The Commercial Law Roundtable: Theory and Practice of Representative Action Mechanism for Securities Disputes was successfully held on August 13, 2020. The roundtable series, initiated by the Commercial Law Department of CASS Law Institute, aims to promote researches on frontier issues of commercial law theory and practice and the construction of the commercial rule of law in China. The current round of the roundtable took “Theory and Practice of Representative Action Mechanism for Securities Disputes” as its theme and was attended by experts and scholars from various research institutions and universities in China and Singapore, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Singapore Management University, Central University of Finance and Economics, East China University of Political Science and Law, Zhejiang University, Zhengzhou University, and CASS.

The roundtable was presided over by Professor Chen Jie, head of the Commercial Law Department of CASS Law Institute. In a speech given on behalf of organizer of the roundtable, she introduced the institutional background and the great significance of the representative action mechanism for securities disputes and encouraged the participants to put forward suggestions and proposals on improving the theory and practice of the mechanism in China. At the roundtable, the participants gave keynote speeches and carried out in-depth discussions on various issues relating to the theme of the roundtable from the perspectives of substantive and procedural laws. At the end of the roundtable, Professor Chen Jie gave a comprehensive summarization of the issues discussed at the roundtable.