The First National Seminar on Education on the Rule of Law for Non-law Major Students in Colleges and Universities in China Held in Beijing

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The First National Seminar on Education on the Rule of Law for Non-law Major Students in Colleges and Universities in China was held in Beijing on September 28, 2016. The seminar was sponsored by CASS Law Institute, organized by the Center for the Dissemination of and Education on the Rule of Law and Public Law Studies of CASS Law Institute, supported by the Department of Policies, Laws and Regulations of the Ministry of Education, and attended by about 200 government officials, experts, and scholars from various government organs, research institutions, colleges and universities throughout the country, including the Ministry of Education, the Supreme People’s Court, the State Council, the Ministry of Justice, departments of education under various provincial governments, China Law Society, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing University of of Posts and Telecommunications, Central University of Finance and Economics, China University of Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Communication University of China,Nankai University, North China Electric Power University, Shanxi University, Inner Mongolia University, Liaoning University, East China University of Political Science and Law, Wuhan University, Hunan University, Guangxi University, Hainan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Yunan University, Tibet University, and Qinghai University. At the seminar, which took “implementing in a deep-going way the Program on the Education of Teenagers on the Rule of Law and comprehensively advancing the education on the rule of law for non-law major students in colleges and universities” as its theme, the participants gave keynote speeches and carried out group discussions on wide variety of issues around this main theme. A total of forty articles had been submitted to the organizing committee of the seminar. After careful appraisal by an expert appraisal group, ten of these articles were selected as “excellent articles on education on the rule of law for non-law major students in colleges and universities in China”. Among them, one was awarded the first prize, two awarded the second prize, and seven awarded the third prize. A ceremony was held at the seminar for the awarding of the prizes. The seminar was widely reported by such mainstream media as Guangming Daily, China Education Daily, Legal Daily, Procuratorial Daily, and People’s Court Daily.