In November 2025, Emanuel V. Towfigh was invited to China for nearly a week to participate in high-level academic events and to contribute his perspectives to international scholarly debates.

The visit began on 6 November 2025 with the workshop »New ideas in legal scholarship« at the Peking University Law School. Together with international colleagues, Emanuel V. Towfigh discussed recent developments in legal scholarship and their implications for future methodological and interdisciplinary approaches.

On 8 November 2025, he participated as a panelist in the session »Anti-Discrimination Law at a Crossroad: Challenges of Generative AI« at the Beijing Forum 2025.

The Beijing Forum is an annual international academic conference founded in 2004. It is sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Government and supervised by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. Co-organizers include Peking University, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies. Over the past two decades, more than 7,000 senior officials and scholars have participated in the Forum. The 2025 edition focused on the overarching theme »Artificial Intelligence, Law, and Society« and brought together experts from around the world.

On 9 November 2025, the visit continued in Wuzhen, where Emanuel V. Towfigh took part as a panelist in a roundtable discussion at the World Internet Forum Wuzhen. The panel, titled »Building Common Ground for Good Law and Governance for AI«, addressed the question of how global standards for the responsible regulation of artificial intelligence can be developed and coordinated.

To conclude his stay, Prof. Towfigh returned to Beijing on 10 November 2025 and delivered a lecture entitled »Recent Developments of Law and Economics in Europe and Germany« as part of the Global and Comparative Law Lecture Series at Peking University Law School. His presentation highlighted recent developments in the field and their impact on legal policy debates and legal practice in Europe.

Emanuel V. Towfigh extends his sincere thanks to the inviting institutions for their generous hospitality and for the inspiring academic exchange, which made the visit a particularly rewarding scholarly experience.

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