The Rhetoric of Rule of Law: Criminal Law Forum of Peking University Law School and Deheng Criminal Law Forum

Author: Chen Xingliang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: We are holding the Criminal Law Forum with a sense of mission. When the remarks from these forum events are translated into text, I can still read the sparks of intellectual collisions from these words. This book collects the content of the 25th to 36th sessions of the Criminal Law Forum. Although the issues discussed in these sessions are different, the theme is the same—this is the rule of law, or more precisely, criminal law and the rule of law. The Criminal Law Forum is the enlightenment of criminal law and the rule of law, as well as a call and a roar for it. The content of the Criminal Law Forum is very rich, and the thoughts are very profound, because it is a collective effort, distinguishing it from individual thinking. The Criminal Law Forum adopts a format of keynote speeches with comments, in addition to which, there are questions from the audience and responses from the guests. Through this form of discussion, a topic can be continuously supplemented and deepened, benefiting not only the audience but also the keynote speakers and commentators. The Criminal Law Forum is organized under the name of the Institute of Criminal Law Theory at Peking University. It is the result of the joint efforts of myself, Professor Chen Ruihua, Professor Bai Jianzhu, and Associate Professor Liang Genlin. Through the Criminal Law Forum, we aim to form a loose academic group, inspiring and learning from each other, inheriting and promoting the academic tradition of criminal law at Peking University Law School. This is the historical mission that we, as scholars of this generation, cannot shirk.