[Rednet] Professor from Oxford University Invited to “Lushan Lecture” in Hunan University of Commerce
2016-06-20
Changsha Rednet reported on April 22 (journalist/Liu Yibing, Correspondents/Chen Xinming, Hu Huimei) A summit forum for clean government think tank was held in Hunan University of Commerce, sponsored jointly by Hunan Collaborative Innovation Center of Clean Government Construction and China Culture Research Association of Integrity. Attendants were experts from governments, media as well as institutes of higher learning like Social Law Research Center and Wolfson School in Oxford University, CPC Hunan Provincial Party School, Hunan University, Hunan University of Commerce, to discuss about the construction of a clean government think tank. In this forum, well-known professors from Oxford University were invited to Yuelu Lecture Hall in Hunan University of Commerce, and gave high level academic lectures to all the teachers and students.
On the afternoon of April 21, Denis Galligan, a professor from Law School of Oxford University, a scholar from Wolfson School of the same university, as well as the initiator of Discipline of Social Law gave teachers and students a lecture called “Anti-corruption and Due Process: A Potential Partner”. He embodied the significance of due process in the law system from the perspective of identifying the meaning of corruption in the field of public power, demonstrated the fact that public rights originate from the mass people by examples beginning with “the people’s” in many countries’ constitution, analyzed that only the combination of anti-corruption and due process could truly guarantee the common benefit without being eroded by the private benefit. Professor Denis illustrated how to ensure the legal purpose of anti-corruption through the due process, and exemplified how to protect the public rights from being alienated into the instrument for personal purpose.
On the evening of April 21, Yu Yin, a researcher from Competition Law and Policy Research Institute, Wolfson School of Oxford University, and a chief researcher from Global Consumer Protection Law and Policy Research Center of Wuhan University, brought us an academic lecture entitled “International Development on Consumer Protection Law and Regulation”. Yu Yin first introduced the main works international community had carried out in the field of consumer protection and the development of consumer protection law. And based on that, she explained the exploration of the current academic circles in the area of effective consumer relief mechanism. In the meanwhile, she focused on the Consumer Dispute Resolution (CDR), analyzed the similarities and differences between EU and China in solving consumer disputes and pointed out the challenges as well as the possible solutions to it.
