Invited by Construction of World-class Universities and World-class Disciplines, “111 Plan” Base for Evidence Science Innovation and Talent Recruitment and Key Laboratory of Evidence Science (Ministry of Education), CUPL, Professor Paul Roberts from the University of Nottingham School of Law (UK) delivered courses on Criminal Evidence, Forensic Science & Expert Witness Testimony: An English Common Law Perspective in CUPL from March 12th to 21st, 2018.

       The course was progressively split into four separate but intrinsically linked topics:

       i: Comparative Methodology and Criminal Adjudication;

       ii: Foundational Concepts, Jurisprudential Method and Institutional Context of English Criminal Evidence;

       iii: Forensic Science, Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice: Institutional Contexts and Challenges;

       iv: Expert Evidence in English Common Law.

 

       During the course, Professor Paul Roberts provided students with a wide range of reading materials and explained with specific and rational lecture notes. Students were encouraged to make an active speech and think critically after case-study and discussions, making it a lively atmosphere.

 

       Those who attended this course were teachers, graduate students, PhD students from different schools including The Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science ("IELFS"), Procedural Law Research Institute and College of Comparative Law of CUPL. Judges from the Supreme People’s Court of PRC and students and teachers from other universities also attended the course. Students have got to know the latest information and gained further apprehension of English law of criminal evidence.  Through thorough pondering of the principles behind it, students learned a lot from this class.

       Professor Paul Roberts from the University of Nottingham School of Law (UK) is a famous British criminal procedure and evidence law expert, also a member of the Advisory Committee of Foreign Experts in Key Laboratory of Evidence Science (Ministry of Education), CUPL, an overseas key member of the “111 Plan” Base for Evidence Science Innovation and Talent Recruitment and member of International evidence science association. Professor Paul Roberts has published more than 80 academic papers, book chapters, essays and comments. His representative publications include: Roberts and Zuckerman, Criminal Evidence (OUP, 2/e 2010), Roberts and Hunter (eds), Criminal Evidence and Human Rights (Hart, 2012), Aitken, Roberts and Jackson, Fundamentals of Probability and Statistical Evidence in Criminal Proceedings (Royal Statistical Society, 2010), Roberts and Redmayne (eds), Innovations in Evidence and Proof (Hart, 2007), and so forth.