Liu Renwen: Adjudicative Documents Should Be Made Open to the Public

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On December 3, 2016, the Seventh Bohe Law Forum, jointly organized by Shanghai Bohe Law Firm and the Criminal Law Research Committee of Shanghai Law Society, was held at East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai. The seminar took “Criminal Law Theory and Practice in the Era of Big Data” as its theme and was attended by over 200 scholars, judges, procurators, and lawyers from through the country. At the seminar, the participants gave speeches and carried out discussions on various issues around the theme of the seminar and agreed that big data may bring about many new types of crime that may pose challenges to the traditional criminal law theory. They gave comprehensive interpretations and explanations of criminal law theory and practice in the era of big data, with a view to further improving the criminal law theory and criminal judicial practice in China. Professor Liu Renwen, Head of the Criminal Law Department of CASS law Institute, attended and gave a speech at the seminar. At the speech, he pointed out that the publication of adjudicative documents is a manifestation of criminal law practice in the era of big data. However, in the process of make adjudicative documents public, a distinction should be made between felony and misdemeanor. Moreover, it is not practical to require all adjudicative documents to be made public because some documents involving state secret should not be disclosed.