Editor's note
| Author | WANG Zhuhao |
| Pages | 1-5 |
FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA
VOL. 13 MARCH 2018 NO. 1
DOI 10.3868/s050-007-018-0001-6
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COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EVIDENCE LAW : EAST AND WEST
EDITOR’S NOTE
WANG Zhuhao *
The world of evidence law feels like a small one because of the International
Association of Evidence Science and its biennial International Conference on Evidence
Law and Forensic Science (“ICELFS”). Since 2007, the 1st ICELFS was held in Beijing,
China, six conferences have been convened, respectively in China, Australia and the
United States. Over a decade, ICELFS kept on making breakthroughs and has been
growing into a prime platform of communications for evidence law jurists and forensic
scientists in China and around the world. The 6th International Conference on Evidence
Law and Forensic Science (“ICELFS 2017”) has been held during August 1416, 2017 in
Baltimore, Maryland, the United States, co-hosted by the International Association of
Evidence Science, China University of Political Science and Law and the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner, State of Maryland, U.S., while sponsored by the “2011” Plan of
China Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization and by the “111” Plan of
China Evidence Science Innovation and Talent Base. More than 150 delegates from five
continents, including countries like the United States, China, United Kingdom,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Australia and Japan, attended the ICELFS 2017, with more
than 80 paper submissions and 14 panel discussions at a high inter-disciplinary and
intelligence level.
This conference is an organization committed to reform. Its members are not mere
academic theoreticians. Rather, they are engaged scholars who devote a significant
percentage of their energy to effect changing in the evidentiary rules. The keynote
speaker panel of the Day One: Professor Ronald J. Allen is John Henry Wigmore
Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the President of
International Association of Evidence Science who has been at the forefront of drafting
evidentiary reform proposal for Tanzania and played a significant role in China’s
evidence law development. Professor ZHANG Baosheng was Professor Ronald Allen’s
student at Northwestern back to the year of 2002 and the former Vice President of China
* () S.J.D. candidate, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Illinois, United States;
Associate Professor of Law, Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science, China University of Political
Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China. Contact: wangzhuhao@cupl.edu.cn
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