The mission of the rule of law

Author: Chen Xingliang
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Publish Date: 2001-12-01
Features: We came together with a sense of mission to promote the LXU Criminal Law Forum activities. When the spoken words from these forum discussions were transformed into written text, I could still sense the spark of intellectual collisions in these writings. This book collects the content of the first 12 sessions of the Criminal Law Forum. Although the topics discussed in these activities varied, the theme remained the same—this is the rule of law, more precisely, the rule of criminal law. The Criminal Law Forum served as an enlightenment for the rule of criminal law and also a call and a roar for it. The content of the Criminal Law Forum is extremely rich, and the thoughts are deeply profound, because it is a collective effort, distinct from individual thinking. The Criminal Law Forum adopts a format of keynote speeches combined with comments, in addition to which, there are questions from the audience and responses from the guests. Through this discussion format, a topic can be continuously supplemented and deepened, benefiting not only the audience but also the keynote speakers and commentators. The Criminal Law Forum was organized under the name of the Institute of Criminal Law Theory at Peking University. It was 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 formed a loose academic group, inspiring and learning from one another, inheriting and promoting the academic tradition of criminal law at Peking University Law School. It is our historical mission as scholars of this generation to carry forward and elevate this tradition.