蔡守秋、李启家教授到宁波大学讲学

Prof. Cai Shouqiu and Prof. Li Qijia gave lectures in Ningbo University

March 22, 2017, Wuhan University RIEL Prof. Cai Shouqiu and Prof. Li Qijia were invited to visit Ningbo University, and give academic lectures. Professor Cai Xianfeng, vice president of law school, presided over the lecture, more than 100 teachers and students participated.

The lecture is divided into two phases. In the first phase of the lecture, Prof. Li Qijia focused on the theme of "the contemporaneity of environmental law ". He believes that the contemporaneity of environmental law mainly characterized by democracy, openness. At present, the basic contradiction in the field of environmental protection in China is the contradiction between environmental protection demand and environmental protection ability, which is based on the evolution of Chinese history and "advancing with the times". Under the guidance of basic ideas and basic principles, we should think about new problems, open understanding, and allow "trial and error" in the process, based on new ideas, value judgments. "Community theory" includes co-ownership, sharing, co-governance. The environmental community is in fact a common understanding formed through the practice of environmental protection, the practice of environmental rule of law and related theoretical research. Any community is actually a community of interests; environmental protection needs to form a community of interest awareness to identify the interests and to classify the interests so that to meet the diverse needs and form various ways to meet those needs,

The second phase was lectured by Prof. Cai Shouqiu whose theme was "prosecution organs and environmental public interest litigation". He first explored the difference between public interest and public products, and gave rise to deep thinking about public interest and public interest litigation. He pointed out that in law, public products or public goods is accompanied by a basic category of private property existence. Moreover, the character of environment as a public product is increasingly recognized by academics while environmental litigation, is the litigation caused by the behaviors which injure environmental public interest, and also is an important measure of China to speed up the construction of ecological civilization. China's environmental public interest litigation is developing on the direction of environmental justice specialization which has made significant progress in recent years. The environmental administrative public interest litigation brought by the procuratorial organ not only embodies the strong determination of the Party Central Committee to promote administration according to law, strict law enforcement, safeguard the national and social public interests, but also reflects the characteristics of the basic system of China, especially the public interest litigation system. Practice has proved that the prosecution organs to bring environmental public interest litigation is conducive to a more comprehensive exercise of the procuratorial supervision, optimize the allocation of judicial authority, and better play the role of prosecution legal supervision functions.

Subsequently, the students raised questions to Prof. Cai Shouqiu and Prof. Li Qijia about the issues they concerned, they commented and stated their own ideas.

Finally, this lecture ended in a warm applause.