. It is held in both countries alternately once a year.

This seminar will be held on 6 June 2016 in Helsinki and on 7 June 2016 in Tampere. This year seminar will focus on topics falling under the scope of intellectual property law, business law and taxation, as well as environmental law. The detailed program can be found on the event page.

The event is free of charge, but we kindly ask all interested to register by filling-in the online form available at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/70860/lomake.html by Friday, 3 June 2016.

The PDF invitation including the program can be download here.

The International Conference on “Road to New Paradigms: Impact of China’s Silk Road Initiative in China, Central Asia and the EU” has been successfully held on 9-10 May at Helsinki. The conference was jointly organised by Faculty of Law, Aleksanteri Institute, Faculty of Social Science, of University of Helsinki, and School of Law of Xi’an Jiaotong University, in collaboration with The New Silk Road Law Schools Alliance.

The China Law Research Workshop, held on 21-22 March 2016 in Helsinki, offered a unique opportunity for getting information and fresh insights on how to China related legal research. The Workshop, led by Professor Alan C. Neal and Professor Ronald Brown, furthered the understanding of the research landscape in the field of law. 

The invitation to the seminar has been widely circulated and over 50 participants, coming from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Germany and Poland. have registered. Therefore, in connection to the seminar, a separate networking meeting was organized to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and insights between researchers.