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 Chinese Law Society, and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Prof. Ouyang Benqi, Dean of the Law School of Southeast University, was invited to participate in the forum.
In the evening of August 11th, at the conference center of Shaanxi Hotel, Prof. Ouyang Benqi, as the executive director of the Law Education Research Association of China Law Society, participated in the meeting of the Executive Council of the Law Education Research Association of China Law Society, listened to the report of the Research Association and participated in the voting resolution.
On the morning of August 12, Prof. Ouyang Benqi attended the opening ceremony of the forum in the 1,000-member lecture hall of Western China Science and Technology Innovation Port of Xi'an Jiaotong University. Attending the opening ceremony were Lu Jianjun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Han Deyang, President of the Higher People's Court of Shaanxi Province, Xu Xianming, Chairman of the Steering Committee for Teaching Law in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, and Zhang Wenxian, Member of the Party Group of the China Law Society, Director of the Academic Committee, and Chairman of the Research Society for Law Education of the China Law Society, and other well-known leaders and scholars.
On the morning of August 13th, at the conference center of Shaanxi Hotel, Wang Yong, former vice president and professor of the People's Public Security University of China, and Wang Sifeng, dean and professor of the Law School of Northwestern University, presided over the sixth sub-forum, Construction of Curriculum Civics and Politics in Legal Education, and Prof. Ouyang Benqi, as one of the speakers of the unit, presented the topic of Basic Guidelines for Legal Education in the New Era. Professor Ouyang Benqi, as one of the speakers of this module, took Basic Guidelines and Optimization Path of Legal Education in the New Era as the title of his speech, and summarized the basic guidelines of legal education in the new era based on the full study of Opinions on Strengthening Legal Education and Legal Theory and Research in the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping's opinions on the cultivation of legal education and rule of law talents, as well as a series of important decisions, plans, and documents issued by the CPC Central Committee centered on Comrade Xi Jinping. The basic guidelines of legal education in the new era will be summarized, and the optimization path will be sought for the existing problems of legal education. Professor Ou Aimin, Dean of Law School of Xiangtan University, Xu Li, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Emergency Management University and Director of the International Cooperation Department, spoke to the speeches of this module and highly affirmed the cutting-edge significance of this module's seminar in promoting legal education in the new era.
This forum has seven sub-forums and eight special forums, which comprehensively and profoundly discuss how to strengthen the legal education and legal theory research in the new era, and has attracted wide attention. The successful convening of this forum helped to promote the development of legal education and legal research in the new era, and further enhanced the influence of legal education of Southeast University School of Law in the country.