On August 11-13, 2023, the forum on Strengthening Legal Education and Legal Theory Research in the New Era was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, which was sponsored by the Steering Committee for Teaching Law in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, the Research Society for Legal Education of the China Law Society and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Prof. Ouyang Benqi, Dean of the School of Law of Southeast University, and Ms. Wang Weiwei, Secretary of Academic Affairs, were invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the forum, which was held in the morning of August 12 in the 1,000-person lecture hall of the Science and Technology Innovation Port of West China of Xi'an Jiaotong University, at which the second session of the National Outstanding Academic Teaching Personnel in Legal Education (10 people nationwide) were honored and awards were presented to the outstanding teaching staffs. Ms. Wang Weiwei, Secretary of Academic Affairs of our college, was awarded the title of National Excellent Law Teaching Staff.
In the afternoon of August 12, at the Shaanxi Hotel Conference Center, Associate Professor Ding Wei, Associate Dean of the Law School of Xi'an Jiaotong University, hosted a special forum on Sharing of Practical Experiences of Faculty Building and Teaching Management in the New Era of Legal Education at the 2023 Annual Conference of the China Law Society of Legal Education Research Association, and Prof. Han Dayuan, Executive Vice-President of the Law Society of Legal Education Research Association of China Law Society, delivered a speech as a guest. Prof. Han Dayuan delivered a speech as a guest speaker. As one of the speakers of this module, Ms. Wang Weiwei made a keynote speech on Sharing of Teaching Management Practices in Southeast University School of Law, sharing her 10 years' experience and insights in teaching affairs in the law school. Prof. Zhang Wenxian, member of the party group of China Law Society, director of the Academic Committee, and president of the Research Society for Legal Education of China Law Society, also visited the venue and listened to Ms. Wang Weiwei's speech.
It is reported that this forum held the award ceremony of National Outstanding Law Teaching Staff at the opening ceremony and set up a special forum for teaching staff in order to summarize the experience, commend the advanced, give full play to the positive demonstration role of excellent law teaching staff, and promote the law teaching work to continuously achieve new results. The award of this prize to Ms. Wang Weiwei of our college is not only a recognition of her personal work achievement, but also a full affirmation of our college's teaching work.
In the face of the new situation and new tasks of the reform and development of legal education in the new era, we hope that all the teachers and students of the college will follow the example of Ms. Wang Weiwei, excel in their ordinary work, practice the concept of building people on virtue and putting students in the first place, and always adhere to the college's WENRUIYUYUANAN concept. We will firmly establish the consciousness of serving teachers and students, and make concerted efforts to promote the construction of a new pattern of cultivating leading talents in law at Southeast University.