Professor Wenxian Zhang, President of the Higher People's Court of Jilin Province and Director of the National Supervision Committee for Legal Education, was appointed Adjunct Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University on 25 October.
The appointment was announced by Professor Nanning Zheng, President of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, before an audience of dozens of faculties and students at the School of Law. The ceremony was hosted by Professor Wenhua Shan, Dean of Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Law.
After the appointment, Professor Wenxian Zhang delivered his inaugural lecture on the topic of "Judicial Philosophy and Judicial Reform in the Lawsuit Society". In the lecture, Professor Zhang asserted that China has already entered the stage of a "lawsuit society", highlighted the challenges posed by this development to China's judicial bodies and made several proposals for the judicial reform in order to cope with the challenges.
(English Editor: Jinyuan SU)