w88 casino News Network (provided by the Law w88 casino)In 2025, we celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Shen Daming, a leading figure in my country’s legal field and a famous teacher at the w88 casino. As an internationally influential jurist, Mr. Shen Daming, with his profound academic attainments and broad international vision, has been deeply engaged in the fields of comparative law, international commercial law, etc., laying an important foundation for the development of my country's legal disciplines. As a pioneer in education, he teaches by words and deeds on the podium of the University of International w88 and Economics, and has cultivated generations of legal talents with his rigorous scholarly attitude and noble teacher style. On this occasion, we sort out Mr. Shen Daming’s life story and academic footprint, not only to look back on his efforts in legal studies and education, but also to inherit his spirit of caring for his family and country and pursuing the truth.
Mr. Shen Daming: The intellectual life and spiritual beacon of a “Republic of China-style” scholar
In the long river of time, Mr. Shen Daming's portfolio lies quietly with a few pages of yellowed paper - those are his doctoral admissions questions: "Explanation of terms, choose three out of five, including 'technology transfer'." This simple question hides a law student A dean’s simplest understanding of academics and practice; outside the portfolio is the series of monographs on "International Business Law" that he has been writing continuously since he was seventy years old, the proofreading of the French version of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" that he compiled, and the half-century he spent with old Beitu newspapers and original foreign works. These fragments, connected by the memories of his disciple Professor Huang Yong, outline the three-dimensional outline of a "Republic of China-style" scholar - knowledgeable as the abyss, scholarly as foolish, profound in the ordinary, and distinguished in the subtleties.
Studying in France: Knowledge grows from the "tip of the horn"
Mr. Shen Daming’s academic background began when he was studying at the University of Paris in his youth. At that time, he was carrying an old suitcase full of original French books and listening to lectures by masters of law in the lecture theaters of the University of Paris. He was proficient in French, English, German, and Latin languages, but he always said to others: "It would be great if I knew Japanese - the content of China's "Six Laws Complete Book" was transmitted in the order of Europe-Japan-China. The missing link of Japanese is always like missing a key." This kind of humility and persistence in knowledge lasted throughout his life.
Teacher Huang Yong remembers that he once chatted with Mr. Shen Daming about current international affairs, and unexpectedly discovered that Mr. Shen Daming also knew a lot about the Suez Canal and explained everything clearly. How could a law professor know so clearly about the Suez Canal? Teacher Huang Yong raised his question to Mr. Shen Daming. Mr. Shen explained that in Paris, he had a "paranoid" law professor: the professor was so passionate about the history of the Suez Canal that he specially opened a "Suez Canal Special Course." Mr. Shen Daming listened for a whole semester and understood everything from the geographical background to shipping economy, from capital game to the operation of the operating system. "Knowledge is not something that floats on the surface. It has to be dug deep like digging a well. In addition to academics, there are also interests and passions." This "getting to the bottom of things" academic spirit became a footnote to his academic career.
In the 1950s, Mr. Shen Daming took advantage of the opportunity to teach French at the University of International w88 (then known as Beijing Institute of Foreign w88). This teaching lasted more than twenty years. As the saying goes: "Language is the key to the law." Mr. Shen has always believed that only by being able to read the original foreign language texts of legal works can we truly understand the true meaning of the law. It was not until 1978 that he took charge of the Foreign w88 Law Teaching and Research Office. He turned to legal teaching after he had passed the old age, and began to concentrate on writing after he was seventy years old. At this time, he had already integrated French and English language skills, legal knowledge and insight into China's reality. Mr. Shen wrote papers by hand all his life, maintaining high-intensity creative dynamics with only the pen in his hand. 23 books including "International Business Law", "International w88 Law", "Preliminary Essay on Comparative Civil Procedure Law", "U.S. Banking Law" and "Quasi Contract Law and Restitution Law" were published one after another, becoming the foundation works of China's international business law community.
In and outside the classroom: the warmth of a "big man" is hidden in the ordinary
Teacher Huang Yong said that if he could communicate with Mr. Shen again, he would like to learn from Mr. Shen’s summary of knowledge and his ability to transform theory into practice. In 1996, Mr. Huang Yong went to the United States for further study and lived in the home of the dean of the University of Connecticut w88 casino of Law. This law professor majored in labor law. When talking about American legal education, Mr. Shen suddenly asked: "Do the American labor law professors you have contacted lean towards labor unions or employers?" Mr. Huang Yong couldn't answer, so Mr. Shen said: "Labor law professors generally have political leanings. You have to look at their political background first - those who lean toward labor unions are mostly Democrats, and those who lean toward employers are mostly Republicans. "The academic stance of labor law professors is often linked to political leanings." This sentence broke through the blind spot of Teacher Huang Yong's observation. After a period of contact, I found that the academic views of this American professor really corresponded to his political stance. "Later, I realized that your knowledge is not from the study, but is rooted in reality."
