Ms. Teresa Cheng, SC, the former Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, gives an academic lecture at CASS Institute of Law

Source: iolawen.cssn.cn 2022.10.02  

 

 

Ms. Teresa Cheng, SC, the former Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, visited CASS Institute of Law and gave a lecture on "Ways and Means to Assess the Rule of Law" at the institute on the morning of September 27, 2022. In the lecture, Ms. Cheng introduced Hong Kong's Vision 2030 for Rule of Law Task Force Report, reviewed the exploration and establishment of the index system for the assessment of the rule of law in Hong Kong, and shared the experience of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in rule of law assessment. After the lecture, Professor Zhang Sheng, Professor Zhi Zhenfeng and Professor Lu Yanbin of CASS Institute of Law made comments on the lecture and expressed their agreement with the relevant views put forward by Ms. Cheng on the assessment of the rule of law. The lecture was presided over by Professor Tian He, director of the CASS Center for Studies of National Rule of Law Index. Professor Mo Jihong, director of CASS Institute of Law, made concluding remarks at the lecture. Before the lecture, a meeting was held between Ms. Cheng and the leaders of the two CASSS institutes, including Professor Mo Jihong and Professor Chen Guoping, Secretary of the Joint Party Committee of CASS Institute of Law and CASS Institute of International Law. At the meeting, both the hosts and the guest expressed the wish to jointly promote the legal exchanges and cooperation between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong in the future.