Academic Seminar on “Frontier Judicial Issues relating Cyberspace Crimes” Held in Beijing

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On April 22, 2017, the academic seminar on “Frontier Judicial Issues relating Cyberspace Crimes” was successfully held in Beijing. The seminar was attended by over 40 persons, including scholars from various universities and research institutions, including the CASS, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Normal University, Zhejiang University, China Youth University for Political Sciences, and Northwest University of Political Science and Law, experts from public security and judicial organs, including the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, Public Security Bureau of Beijing Municipality, the First Division of Beijing People’s Procuratorate, the Public Security Bureau of Nanjing City, the Intermediate People’s Court of Nanjing City, and the People’s Court of Haizhu District of Guangzhou City, technical and legal experts from Alibaba Group, and reporters from Legal Daily, Procuratorial Daily and other mass media. The seminar was divided into three sessions. In the first session, four experts and scholars gave keynote speeches on a series of challenges faced by traditional criminal law in the era of Internet age and on some frontier issues of criminal law theory, criminal law legislation and administration of criminal justice relating to cyberspace crimes; the second session was divided into two units: “practical perspective” and “theoretical perspective”, in which ten scholars and experts gave presentations on various issues relating to the theme of the seminar, including the mutation of traditional crimes in the Internet age, difficult issues in the handling of telecom fraud cases, criminal jurisdiction over cyberspace crimes, determination of e-evidence, the Internet context of the crime of damaging the business reputation of others and the crime of sabotaging production or business operation, the criminal responsibility of credit speculation and reversed credit speculation, the economy of criminal law and judicial activism, the necessity and legitimacy of criminal punishments for new-type cyberspace crimes, the boundary between expanded interpretation and analogical interpretation, and the principle of legally prescribed punishment for a specified crime and substantive interpretation. The third session was free discussion, in which the participants raised questions and expressed their opinions on the issues discussed in the two previous sessions.