From November 8 to 9, the 2024 Annual Conference of China Criminal Law Research Society was held in Southwest University of Political Science and Law. The conference thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the theme of "Research on the Construction of China's Independent Knowledge System of Criminal Law", and set up five parallel sub-forums for discussion, including "Research on the Basic Issues of the Construction of China's Independent Knowledge System of Criminal Law", "Research on Frontier Issues of Criminal Law Theory", "Understanding and Application of Criminal Law Amendment (XII)", "Criminal Law Issues in the Revision of Criminal Procedure Law", and "Chinese Experience in the Judicial Governance of Crime in the New Era", and for the first time, a forum for master's and doctoral students was held. The scale of the conference was grand, with a total of more than 500 scholars and practical experts from the domestic criminal law theory field. The conference was organized by the China Criminal Law Research Society, undertaken by Southwest University of Political Science and Law, and co-organized by Beijing Kyoto Law Firm and Beijing Guanheng Law Firm.

In the keynote speech of "Parallel Forum II: Research on Frontier Issues of Criminal Law Theory (Below)", Associate Professor Liu Chunhua of our college made a keynote report with the title of "Automation or Autonomy: Breakthrough of Dilemma of Liability Attribution to Subjects of Traffic Accidents of Autonomous Driving Vehicles". The report pointed out that with the improvement of automatic driving level, the driving behavior of human drivers gradually weakened or even disappeared, especially in L4 and L5 level, the existing traffic laws and regulations and traditional attribution principles have been unable to adapt to the needs of the automatic driving era, and it is suggested that in the allocation of responsibility for traffic accidents, we should distinguish between automated and autonomous to determine the "human user" and the "human user". It is suggested that when assigning responsibility for traffic accidents, we should distinguish between auomated and autonomous to determine whether the "human user" should fulfill the duty of care and be held responsible for violating the duty of care.

After all the keynote speech sessions, the conference presented awards to the outstanding papers of the annual conference, and the paper attended by Associate Professor Liu Chunhua of our college won the Third Prize of Outstanding Paper of the 2024 National Conference of the Chinese Society of Criminal Law Studies.