On the afternoon of March 12, the 29th lecture of the "Foreign-Related Rule of Law and Global Governance Lecture Series" of KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University was held in Conference Room 206, Zhesheng Hall, Xuhui Campus. This session specially invited Professor Björn Ahl, Chair Professor of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne, Germany, and President of the European China Law Studies Association, as the keynote speaker. The lecture was hosted by Professor Guo Yanjun, Vice Dean of KoGuan School of Law. Professor Jiang Hongzhen, Professor Zheng Ge and Associate Professor Wang Bin served as commentators. Associate Professor Zhang Guobin, Assistant to the Dean and Director of the International Affairs Office, together with many students, attended the event.

Professor Guo Yanjun welcomed Professor Björn Ahl's visit and introduced that he has long been engaged in the research of Chinese law. His recent academic edited work China's Smart Courts in a Comparative Perspective and other works are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He has profound attainments and extensive influence in the field of Sino-German comparative legal studies.

At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Björn Ahl delivered a report entitled "Court Judgment Databases: A Comparative Perspective". Taking the demand of smart courts for digital judgment documents as the starting point, he systematically compared the legal frameworks and development status of judgment document databases in China and Germany. He pointed out that digital judgment documents are the core for the training of AI-assisted adjudication systems, and judgment data is the key support for the operation of smart courts.

In the discussion session, Professors Jiang Hongzhen, Zheng Ge, Wang Bin and others, combined with China's judicial reform practice and the needs of foreign-related rule of law construction, conducted in-depth discussions with Professor Björn Ahl on issues such as the institutional logic of publicizing judgment documents in China and Germany, the definition of personal information protection boundaries, and data governance in the construction of smart courts. The on-site exchange atmosphere was enthusiastic. Teachers and students attending the lecture also actively raised questions about practical difficulties in the construction of judgment document databases and paths for mutual learning between Chinese and German legal systems. Professor Björn Ahl answered them one by one in detail, bringing cutting-edge comparative law research perspectives and professional insights to teachers and students.

The lecture came to a successful conclusion with warm applause. Based on the background of foreign-related rule of law and global governance, this lecture provided important international references for the development of China's smart courts and the improvement of the foreign-related rule of law system through a comparative study on the publicity of judgment document databases in China and Germany.