On October 13, Elwen Evans, the dean of Swansea University law school, and Professor Baris Soyer, director of the Trade Law Research Center, visited DMU Law School and also gave lectures. Associate professor Zhang, Jinlei, Yang, Xiaonan and all the Law School graduates attended the lectures.
Lecture topics were How to Be a Successful Silk? --- The Art of Advocacy by Elwen Evans and the Insurance Act 2015---- The New Regime for England and Wales by Baris Soyer.
Time was limited though everyone had totally immersed in the warm atmosphere of the lecture. Students at present were attracted by the wonderful speeches of two professors and stood through the cathedra.
In the end, Law School JM student Liu Ru who as “1+1” exchange student in Swansea University gave a brief introduction to us. He obtained a dual LLM degree after graduation. And he would be also the first dual LLM degree exchange student in Law School.
The lecture improved academic communication between two parties. Professor Chu, Beiping, dean of DMU Law School met with two professors and also had an in-depth discussion on international exchange, academic interactive communication, etc.
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Professor Elwen Evans QC: Head of Law School, who graduated from Cambridge University. She was awarded the highest scholarship. She is one of the greatest criminal barristers in UK, and obtained Queen’s Counsel in 2002. She also was appointed to Recorders in the criminal adjudication tribunal of British Royal Superior Court. In 2006, she was elected as Becncher of Gray’s INN (The four societies are gray's inn, Lincoln’s inn, inner temple and middle temple) in London.
Professor Soyer was appointed as a lecturer at Swansea in 2001 and was promoted to readership in 2006 and professorship in 2009. He was appointed as the Director of the Institute of Shipping and Trade Law at the School of Law, Swansea in October 2010. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Exeter. He is currently the Head of the Department of Shipping and Trade Law and is involved in the teaching of the following modules in our LLM programme: Admiralty Law, Marine Insurance Law and Oil and Gas Law: Contracts and Liabilities. His principal research interest is in the field of insurance, particularly marine insurance, but his interests extend broadly throughout maritime law and contract law. Apart from writing two monographs, he published extensively in elite journals such as Cambridge Law Journal, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Berkeley Journal of International Law, Journal of Business Law, Torts Law Journal and Journal of Contract Law. He is one of the editors of the Journal of International Maritime Law and is also on the editorial board of Shipping and Trade Law and Baltic Maritime Law Quarterly.
