Chinese, Romanian experts on first legal academic exchange

The first Chinese-Romanian mutual exchange of legal academic expertise started on Monday, in the Law School of the University of Bucharest, during a two-day international conference entitled "Law in a Transformed Society".

Initiated by the Confucius Institute in Bucharest and organized by China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and the Law School of the University of Bucharest, it gathers academics from these two institutions which have been cooperating for years.

Magdalena Iordache Platis, Pro-Rector of the University of Bucharest, appreciated the efforts made by the Chinese professors to come to Bucharest.

She said that "we are all interested in cooperation because the impact of globalization is a fact for all of us, irrespective of the field of activity, we are living in a globalized society."

Zeng Jixin, chief counsellor with the Chinese Embassy in Bucharest, saw this first conference on law as "a good opportunity to exchange views, a very good beginning, of special significance."

Chinese Professor Jiao Hongchang thinks there is need for cooperation in this globalized world and hopes "this is only the beginning for future cooperation and exchanges of projects and students between our schools."

Xue Xiaojian, the co-director of the Confucius Institute in Bucharest, said: "This is the beginning. Romania and China have a lot in common during the last two centuries, many similarities in law fields."

According to her, the second aim of the Confucius Institute, apart from teaching Chinese language, is to organize cultural events on topics of interest for various milieux. Over the last two years, the Confucius Institute has organized philosophy conferences with scholars from China, as well as other conferences on oriental languages.

The papers presented by the Chinese experts enriched the knowledge of their Romanian counterparts with new details, which include "The Evolution of Presidential Institution in China", "The Transformation of Policy: Improvement of the Chinese Constitutional Review Mechanism Considered", "On the Democracy of China's Administrative Legislative System and Procedure", etc..

In their turn, the Chinese experts learned about specific features and challenges of the Romanian law system from papers on "The Advance of Meritocracy in the Evolution of the Romanian Society", "Cabinet Appointing Procedures in Central and South East European Democracies", or "The Reform of the Romanian Electoral System and Its Influence over Political Representation". Endit