From October 3 to 4, 2025, the Sixth International Conference on the Future Rule of Law and Digital Law was successfully convened at the Run Run Shaw Conference Center of Renmin University of China. This forum served as one of the thematic forums of “The Fourth 21st Century International Forum of Law School Deans and Jurists & World Rule of Law Forum in the Era of AI” hosted by Renmin University of China. It was jointly organized by the RUC Law School and JD.com, and co-hosted by the Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of Chin, JD Legal Research Institute, and Center for the Study of Rule of Law in China of Jilin University. Supporting units included the Editorial Office of Digital Law of the People's Court Press, the Digital Law Teaching and Research Center of RUC Law School, the MOE Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation Team on "New Technological Revolution and the Future Rule of Law" and the International Digital Law Association.

Over the course of a day and a half, more than 80 experts and scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Denmark, Japan, Singapore, and other countries delivered presentations and held discussions on themes including the legal framework and global governance of artificial intelligence, intellectual property and data systems in an intelligent society, smart governance of online platforms and digital labor, and the institutional forms and future rule of law in digital civilization. The forum attracted over 200 guests from relevant professional fields and industries, both domestic and international, to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the future rule of law and digital legal studies.

Forum Opening Ceremony Scene

Lin Shangli, President, Renmin University of China

Wang Hongxiang, Party Secretary and Executive Vice President, China Law Society; Membe, Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress; Vice Chairman, Constitution and Law Committee

Jiang Wei, President, China Law Society Cyber and Information Law Society; Vice Chairman, The Supreme People's Court Advisory Committee

Wang Yi, President and Professor, People's Public Security University of China; Vice President, China Law Society

He Zhipeng, Dean and Professor, Jilin University Law School

Hu Huangang, Vice President, JD.com

Wo Xiaojing, Secretary of the Party Committee, Law School, Renmin University of China

Li Mingxuan, Assistant Researcher, Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China; Postdoctoral Fellow, Academy of Interdisciplinary Science/ Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China

Ding Xiaodong, Vice Dean and Professor, Law School, Renmin University of China; Vice Director, Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China

Li Yongjun, Professor, Law School, Jilin University

Zhang Wenxian, Senior Professor of Philosophy and Social Science, Jilin University; President, China Association for Legal Education; Convener, Law Division, MOE Social Science Committee

Zhu Yapin, Procurator-General, Beijing People's Procuratorate

Wang Liming, First-Grade Professor, Renmin University of China; Vice President, China Law Society; President, Civil Law Society of China Law Society

Shi Jianzhong, Dean, the Institute of Data Law, China University of Political Science and Law; Professor, China University of Political Science and Law

Mei Xiaying, Vice President and Professor, University of International Business and Economics

Rainer Kulms, Senior Research Fellow and Professor, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

Seeram Ramakrishna, Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering; Member, Academy of Engineering Singapore; Chair Professor, Tsinghua University; Director, Center for Intelligent Wearable Devices, Tsinghua University

Jacques de Werra, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Zhang Jiyu, Professor, Law School, Renmin University of China; Executive Director, Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China

Lan Lizhuan, Senior Editor, People's Court Press; Director, Editorial Office, Digital Law

William Lucy, Professor, Law School, Durham University

Zhang Xinbao, Professor, Law School, Renmin University of China; Vice President and Chairman of the Academic Committee, China Law Society Cyber and Information Law Society

Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Former Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law; Professor, University of Freiburg

Sun Xiaoxia, Dean and Professor, Research Institute of Digital Law, Zhejiang University

Yang Jianjun, Distinguished Professor of "Chang'an Scholar", Northwest University of Political Science and Law; Editor-in-Chief, Science of Law

Hu Ming, Dean and Professor, Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University

Wang Qinghua, Professor, Law School, Beijing Normal University; Director, Research Center for Digital Economy and Law, Beijing Normal University

Group Photo of Guests for Session 3 "Rule of Law Construction and Global Governance in the Era of AI"

Group Photo of Guests for Session 4 "Intellectual Property and Data Regimes in the Age of Intelligent Society"

Group Photo of Guests for Session 5 "Intelligent Governance of Online Platforms and Digital Labor"

Wang Ying, Professor, Law School, Renmin University of China; Vice Director, Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China

Zhu Zhen, Professor, Law School, Jilin University; Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Rule of Law in China, Jilin University

Wu Guoji, Executive Director, JD Legal Research Institute

Yang Dong, Dean and Professor, Law School, Renmin University of China

Group Photo of Session 6 Guests and Closing Ceremony

Display of Selected Research Achievements from Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China