Recently, the 14th Beijing University Student Moot Court Competition was grandly held at the Changping Campus of China University of Political Science and Law. Lawyer Dong Xiaohua, Senior Partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, was invited by the organizing committee to attend and serve as the judge for two consecutive rounds of the competition.

The first lawyer from the right is Dong Xiaohua

The Beijing University Student Moot Court Competition is a large-scale legal knowledge and skills competition organized by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education and undertaken by the China University of Political Science and Law. It has been held for fourteen times and follows the concept of "government sponsored, expert led, student led, and social participation". It has attracted elite students from many well-known universities in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region to participate. Representatives from 48 universities including China University of Political Science and Law, Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics, and Tianjin University participated in this competition. The judge lineup consists of senior frontline judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and university professors.

This competition mainly focuses on criminal cases, and the selected cases are all real cases adapted by professionals, which are highly challenging and practical. In the opening matches and two rounds of regular matches, 48 representative teams brought 66 exciting high-level matches. In the two rounds of competition held on May 13 and 20, 2023, Lawyer Dong Xiaohua made accurate comments and professional and comprehensive guidance on the fact finding, evidence raising and cross examination, court questioning, court debate, application of law, legal logic reasoning, legal document writing, and the art of legal language of all teams.

The holding of simulated court competition activities is of great benefit to the enhancement of young students' learning ability, the cultivation of a serious attitude towards work, the training of teamwork spirit, and the accumulation of legal professional literacy. Especially in such a large-scale and high-level competition, the effect is more obvious and the impact is more profound.

Lawyer Dong Xiaohua is a doctoral student in criminal law. Over the course of more than 20 years of criminal law practice, he has developed a profound legal professional literacy, accumulated rich practical experience, and achieved fruitful work results. As a senior partner of our institution, she has served as a judge and lecturer for similar events multiple times over the years. This not only provides strong support for the growth of young students, but also showcases the professional demeanor of Gaopeng Lawyers and reflects her social responsibility. In the future, Gaopeng Law Firm and Gaopeng Lawyers will continue to make unremitting efforts and contribute to the path of providing social public welfare services, promoting the prosperity of legal education, and promoting the progress of the rule of law in society.