On the evening of March 15, 2023, Chen Hongbing, professor and doctoral supervisor of Southeast University School of Law, was invited to give a lecture on Criminal law is not an intellectual game, but a heavy social responsibility behind it (Southeast University Humanities and Science Literacy Lecture Series) at the auditorium of Southeast University Sipailou Campus. Nearly 500 graduate students (including those who came from Jiulong Lake Campus to attend the lecture at Sipailou Campus) listened to this lecture.

In this lecture, Prof. Chen Hongbing used specific typical and hot cases as a guide and asked questions in successive layers, which aroused students' deep thinking and warm response. On the one hand, Prof. Chen Hongbing started from common sense and made use of the wrong verdict in practice to guide the students to think deeply about the essence of criminal law, pointing out and repeatedly emphasizing that the essence of crime lies in the infringement of legal interests, and there is no crime without the infringement of legal interests. On the other hand, Prof. Chen Hongbing, in a witty and humorous tone, used the question of Who should be saved first when a mother and her girlfriend, whom she has known online for three days, fall into the river at the same time? The question of Who should be saved first? transmits the concept of conflict of obligation and a common sense solution. In addition, Professor Chen Hongbing analyzed the cases of social concern, pointed out the unconventional reasoning of the judges, pointed out the problems of judicial practice, and taught the logic of the operation of the legal system.

During the two-hour lecture, Prof. Chen Hongbing taught the basic theoretical knowledge of criminal law, such as the concept of incompetence, the concept of concurrent offense, the rules of causation, the deterrence of violation, the basic theory of joint criminality, the unfinished form of crime, the theory of the existence or abolition of the death penalty, etc., which enabled the students to understand the undertones of criminal law and see the richness of criminal law theory, so that they could build up a The students were also introduced to the current state of judicial practice in detail and straightforwardly to the real cases in practice, so that they can experience the social reality behind the cases and understand the spirit of criminal law is not an intellectual game, it is behind the heavy social responsibility, so that the theoretical knowledge and In the continuous collision between theoretical knowledge and real-life problems, the students can deeply appreciate the mystery of criminal law interpretation. Finally, Prof. Chen Hongbing concluded with a series of questions, which once again triggered profound reflections among the students.

In the final questioning session, students asked questions enthusiastically, and Prof. Chen Hongbing gave detailed answers one by one, and the lecture ended successfully with warm applause!