On November 12, 2022, the inaugural meeting and first general meeting of the Beijing Society for Comparative Law were successfully held at the Beijing Shounong Xiangshan Conference Center. The conference was conducted in a combination of online and offline mode. Mr. Dong Xiaohua, a senior partner of Gao Peng Law Firm, was invited to attend the meeting and was elected as the executive director of the first board of directors.

Conference site

The predecessor of the Beijing Comparative Law Research Association was the Comparative Law Research Association of the Beijing Law Society, which was originally an internal institution of the Beijing Law Society. Based on the urgent task of building foreign-related rule of law under the new historical situation and the policy of the Beijing Law Society of "advocating and supporting qualified research associations that have not been registered with the civil affairs department to register associations", after the original research society decided to start the restructuring, various preparations, the Beijing Municipal Law Society approved it, and the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau approved it, the research society was officially transformed into an independent legal person approved and registered by the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau, and named "Beijing Comparative Law Research Association".

Group photo of the meeting

The conference also elected the first president, executive vice president, vice president, secretary general and chairman of the board of supervisors of the research society.

Mr. Dong Xiaohua holds a Master of Laws degree from Peking University, a Juris Doctor from Beijing Normal University, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Management from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and was also a senior prosecutor in the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate before his transformation to a lawyer.

Regarding the election, Mr. Dong said: Comparative law is a necessary means to obtain the common law or universal law of human society, and an important indicator for judging the legal progress and legal civilization of human society. The Comparative Law and Comparative Law Research Association is also an important intellectual support force for the construction of foreign-related rule of law, which is of great significance for promoting the construction of China's rule of law society. In the past 20 years of development, Gao Peng Law Firm has deeply penetrated into the field of foreign-related rule of law services and made remarkable achievements. This election, as a member of the research society, in line with the original intention of "living up to the trust and pursuing excellence" and the cultural concept of "people are doing good", in the future work, we will closely unite the comparative law practitioners in the capital, jointly promote the in-depth development of comparative law research in the capital through various academic research and exchange activities, and strive to give play to the role of comparative law in promoting the construction of the rule of law in the capital.

(This article is translated by software translator for reference only.)