CWU Teachers Attend 2nd Forum on Law of Succession

On November 21, the second forum on Law of Succession was held at China Hall of Science and Technology. Li Mingshun, Chairperson of the China Women's University (CWU) Council, and CWU professor Lin Jianjun attended the forum and presided over the second and third sessions respectively.

Focused on "Notarization and Inheritance", the event was co-sponsored by the Institute of Marriage and Family Law (IMFL) and Beijing Notary Association. It was co-organized by the School of Juris Master (SJM), the Institute of Civil Law of School of Civil, Commercial, and Economic Law, and the Civil Law Innovation Team of China University of Political Science and Law (CUPSL).

Ding Lu, director of China Notary Association; Xia Yinlan, Director of the IMFL; and SJM President Fei Anling delivered the opening speeches. Lu Mingying, CWU graduate and deputy director of Beijing Huaxia Notary Public Office also delivered a speech at the conference.

In recent years, with the rapid developments of Chinese society and economy, people are becoming richer and richer. At the same time, the problems of property inheritance have been increasingly highlighted. Property inheritance is a complex legal relationship involving not only family relationships, including the inheritance of shareholder's rights, contract rights, and registered trademarks, but also the changes of relationships between multiple socioeconomic subjects.

Inheritance notaries can confirm the rights of inheritance to some degree, and improve the accuracy and credibility of changes in property rights. Strengthening the practical research into inheritance notary theory is new requirement in reflection of the new period of time. Such actions support the effective and sustainable development of notary work, and address a major social problem worthy of theoretical concerns, said officials.

The organizers received some 54 academic papers for the event. Notaries from Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other Provinces; experts and scholars from CUPSL, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CWU and other higher institutes; judges and the real estate registration officials from Beijing gathered together at the conference. This heavyweight dialogue of the theoretical and practical circles provided the participants with a worthy intellectual feast.

During the conference, experts, judges and officials focused on the "Notarial Business of Inheritance", discussed and reviewed some of the problems of the present Law of Succession. Based on the communication, participants deepened their understandings of particular legal issues. Their opinions and suggestions in solving the main hot issues also laid a solid theoretical foundation for the related legislation in China.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)