Professor Paul Roberts visits China University of Political Science and Law

Professor Paul Roberts spent two weeks of March in Beijing visiting the China University of Political Science and Law, as part of his concurrent appointment as Adjunct Professor of Law in CUPL's Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science. Professor Roberts' appointment is funded by the Chinese Government's '111 Plan' Base for Evidence Science Innovation and Talent Recruitment, and also involves membership of the China Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization (CICJC, China) and the International Association of Evidence Science (IAES), of which Professor Roberts is the sole British council member.

On this visit – his fourth in consecutive years – Professor Roberts taught an intensive lecture course on Criminal Evidence, Forensic Science and Expert Witness Testimony: An English Common Law Perspective to a class of about 20 postgraduate students, faculty members and visiting scholars and legal practitioners.

The course was delivered at CUPL's central Beijing Haidian campus.

In addition to his teaching contributions, Professor Roberts is developing research collaborations with Chinese scholars at CUPL and other Beijing law schools, where he has given guest lectures and faculty seminars. Two of these papers, 'From Evidence to Proof' and 'Five Foundational Fallacies of Common Law Evidence', have already been translated into Chinese and published in legal periodicals.