Professor Mo Jihong Gives Lecture at “Shaoshan Forum of Famous Scholars” in Xiangtan University

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Professor Mo Jihong, the director of CASS Institute of International Law, a life-time honorary president of the International Association of Constitutional Law and the executie vice chairman of the Constitutional Law Research Committee of China Law Society, gave a lecture entitled “Several Issues Concerning the Socialist Constitutional Theory with Chinese Characteristics” at “Shaoshan Forum of Famous Scholars” at the invitation of Xiangtan University on April 27, 2019. The lecture was presided over by Professor Yin Huarong, Head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of the Law School of Xiangtan University. Professor Ou Aimin, Vice Dean of the Law School, Professor Zhang Yiqing, Head of the Department of Jurisprudence of the Law School, and Professor Cai Gaoqiang, Head of the International Law Department of the Law School, served as commentators at the lecture. The lecture was attended by over 120 scholars, practical legal workers and law school students.

In the lecture, Professor Mo took the relationships between disciplines, academic research and the discourse system as the entry point to explain the important influence of theoretical discourse right on the academic validity, and expounded the theoretical sources, basis, composition, characteristics, connotation, tasks and historical missions of the constitutional theory with Chinese characteristics. After the lecture, the commentators carried out in-depth discussions with Professor Mo on the explanatory power of the thesis, the response to practical problems and other issues relating to the topic of the lecture and Professor Mo answered the questions raised by the audience.