IAS 2022-2023 Legal Culture Lecture – “Liaocheng Yu Huan Case from the Perspective of Legal Culture”
高研院2022-2023學年法律文化講座 —— “法律文化視野下的聊城于歡案”
IAS 2022-2023 Legal Culture Lecture – “Liaocheng Yu Huan Case from the Perspective of Legal Culture” was successfully held on March 3 in the Library Auditorium of the Wu Yee Sun Library of the University of Macau. We invited Professor Liang Zhiping, a famous Chinese jurist, who put the famous “Liaocheng Yu Huan case” in the context of Chinese history, culture, and reality, trying to reveal the difficulties faced by judges in handling the Yu Huan case and its underlying reasons, as well as the limits of the law to respond to the public. Professor Yu Xingzhong, the Director of the IAS, was invited to be the moderator.
Professor Liang first reviewed the facts and trial process of the case from a popular TV series “Bottom Line”. Yu Huan, the defendant in the “Mother Humiliation Case”, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of intentional injury in the first instance. This judgment aroused strong criticism from the public. The sentence of the second instance was changed, and Huan’s sentence was reduced on the grounds of excessive defense and the victim’s fault, which was considered to have achieved good “legal and social effects.” Professor Liang believes that there are two different legal and folk interpretations of the Yu Huan case and the “mother humiliation case” in the story of the Yu Huan.
Secondly, Professor Liang focused on interpreting the keywords of legal reasoning and trial in the second-instance judgment of the Yu Huan case. Professor Liang finally said that although the judgment tried to combine law and public opinion, legal principles, and rationality, there were many confusions, contradictions, and inferences. The judgment has not really changed the conservative tradition of the judiciary in the application of laws related to self-defense, nor has it really responded to public opinion at the level of value and rationale.
The meeting was held online and offline, which attracted the attention and active participation of nearly a hundred participants from our school, and had a lively discussion on the topic of the interaction between public opinion and judicial trials, and the response to public opinion under the legal framework.
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高研院2022-2023學年法律文化講座 —— “法律文化視野下的聊城于歡案”于3月3日在澳門大學伍宜孫圖書館演講廳成功舉辦。本次會議邀請到我國著名法學家梁治平教授，梁教授將名噪一時的“聊城于歡案件”置于中國歷史文化及現實語境中，試圖揭示法官在處理于歡案時面對的困境及其深層原因，以及法律回應民意的限度。是次講座由人文社科高等研究院院長於興中教授主持。
梁教授首先從熱播電視劇《底綫》，回顧了該案的案情與審判過程。“辱母殺人案”之被告人于歡，一審被判故意傷害罪，處無期徒刑，此一判決引發了社會公眾的強烈批評。二審改判，以存在防衛過當、被害人過錯等事由對于歡減輕量刑，被認為取得了良好的“法律效果和社會效果”。梁教授認爲，于歡案這一故事，存在“于歡案”與“辱母案”兩種法律與民間的不同解讀，兩者對“辱母”這一行爲的人倫關切以及內裏的邏輯大相徑庭。
本場講座，梁教授重點解讀于歡案二審判決書中法律推理與審判的關鍵詞，梁教授表示，該判決雖力兼法律與民意、法理與情理，但是仔細觀察，其中不乏混淆、矛盾和推理上的混亂，既沒有真正改變司法界以往在適用正當防衛相關法律時的保守傳統，也沒有真正在價值理據的層面上回應民意。
本次會議以線上線下結合的形式舉行，吸引了來自我校近百名參加者的廣泛關注和積極參與，並就輿情與司法審判之間的互動、法律框架之下對民意的回應等問題展開了熱烈的討論。
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