On April 26–27, the DKU Pre-Law Society hosted the third official Sino-International Collegiate Moot Court Competition on DKU’s campus in Kunshan. The moot court was held between a DKU-selected board of attorneys and the XJTLU Law Society. Generously funded by the DKU CSCC, this moot court centered on a fictionalized case, “Campora News v. SourceAI,” wherein a major European news agency sues a U.S.-based tech company for allegedly using copyrighted content to train its large language model, “TalkGPT.” This case was designed to reflect current arising legal challenges in data use and intellectual property increasingly facing AI corporations and copyright holders in China and abroad.
This iteration of the Sino-International Moot Court Initiative additionally welcomed high school students from Yew Chung International School to campus for a two-day immersive legal education experience. YCIS is an international K-12 institution with locations in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Qingdao and Silicon Valley, USA. Flying in from Beijing, Chongqing, and Hong Kong campuses, selected YCIS students participated in a curated series of workshops and events designed to introduce them to fundamentals of Western legal reasoning, public speaking, and presentation skills, all focusing on international legal challenges from a Chinese perspective.
Participants from both XJTLU and YCIS remarked on the relevance of the case to current affairs as well as the engaging activities and resourced provided by DKU Pre-Law. Students were excited to use DKU’s academic freedom as a springboard to explore difficult and controversial topics relating to tech, society, and China’s global position.
This event marked the first time DKU Pre-Law has hosted such a delegation from across China for a weekend of workshops, and it looks forward to promoting continued Sino-foreign legal discourse through expansions of its Sino-International Collegiate Moot Court initiative with other institutions. The DKU Pre-Law Society would like to warmly thank the CSCC for its sponsorship in making this event a reality for all three involved institutions and 50+ student participants.
