On the night of November 16，2016，the Lecture was held successfully in Hall A301 at MUST. The lecture was hold by Faculty of Law， Macau University of Science and Technology , and sponsored by the Macau Foundation. The lecture was honored to invite Professor Zhou Dawei. Prof. Zhou’s lecture was on the topic of “Why is the United States --the development of American Law in 20th Century”.
Main speaker: Mr. Zhou Dawei, the Chinese American scholar, who graduated from Department of Political Science and Law of Southwest University, Law School of Renmin University of China and Law School of UIUC. He worked for the School of Law of Columbia University, USA and was a visiting scholar of Stanford University Development Research Center. Now, he is the distinguished researcher of Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, distinguished professor of School of Law, Beijing Institute of Technology, columnist of "China Newsweek" and "Legal Daily", documentary independent producer and member of China Society of Science and Technology Committee. In 1991, he was one of drafters of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Technology Contracts and won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award. In late 1980s, he became a professor of Law School of Renmin University of China. He published “Details of Rule-of-Law”, “Past Events in Beijing”, “The History of American Law in the Twentieth Century”, “Introduction to Technology Contract Law”, “Studies on the Labor Law Problems of the Scientific Personnel in the Mainland China”, etc. as well as over 100 academic papers.
Mr. Zhou Dawei's lecture noted that if we want to understand American community, we must really understand the core part of American Society - the rule of law of the United States and the rule of law development history in the United States. In this lecture, Mr. Zhou Dawei, through the legal culture comparison analysis between China and America, commented on the work "the history of American Law in twentieth Century" of Freedman, an international famous American scholar in contemporary world, pointed out this is a classic work that generally discussed American law evolution history in the twentieth century. Between 1900 and 2000, great and dramatic changes took place in the United States, which occurred in the areas of economic, social, cultural and political life, and reflected in the American legal system. On the basis of Freedman's insight, a legal system is the reflection of it is implanted society. If 21st Century was the Chinese century, it is not only refers to the Chinese mainland, it also includes these regions that beyond Chinese territory but use Chinese or have Chinese culture, it will not be a Confucianism China, but a China with scientific progress, trade development and market opening. Such a China will have no choice to learn from the United States experience, at least there is no suspense on a key point - it must be a rule of law society.
Mr. Zhou Dawei's profound knowledge, wise opinion, vivid language, made the whole lecture unusually brilliant, atmosphere lively, and much appreciated by everyone. Assistant Professor Lin Wei-Chung from faculty of law presided over the lecture, the students of FL and other faculties and some teachers listened to the speech with great interest, and had a heated discussion and exchange on the topic of the lecture in the interactive session.
Picture of Mr. Zhou Dawei with students and teachers
Picture of the event