This "rooted" attitude permeates every detail of his life. Teacher Huang Yong remembers that the wife of a colleague worked in a bank and took a contract in English and asked him for advice on the guarantee clauses (more than ten lines, no punctuation). Mr. Shen laughed when he saw it: "You don't understand. This is the 'autonomy of will' clause in British case law. It has a unique expression in British law. Hong Kong lawyers who are from the Anglo-American legal system may understand it, but we have to find out." Mr. Shen Daming gave them a detailed explanation of this complex British clause on the spot, from the overall meaning of the contract, to the background of the contract and British law, to the reasons why ordinary Chinese bank workers could not understand it. Later, in order to facilitate the questioner's understanding, I read through the materials, wrote special notes, and compiled the written text.
Mr. Shen’s rigorous academic attitude and profound knowledge greatly admired Mr. Huang Yong, but what touched Mr. Huang Yong most was his “pyrotechnics”.
Mr. Shen’s life pattern is three points and one line between Beitu, home and w88 casino. Mr. Shen was rigorous and conscientious in his work, and Mr. Rong Yiren also asked him to be a consultant. He trusted his ability to work rigorously and conscientiously, and the two became acquaintances. However, he loved to eat foreign chocolates, milk powder and other desserts that seemed inconsistent with his "temperament"; during the Cultural Revolution , lack of material resources, when he was teaching French at the "Xiaotangshan" Foreign w88 Cadre Management College, every weekend, he would bring the freshest fruits and vegetables picked from the fields to his wife when he came home from the suburbs; he loved smoking cigars, but he always said, "This is a spice of life, not a hobby."
Chuideng: From "Shenmen" to the continuation of "the spirit of the University of International w88"
In 1999, Mr. Huang Yong was admitted to Mr. Shen Daming’s doctoral degree. The professional questions from that year are still unforgettable for him: "The answer time is three hours, choose three noun explanations, and one of the questions is 'technology transfer'. Just four simple words, I filled two pieces of paper." Mr. Shen's investigation covered the comprehensiveness of theory and contracts Practical clauses and other multi-angle and all-round contents are spelled out one by one, from definitions to the rights and obligations of both parties to the distribution of legal responsibilities, focusing on the implementation and practice of legal theory. Although seemingly simple legal terms, the theoretical and practical issues involved behind them are intertwined.
"Sir's academic ability is hidden in the word 'useful'." Teacher Huang Yong said. When he was taking the Ph.D. exam, the questions asked by Mr. Shen were never memorized by rote, but pointed to real problems in practice. This “problem awareness” profoundly influenced Mr. Huang Yong’s later research—from international competition law to antitrust law, he always paid attention to real problems in China’s market economy.
Nowadays, Mr. Shen Daming has left for more than 20 years, but his spirit still flows on the campus of the University of International w88 and Economics. Teacher Huang Yong inherited his "problem awareness" and "interdisciplinary vision" and expanded his territory in the field of antitrust law - from participating in the drafting of the "Antitrust Law" to leading the competition policy forum, he always followed his teacher's advice that "knowledge must solve real problems", turning the classroom into a corporate workshop and a courtroom, allowing students to touch the pulse of the law in practice.
The more profound impact is that the belief of "knowledge serving society" has been integrated into the blood of the people of Tongfa. Just like Mr. Shen turned the "Suez Canal Course" at the University of Paris into a case, today's legal professionals are also writing fresh practices in the Chinese market into new teaching materials - they design compliance guides for small and medium-sized enterprises, provide solutions for cross-border w88 disputes, and explore new rules at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law. In these actions, you can see the shadow of Mr. Shen: the "grounding" he taught has turned into a deep cultivation of practice; the "interdisciplinary" he emphasized has turned into a focus on the integration of economy, technology and law; his lifelong "service to society" has turned into the consciousness of business law practitioners to use law to help the market economy. As practiced by Mr. Shen, in addition to laws and professions, legal professionals should also understand society, humanities, industry and other kinds of knowledge, so that they can have a more practical understanding of the rules.
Mr. Shen Daming may have never thought about the word "inheritance", but the attitude of "being practical in learning and being sincere in life" he interpreted throughout his life has long become the most precious spiritual gene for the lawyers of the University of International w88.(Written by: Wang Haoyu Reviewed by: Li Huanhuan)
