On October 20-21, 2017, the fifteenth Luojia Forum on Environmental Law, i.e., the “International Workshop on Environmental Law and Economics: How to Govern the Commons?" was held at RIEL WHU.

The international workshop was organized by RIEL, the key research base of China’s ministry of education. More than 20 Chinese and foreign experts and scholars from abroad well-known colleges and universities such as Maastricht university in the Netherlands, Erasmus university, Australia university of New England, Potsdam university in Germany and Duke Kunshan university, Renmin university of China, China university of political science and law, China ocean university, sun yat-sen university, Suzhou university, Zhejiang university of finance and economics, Hubei economy academy, Wuhan university, and organizations such as WWF attended the workshop, RIEL has more than 40 doctoral and master students took part in.

On the morning of October 20, the meeting held a brief opening ceremony. Opening ceremony was presided over by RIEL Associate Prof. Liu Jing, dean of Wuhan university law school Prof. Feng Guo, deputy director of RIEL Prof. Ke Jian, Prof. Michael Faure from Maastricht university and Erasmus university and RIEL "one thousand talents" program Prof. Ben Boer attended the opening ceremony and has published a speech. After the opening ceremony, the participants took a photo.

From the morning of October 20 to the noon of 21, this workshop was divided into six units. The theme of the first unit is "Regulation, Welfare and Change of Environmental Law". The topic of the second unit is the "Weakness of the Environmental Enforcement Mechanism Based on Deterrence". The topic of the third unit is "Setting Environmental Standards". The theme of the fourth unit is "From Government to Governance". On the morning of October 21, the general assembly entered the fifth unit, which focused on the theme of "Private Law: Property Rights". The theme of the sixth unit is "Private Law Approach: Tort Law and Contract Law".

At noon on October 21, the workshop moved to the closing ceremony. This meeting has fully demonstrated the internationalization degree of RIEL.

The workshop strictly adheres to the principle of "attending the meeting as an author", selecting from the summary of the paper submitted in advance, it is determined that the article and author will be chosen by its quality, with China and foreign representatives accounting for half of participants separately. The working language of the workshop is English, and the keynote speech and communication of the participants in the meeting are also conducted in English, which realized the full exchange of scholars from China and abroad. At the same time, the academic platform is set up in the form of international conference, which also provides RIEL with the opportunity to learn from internationally renowned scholars directly. By attending this meeting, the graduate students expanded their horizons and enhanced their confidence.