A six-member Delegation of CASS Institute of Law, headed by Professor Xie Zengyi, Deputy Director of the Institute, visited Hungary and Germany to carry out academic exchanges on October 12-18, 2025. Other members of the delegation included Professor Zhang Sheng, Professor Xie Hongfei, Associate Professor Deng Li, Associate Professor Yu Jianan, and Associate Professor Xiao Xin.

 

On the morning of 13 October, the delegation visited Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and had in-depth exchanges with Professor Róbert Szuchy, Vice President of the University, and Professor Zoltán J. Tóth, Dean of the Law School of the University, on the legislative progress and the current academic research hotspots in the fields of labor law and civil law in China and Hungary, and discussed the future cooperation between the two institutions.

 

 

On the afternoon of the same day, the delegation visited the Institute of Law of the Social Science Center of Eötvös Loránd University (the former Institute of Law of Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and exchanged views with Professor Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, director of the Institute, and some Hungarian scholars and experts on the current hot issues of civil law and legal history, and reached broad consensus on the fields and ways of future cooperation.

On October 15, the delegation visited the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPILHLT) and attended the First German-Chinese Seminar on Comparative Legal History and Legal Theory: Private Law, organized by MPILHLT. The seminar was divided into four sessions. In the first session, Professor Thomas Duve, Director of MPILHLT, and Professor Zhang Sheng, head of the Department of Legal History of CASS Institute of Law, each gave a keynote speech on “European Legal Traditions in a Global Perspective” and “Legal Traditions from a Global Legal History Perspective: Practical Reasoning in China’s Ancient Normatism”, respectively. In the following three sessions, the participants discussed issues related to “reflections on Chinese legal history of private law”, “labour law history in a global perspective”, and “important China-related projects currently carried out by MPILHLT”.

On 17 October, the delegation visited Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and attended the Third Chinese-European Law Symposium: Latest Developments in Private Law in China and Germany, sponsored by the Institute. The seminar was divided into five sessions, in which participants discussed a range of frontier issues in the fields of civil and commercial law, company law, and family law.