On the morning of October 21, the inaugural session of the "Minglv Practicum · Legal Practice Forum" was held at the D101 Lecture Hall of Qiming Building, Lihu Campus. Xi Xiangyang, General Counsel of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA), delivered a lecture titled "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards" to graduate students in the international arbitration program. Xiong Wei, Dean of the School of Law, and Zhou Wei, Vice Dean, were among those in attendance.

The forum, whose name conveys the idea of "understanding the law and putting it into practice," aims to bring seasoned legal practitioners onto campus and build a bridge between legal theory and professional practice. A former judge of the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court and of the Fourth Civil Division and the International Commercial Court of the Supreme People's Court, Xi used the Yukos case as a starting point to explain the core provisions of the New York Convention and the debates over its implementation across jurisdictions, and discussed inter-regional enforcement arrangements among mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao. Students actively raised questions during the interactive session.