DMU delegation led by Professor Han Lixin attends the 12th East Asia Maritime Law

Forum

On November 2, the DMU delegation led by Professor Han Lixin, Deputy Dean of the Law School of DMU, attended the 12th East Asia Maritime Law Forum hosted by Korea University (Republic of Korea). The 12th Forum covered three topics: “The recent development of maritime law”, “Maritime insolvency Law” and “Maritime competition law”. As the co-organizer of the forum, DMU is responsible for inviting and recommending Chinese speakers on various topics.

Professor Han Lixin delivered a keynote speech at the opening session. In her speech, she summarized all the topics which have been touched in the previous forums since it was first held in 2008, and put forward specific suggestions on the topics that the forum should focus on in the next few years,the publication of outstanding achievements of the forum, the translation of the latest maritime legislation between China, Japan and the ROK, and the support for young scholars and doctoral students to participate in the forum. Professor Hu Zhengliang of the Law School of Shanghai Maritime University presented on "The Development of Maritime Law in China in 2018-2019". The latest judicial interpretation promulgated by the Supreme People’s Court in 2018, the maritime judicial statistics and cases revealed in the White Paper on Maritime Adjudication in China (2015-2017), the progress in the revision of Chinese Maritime Code and the latest information regarding the establishment of China's maritime courts were introduced.

Mr. Zhang Zhiyong, Partner of Shanghai Office of Deheng Law Firm, expounded his views on "The Recent Development and Discussion Related to Individual and Cross-border Bankruptcy Issues" in connection with laws and regulations in the session of "Maritime Insolvency Law". Professor Zhu Zuoxian of DMU Law School spoke in the session of "Maritime Competition Law" under the title "The Shipping Competition Practice in China: Policy, Regulation and Cases". Based on the international conventions to which China is a party, domestic legislation and legal principles of anti-monopoly laws , he elaborated on more than ten typical maritime competition and anti-monopoly cases in China so far, and proposed that the maritime competition laws in various countries should gradually move towards international unification like the maritime law.

Associate Professor Zhang Jinlei of the Law School was invited to share her reflections on all the forums she had participated in. Upon the request of the Forum coordinator, Ms. Yu Shihui, Dean Assistant of the Law School, made a concluding speech at the closing ceremony of the Forum. In addition, Professor Chang Yen-Chiang of DMU Law School presented a paper entitled "China's ‘One Belt and One Road Initiative’ and its Impact on Japanese Shipping law" to the Forum. Mr. Yi Yang, Mr. Li Lei, Mr. Lu Da and Miss Huang Yue, the PhD candidates of DMU Law School,also presented their papers to the Forum and had full exchanges with the participants.

The East Asia Maritime Law Forum is an international symposium on maritime law co-organized by Waseda University (Japan), Dalian Maritime University (P.R. China) and Korea University (Republic of Korea), which has been successfully held in Japan, China and Korea for 12 sessions since 2008, and has become an important platform for regular academic exchanges among the maritime law circles, judicial practice and shipping practitioners in East Asia. It has played an important role in promoting the theoretical research of maritime law and ocean law in Japan, China and Korea, promoting the development of maritime legislation and judicial practice, and promoting the integration and unification of maritime law in East Asia.

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