Bulletin Spring 1988

that it has been a rather successful symposium is indeed a great satisfaction to those who helped to bring it about. In fact, this was the most ambitious and the most expensive conference the Chinese Law Programme has so far attempted. For this, it received support and assistance from many sources. To begin with, Professor Frank Munzel, an enthusiastic participant in the Programme's 1986 symposium on the concepts of law, contributed the seed idea, an outstanding paper, and service beyond the call of duty even for an Organizing Committee member, for he actually did the simultaneous interpretation from English to Chinese and vice versa for several speakers. Needless to say, other members of the Organizing Committee — Erhard Stadtler, Edward Epstein, Jean K.M. Hung and Anthony Dicks — also made essential contributions over the past fifteen months. The office staff of the Chinese Law Programme — Jean K.M. Hung and Doris Wong — put in an untold number of hours during the last few months to attend to all the details and, when they needed help, practically all the other members of the CCAS, led by Dolly Wong, dropped their normal routines and chipped in. So did Dr. H.C. Kuan and Dr. Tony Liao, Director and Deputy Director respectively of the CCAS and members of the Department of Government and Public Administration, especially Dr. Peter N.S. Lee and Mr. Lo Man Chiu. To enable the symposium to proceed in either English or Chinese, a team composed of graduate students in English was organized for translations and simultaneous interpretation. However, this was a task not easily carried out by unseasoned and untrained individuals. Fortunately, Ms. Lorretta S.M. Pang, a former UN interpreter and presently the Deputy Registrar of the University of East Asia in Macao, came to our rescue as did Professor Munzel and Mr. Edward Epstein. Special thanks are due to Mr. David D.W. Ling , Ms. Davina Ling, Mr. C.P. Lin, Mr. Charles Lee and Mr. Philip K.H. Wong for their generous support to the symposium and to the Consulat General de France, the Consulate-General of Japan, and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea for bringing in scholars from their respective countries to attend the symposium. Finally, acknowledgment is made of the continuing support to the work of the Chinese Law Programme by the Wideland Foundation and the Lee Hysan Foundation and of the continuing encouragement given to the Programme by the Vice- Chancellor, Professor Charles K. Kao, and Sir T.L . Yang. It is our sincere hope that this symposium and the other products of the Chinese Law Programme are of use to China's legal workers as well as the international community of legal scholars. *With contributions from Jean KM. Hung, Edward Epstein, Peter N.S. Lee, and Chang Hsin APPENDIX: PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM Details of sessions and papers presented at the symposium were as follows: 25th March Session 1 Chairman: Sir T.L. Yang Professor Frank Munzel (Max-Planck Institut, Hamburg, Germany), 'The Law of Legal Persons — A Comparative View' Professor Gao Chengde (Department of Economic Management, Peking University), 'The Concept and Legal Status of Legal Persons' Discussant: Mr. Anthony Dicks (Barrister at law, Hong Kong) Session 2 Chairman: Dr. Erhard Stadtler Professor Tamas Sarkozy (Law School, Karl Marx University, Budapest, Hungary), 'Law of Partnership and Company-forms in China and Eastern Europe' Professor Jerome A. Cohen (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York and Hong Kong), 'The Civil Law's Impact on Businessmen and Their Lawyers' Discussant: Professor Witmore Gray (University of Michigan Law School, U.S.A.) Session 3 Chairman: Dr. H.C. Kuan (CCAS, CUHK) Professor Witmore Gray, ‘An American Perspective on the Chinese Codification of Civil Law' Discussant: Ms. Jamie Horsley (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York and Hong Kong) 26th March Session 4 Chairman: Dr. Peter N.S. Lee (Department of Government and Public Administration) Professor Xie Huanshi (Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing), ‘Acceptance of Responsibility Contracts and Contracts of Lease with regard to State-Run Enterprises' Mr. Ong Yew Kim (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Hong Kong), ‘Several Principles of Enterprise Established in the Law on Industrial Enterprises Owned by the Whole People’ Discussant: Mr. Gao Zongze (China Legal Service [H.K.] Ltd,) 6