Judicial Reforms and Criminal Procedure in China
15–16 December 2017
Chair of Chinese Legal Culture
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Cologne
Friday, 15 December 2017
Venue: Neuer Senatssaal, University Main Building
10:30–11:00: Welcome
Session 1: Introduction to Recent Reforms of Courts and Criminal Procedure
11:00–12:00: HOU Meng (Peking University)
The Supreme People’s Court as Initiator of Judicial Reforms
13:00–14:00: Susan Finder (School of Transnational Law of Peking University, Shenzhen)
The Supreme People’s Court’s Role in Shaping Criminal Procedure
14:00–15:00: FU Yulin (Peking University)
The Relationship between Higher and Lower Courts in the Process of Implementing Judicial Reforms
Session 2: Protection of Procedural Rights in Criminal Trials
15:30–16:15: HE Xin (City University of Hong Kong)
Problems and Prospects of Criminal Reconciliation
16:15–17:00: Eva Pils (King’s College London)
China’s Dual State and the Elimination of Criminal Procedure Rights
17:00–17:45: YUE Liling (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing)
Summary Trial and Fair Trial Rights Protection
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Venue: Room 3.07, Institute of East Asian Studies
Session 3: Criminal Justice Reforms under Socialist Rule of Law
10:00–10:45: YU Xiaohong (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Limits of Judicial Reform in China
10:45–11:30: Michelle MIAO (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Criminal Justice System as an Enterprise
11:30–12:15: LI Ling (University of Vienna)
Judicial Reforms and Decision-making in China’s Courts
Session 4: Obstacles to the Establishment of ‘Hearing-Centred’ Trials
13:30–14:15: GUO Zhiyuan (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing)
Live Witnesses in Chinese Courts
14:15–15:00: XU Shenjian (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing)
Cross Examination in Chinese Criminal Trials
Commentators
Mimi ZOU (Oxford University)
PENG Xinyun (University Basel)
LIN Jing (MPI, Freiburg)