Professor Dong Heping, Vice President of Chinese Association of Constitutional Law, Comes to Give Lecture in HUTB
2020-12-03
On the evening of November 24, as invited, Professor Dong Heping, Vice President of the Chinese Association of Constitutional Law and doctoral tutor gave a theme lecturetitled“Chinese Characteristics and Institutional Innovation of Civil Code”, in Lecture Hall F201, Lezhi Building of HUTB. The lecture was presided over by Liu Qixiang, Dean of the School of Law & Public Administration and attended by members of the school’s management team and representatives of teachers and students.
In the lecture, Professor Dong Heping elaborated on the necessity of formulating the Civil Codeand its significance for the people and the national development. Through typical cases, he explained in detail the highlights of the Civil Codeon the legislation of property rights, personality rights, cyber infringement, marriage and family, etc. He systematically summarized the significance of the Civil Codein instructing people to live, work, and study in compliance with laws.
Professor Dong Heping is a well-known constitutional jurisconsult, doctoral supervisor, a distinguished professor of Qingdao University, and a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law. He is also a senior visiting scholar at Columbia University in the US, a senior research scholar at Oxford University in the U.K and Lund University in Sweden, a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and an Adjunct Professor of Kharkiv University in Ukraine. He has been long engaged in constitutional teaching and research, mainly researching in the areas of constitutional principles and Chinese constitutional reform issues. He has made some achievements in such fields as the sinicization of the constitutional system, the improvement of the People’s Congress system, the relationship between the Party and the state, the review of constitutional violations and constitutional supervision, human rights research, studies on the Basic Laws of Hong Kong and Macao, and the Constitutional System of Central Asia.
