The Eleventh Roundtable on Cyberspace and Information Law and the Seminar on “Digital China and Legislation on Digital Economy” were held in Beijing on May 11, 2018. The event was jointly sponsored by CASS Law Institute and Cyberspace and Information Law Research Committee of China Law Society and jointly organized bythe Editorial Board of the Journal of Cyber and Information Law, the Team of the Innovation Project “Construction of Big Cyber Power and Legal Innovation” and CASS Center for Cultural Law Studies. It was attended by over40 experts, including scholars in the fields of law, economics, and political science, and representatives from state regulatory organs, industries and the new media.
The event was presided over by Professor Zhou Hui, Vice Secretary General of Cyberspace and Information Law Research Committee of China Law Society and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber and Information Law.At the opening ceremony, Professor Zhou Hanhua, Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary General of Cyberspace and Information Law Research Committee of China Law Society, Director of CASS Center for Cultural Law Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber and Information Law, gave a speechin which he introduced the background of the roundtable and the theme of the seminar and stressed that the development of digital economy is propelling the paradigm change of the traditional rule of law.
In the keynote speeches and discussions that followed, the experts and scholars expressed their views and put forward suggestions on the construction of “Digital China” and the legal system of digital economy in China from the perspectives of their own fields of specialization.
At the closing ceremony, Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute, gave a summarization of the seminar. He pointed out that CASS Law Institute attaches great importance to the research of the legislation on digital economy and the construction of discipline of cyberspace and information law and hoped that, in the future, the institute would take a leading position in China in the research in this field.
The roundtable was sponsored by the Cyberspace and Information Law Research Committee of China Law Society, and jointly organized by CASS Center for the Study of Culture and Legal System, Cyberspace and Information Law Department of CASS Law Institute and the Alliance of New Governance Think Tank. It is an interdisciplinary and cross-cutting small pragmatic meeting mechanism participated by the government, the internet and information industry, the academic circle and the mass media. Its purpose is to facilitate discussions on major issues in the development of the legal system of cyberspace and information and to provide advices and suggestions to the government on dealing with these issues.