On May 22^nd, the 13^th Beijing Moot Court Competition for College Students, sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and organized by the China University of Political Science and Law, was successfully concluded.

A total of 48 college teams from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region participated in the competition, including Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, China University of Political Science and Law, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Tianjin University, Hebei University of Technology, and so on. In the end, six college teams won the first prize in groups, including the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the China University of Political Science and Law, etc. For USTB, Prof. XU Mingxun from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences won the “Outstanding Instructor Award”; Mr. ZHANG Tingxin won the second prize of “Outstanding Individual Award”, and Ms. XU Jiayu won the “Excellent Individual Award”. They created the best result in the history for USTB in the Beijing Mock Trial Competition.

Group Photo

Team USTB was led by Prof. DONG Mei, Deputy Head of the Department of Law at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. XU Mingxun and Ms. LIN Lin served as instructors, and the team members including Mr. ZHANG Tingxin, Ms. HUANG Shuning, Ms. XU Jiayu, Ms. LIU Ruiya, Mr. WU Xiaohang, and Ms. WU Jianqi.

The team members participating in this competition are all excellent participants selected from the 3^rd Mock Trial Competition of USTB. The Mock Trial Intramural Competition is a liberal art discipline competition. Since it started in August 2021, more than 150 students from various schools of USTB have signed up to participate in the competition, forming 40 teams of “professional groups” and “non-professional groups”. Through a series of fierce competitions, six team members stood out and formed a school team to participate in the Beijing Mock Trial Competition.

The Mock Trial Competition

Advancing law-based governance is an essential requirement and important guarantee for socialism with Chinese characteristics as well as a profound revolution in China’s governance. Beijing Mock Trial Competition is a public welfare innovative practice activity for college students. Therefore, actively participating in this competition is a positive response to comprehensively advancing law-based governance, enhancing the concept of rule of law, and promoting the construction of a society ruled by law.

USTB has successfully held the Mock Trial Competition three times. On the one hand, this competition is an important way for law students to learn professional knowledge as well as a practical way towards professional positions. On the other hand, by virtue of competitions, those students not majoring in law can become familiar with the law, know the trial process, get close to the law, and improve their quality of rule of law. In order to promote learning and teaching through competitions, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences has built a publicity platform that combines the publicity and education of rule of law with the practice of rule of law, which has continuously set off a tide of legal knowledge popularization throughout the entire university.

Draft: LI Meng

Revision: CHENG Mingyuan