Academics from one of China’s top five law universities, the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, will present to Adelaide’s law schools tomorrow (18 June).

They will discuss issues relating to international economic, criminal and environmental law at the International Law Workshop at Flinders University Victoria Square.

As well as trade and investment topics, the workshop will also focus on international and cross-border criminal law, criminology, the arms trade and global environmental challenges will be discussed at a Flinders University workshop tomorrow.

Entitled International Justice: at the cutting edge, the keynote speakers from CUPL are:

• Associate Professor Lijiang Zhu, editor of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Oxford University Press)
• Professor Juqian Li, an expert in international, economic law and space law who has taught Chinese astronauts at the China Astronaut Centre
• Professor Hongyan Guo, with expertise in law of the sea and international law
• Professor Li Zhang, who researches international environmental law.

Dr Rebecca LaForgia, from the University of Adelaide Law School, will speak on the recent formation of the $50 billion Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank as a “new voice of China’s multilateral politics”.

Speakers from Flinders University include Fulbright Flinders University, the Distinguished Chair in American Political Science Professor Thad Kousser, Professor Andrew Goldsmith (on international policing), Associate Professor Marinella Marmo (human trafficking in Australia) and Associate Professor Hossein Esmaeili (pollution from offshore oil rigs under international law).

See the full program here.

The International Law Workshop will be held at Flinders University, Victoria Square, Adelaide (corner of Flinders St and 182 Victoria Square, Room 10.2) from 8.30am-5.30pm, on 18 June.