Associate Professor Pan Deng of the College was invited to deliver a lecture to the Latin American Judicial Training Programme at the National Judges College of China on 14 July. Following the lecture, Pan Deng engaged in in-depth discussions with all participating judges until 16 July.
The programme was attended by 29 judges and justices from Mexico, Uruguay, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Colombia, Cuba and Costa Rica, as well as two judicial professionals from Panama.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the official operation of the China–Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (China–CELAC) Forum. In May, the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum was held in Beijing, where the Beijing Declaration and the Joint Action Plan (2025–2027) were adopted. The Latin American Judicial Training Programme, organised by the Supreme People's Court of China, is a concrete initiative to implement the consensus reached at the meeting and deepen judicial exchange and cooperation between China and Latin America. By means of professional lectures and high-level dialogues, the programme aims to share practical judicial experience, enhance mutual understanding of respective legal systems, and lay a foundation of rule-of-law cooperation and judicial trust for the realisation of joint action goals.
Pan's lecture, which focused on China's foreign-related legislation and judicial system, sparked enthusiastic responses among the participants and significantly increased their interest in China's socialist rule of law system. At the invitation of the attendees, Pan continued to hold post-lecture Q&A sessions and roundtable discussions, responding to each query in a dialogic format. He helped participants understand Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law by tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation, philosophical foundations and developmental logic, thereby illustrating the historical, theoretical, and practical necessity of the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Through such exchanges, the judges came to appreciate that understanding China’s legal system requires moving beyond the Western legal discourse and instead considering it within the framework of values shared by all humanity. Despite institutional differences, many aspects of China's rule-of-law practice share essential commonalities with those of their own countries and offer meaningful reference grounded in local conditions.
Earlier, on 20 May, shortly after the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China–CELAC Forum, Pan was also invited to lecture the Peruvian Judicial Training Programme, attended by 28 judges and justices at the National Judges College. In his lecture titled China's Foreign-related Commercial Legal System and Judicial Practice, and during the ensuing discussions, Pan interpreted the legal dimensions of China–Latin America cooperation. He also engaged in in-depth dialogue on issues such as the compliance operations of Chinese enterprises in Peru and the judicial protection of their legitimate rights and interests.
