Peking University Law School issued an obituary on December 31, Mr. Zhang Wen, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a famous jurist, a legal educator, a professor at Peking University Law School, and a doctoral supervisor, at 11:29 am on December 31, 2023 Fen died of illness in Beijing at the age of 83.
Source: Peking University Law School official website
Zhang Wen has long served as secretary of the party branch and party committee of the Department of Law of Peking University (later concurrently as deputy director of the department), and served as a member of the Academic Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Peking University. After retiring in 2004, Zhang Wen was successively appointed as the dean of the Law School of Macau University of Science and Technology and a professor of the Law School of Ningbo University, and continued to pay attention to and support the construction and development of the criminal law discipline of Peking University.
Peking University Law School introduced that Zhang Wen has made many groundbreaking contributions to the study of criminal law in my country. In his early years, he devoted himself to the research on basic theoretical issues of criminal law such as criminal law attributes, criminal objects, and causal relationships, and put forward many unique insights with far-reaching influence. Recently, Zhang Wen established the "personality criminal jurisprudence" that is based on China's local practice and expanded the research territory of my country's criminal jurisprudence. Zhang Wen has long thought about the identification and treatment of criminals, and is concerned about the death penalty in China.
"Mr. Zhang Wen has devoted himself to teaching for decades, devoted himself to educating people, and made outstanding contributions to the discipline construction and talent cultivation of Peking University Law School. The death of Mr. Zhang Wen is a major loss to Peking University Law School , is also a great loss to China’s criminal law community. We deeply mourn and cherish Mr. Zhang Wen’s memory!” Peking University Law School stated in its obituary.
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