On the afternoon of April 20, 2019,Chinese famouscriminal law scholarsProfessor Chu Huaizhi and Professor Liang Genlinof Peking University Law Schoolwere invited to the Southeast University Law School to have academic discussion on the topic of “How to Increase Problem Awareness on Criminal Law Study” with Professor Liu Yanhong of our law school. This lecture was hosted by Professor Ouyang Benqi. Master students and undergraduatesof our law schoolattended the lecture.

At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Chu Huaizhi offered a little expectation to the students. He hoped that the students would increase their problemawareness. Professor Chu pointed out that writing papers and doing research should be innovative. He said that wherever innovation came from, it was from the awareness of the problem. Later, Professor Chu Huaizhi combined with the legislative evolution of the “Defense” provisions of the Criminal Law to raise the question of whether the defense would be excessive and whether legitimate defense required limits. Finally, Professor Chu Huaizhi introduced the debates on the three-level crime theory and the four-part crime constitution in the criminal law circles. He pointed out that the three-level crime theory was indispensable for the improvement of criminal law knowledge and scientific improvement. But whether the four-part crime constitution should be completely abandoned was worth pondering.

Later, Professor Liang Genlin elaborated on the criminal policy thoughts of Professor Chu Huaizhi's and pointed out that Professor Chu had gave us a lot of inspiration, established a sense of problem and set good example for usThen, Professor Liang Genlin’s elaborated on how criminal law research increased the awareness of problemsFour aspects of problem-oriented, practical-oriented problem awareness, China-oriented problem awareness and future-oriented.

Finally, Professor Liu Yanhong combined with her own theoretical research to explain how to solve the problem of conviction of statutory criminals from the root cause, and pointed out that the provisions of many statutory offenders did not have the words “violation of national regulations”, but this did not mean legal.In addition, Professor Liu Yanhong also pointed out that the study of criminal law in China had always used the practice of Chinese rule of law to verify the German-Japanese theory. She explained that the theory of self-owned was too lacking, and the research on the discourse system based on the actual law of Chinese law should be strengthened.

It was great event that the three generations of jurists gathered to discuss problem awarenessin academic research.