Monday, 10 September 2012 17:50

The 4th International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science

“The Contribution of Evidence Science to the Rule of Law

and the Progression of Civilization”

Beijing (China) July 20-21, 2013

China University of Political Science and Law (“CUPL”)

Since 2007, the International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science (“International Conference”) has been held three times in Beijing. The first three International Conference were sponsored by the Key Laboratory of Evidence Science of the Ministry of Education (China University of Political Science and Law), while the International Association of Evidence and Science (“IAES”) was established during the third International Conference. Professor Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern Univesity, USA, was elected as the president of IAES. We now announce that the forth Intenational Conference will be held on July 20 and 21, 2013 in Beijing. It will be sponsored by the Center of Cooperative Innovation for Judicial Civilization (China University of Political Science and Law, Jilin University, Wuhan University) and IAES, hosted by the Key Laboratory of Evidence Science of the Ministry of Education (China University of Political Science and Law).

Scientific Committee of the conference

President

Professor Ronald J. Allen, Northwestern Univesity, USA

Members

Professor Andrew Leith Coutts Ligertwood, University of Adelaide, Australia

Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK

Professor Christophe Champod, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor Michele Taruffo, University of Pavia, Italy

Professor Baosheng (“Bensen”) Zhang, China University of Political Science and Law

General information

1. Venue: Beijing.

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2. Subject: The Contribution of Evidence Science to the Rule of Law and the Progression of Civilization

    Four Topics:

    1) How could evidence law promote Judicial Civilization;

    2) Evidence law and social harmonization;

    3) Forensic science and justice;

    4) Forensic science and factfinding;

One Panel: Evidence Rules of the People’s Court in Litigation. This panel will focus on discussing the interim achievements of Project Evidence Rules in Litigation, a major National Social Science Fund Project in China, led by Vice Chief Justice of China – Justice Jun Zhang (also an adjunct professor at China University of Political Science and Law)

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3. Languages: English and Chinese. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided during the entire conference for both Chinese into English and English into Chinese.

4. Webpage:

    E-mail address: icelfs2013@cupl.edu.cn

5. Conference papers/presentations:

    Conference papers/presentations shall be prepared in Chinese or English.

Detailed information

1. Preliminary agenda

1) Morning of July 20, 2013

    Opening ceremony and conference report.

2) Afternoon of July 20, 2013

    Topic 1: Evidence Law and Judicial Civilization;

    Topic 3: Forensic science and Justice.

3) Morning of July 21, 2013

    Topic 1 continues: Evidence Law and Judicial Civilization;

    Topic 3 continues: Forensic science and Justice.

         Panel: Evidence Rules of the People’s Court in Litigation

4) Afternoon of July 21, 2013

    Topic 2: Evidence law and social harmonization;

    Topic 4: Forensic science and factfinding.

5) 4:00 p.m. of July 21, 2013

    Close Ceremony.

During the conference, the 2nd Plenary Session of the 1st Council of IAES will be held.

2. Call for topic speakers and general speakers:

3. Deadlines

4. Registration fee

    No registration fee will be charged.

5. Paper requirement

    Paper written in Chinese shall have a 12,000-word limit, and a 200-word abstract in English. Standards of notes and citations please see the Exhibit.

    [Exhibit: Standards of Notes and Citations for Academic Papers]

6. Further information

    Details on the conference can be found at , or please contact icelfs2013@cupl.edu.cn.