The Third Sino-Polish Seminar on Comparative Law Held in Beijing

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The Third Sino-Polish Seminar on Comparative Law, jointly organized by CASS Law Institute, the Research Center for Law and Economy of China of the Law School of University of Warsaw, and Jagiellonian University in Cracow, was successfully held in Beijing on November 7, 2017. The seminar, which took “Legislation, Codification and De-codification” as its theme, was attended by over 20 experts and scholars from China and Poland. At the opening ceremony of the seminar, Professor Xie Zengyi, Head of Research Coordination and Foreign Cooperation Department of CASS law Institute, pointed out that the seminar, which was held at a time when the Communist Party of China had just made a series of new arrangements at its Nineteenth National Congress for ruling the country by law in an all-round way and China was codifying its civil law and revising its criminal law, was of great significance. In his speech, the Dean of the Law School of University of Warsaw introduced the members of the Polish delegation, the histories of the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Cracow, the two most famous universities in Poland, and the influences of Napoleonic Code and Russian laws on the legislation in Poland. Professor Zhou Hanhua, Assistant Director of CASS Law, gave an introduction to the current situation of legislation in China, including the codification of the civil law, and the revision of the criminal law and administrative law. At the seminar, which was divided into three units, the participants discussed various issues around the following topics: “codification and decodification”, “codification and legislative ideas and techniques”, and “codification and hot legislative judicial issues”.