Webinar for artificial intelligence and the future rule of law was held successfully by the social sciences universities network

• Author: Jia Sihan
• Position: (???) B.S. in Computer Science and Technology, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China; Master's degree candidate, School of Law, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. Contact: jiash2020@ruc.edu.cn
• Pages: 171-173

FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA

VOL. 16 MARCH 2021 NO. 1

DOI 10.3868/s050-010-021-0009-8

ACADEMIC NEWS

WEBINAR FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE RULE OF LAW WAS

HELD SUCCESSFULLY BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITIES NETWORK

On November 18, 2020, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future Rule of Law

Webinar, which was one of the “AI+” serial webinars, was held successfully online by

the Social Sciences Universities Network (SSUN), with the assistance of Renmin Law

School and Renmin Law and Technology Institute of Renmin University of China

(RUC).

The SSUN was launched together by Renmin University of China (RUC) and Luiss

University in 2019, to provide a collaboration platform between universities of

humanities and social sciences in talent training, scientific research, academic innovation,

and policy/regulation formulation. In 2020, to successfully meet the opportunities and

challenges brought about by AI, RUC and Luiss University, together with other SSUN

member institutions, held a webinar series centered on AI and its relationship with big

data technology, the law, public governance, and the digital economy.

The webinar invited Prof. Ivar Hartmann from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law

School, Associate Prof. Guo Rui from RUC Law School, and Prof. Daria S. Boklan, Prof.

Fuad T. Aleskerov, and Dr. Olga Chetverikova from the National Research University

Higher School of Economics to deliver keynote speeches. Prof. Cheng Lei, Vice Dean of

Renmin Law School, also attended the webinar and delivered the welcome speech.

Associate Prof. Zhang Jiyu, Executive Director of the Law and Technology Institute of

RUC, moderated the webinar.

Vice Dean Cheng first expressed his thanks and greetings to all the speakers and the

audiences, particularly regarding their overcoming the difficulties of the COVID-19

pandemic to attend the webinar. He expressed his belief that the webinar would

contribute to solving the problems of AI and the law. Finally, Vice Dean Cheng

announced that he eagerly anticipated having face-to-face communication with and

cooperation between all the researchers once the COVID-19 pandemic was over and

wished the webinar great success.

The topic of Prof. Hartmann’s presentation was the Three Elements of the Future Role

of AI in the Law. First, he introduced the curriculum setting and reform of FGV Law

School, aiming to improve the core competencies of students. In this way, Prof. Hartmann

introduced “Capacity Building” as the first element. Thereafter, he demonstrated the

training results of the model, using the new structured and unstructured variables from