Recently, the 2nd Legal Big Data Essay Competition was successfully concluded and organized by the China Justice Big Data Institute under the guidance of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China. Master’s student Chen Yanyu from the School of Law at the City University of Macau won second prize for her article on the suspended sentences for drink driving under specific circumstances. Her article was an empirical analysis based on 116 judicial documents from Guangzhou over the past three years.
The Legal Big Data Essay Competition was organized by the China Justice Big Data Institute with the strong support of major law schools across the country. It was co-organized or supported by more than 20 core law journals such as the Peking University Law Journal and the Tribune of Political Science and Law. The competition aims to implement Xi Jinping’s ideology of rule of law, unleash the potential of judicial big data research, demonstrate the value and role of judicial big data in empirical research, promote a comprehensive transformation of the research paradigm in law, cultivate law and empirical research talents with innovative thinking, focus on the theme of “justice and efficiency,” and assist in making the judiciary more active, further promoting the application of judicial big data, and providing a broad platform for serving the governance of legal sources and society.
The competition received active support and a total of 376 organizations participated, submitting a total of 1,165 entries. After multiple rounds of review by experts and professionals from universities, authoritative law journals, editors-in-chief, deputy editors-in-chief, and editorial departments, a total of 193 winning articles were selected, including 50 in the undergraduate category, 101 in the postgraduate category, and 42 in the category for researchers and practitioners in science and judicial practice.
Source: School of Law
