On December 27, 2025, the seminar on “Exploration of Artificial Intelligence + Rule of Law Practice Talent Cultivation Mode” of School of Law of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) was successfully held in Beijing, and more than 20 external instructors from judicial practice departments and famous law firms gathered with teachers and students of the School of Law, discussing the cultivation of rule of law talents in the era of intelligence, and President Li Shouping and Vice President Sun Tianquan of the School of Law of BIT attended the meeting. Li Shouping, Dean of the School of Law, and Sun Tianquan, Vice Dean of the School of Law, attended the meeting. As the external tutor of Master of Laws of Beijing Institute of Technology, Mr. Qi Xiaoling, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, was invited to attend the meeting and made a keynote speech titled “Path of Cultivating Composite Talents of Artificial Intelligence + Law Practice” in the first unit, sharing unique insights from the perspective of criminal defense practice, which triggered a wide range of resonance.
Combining her years of experience in criminal defense practice, Ms. Qi Xiaoling directly hit the pain point of the interface between the current training of legal talents and the needs of the intelligent era. She pointed out that artificial intelligence technology is profoundly reshaping the ecology of the legal profession, from the intelligent retrieval of case files and accurate delivery of class cases, to the analysis of sentencing assistance and compliance risk assessment, intelligent tools have become an important helper for criminal defense work.
Around the “artificial intelligence + legal practice” composite talent training path, Qi Xiaoling lawyers put forward three core initiatives. First, to build a “legal norms + technology application + practice scenarios” trinity course system, the addition of criminal intelligence case handling system practice, judicial big data analysis and other courses, the application of intelligent tools in the practice of criminal defense cases into the classroom teaching; second, to deepen the "universities + law firms + technology enterprises Second, deepen the “universities + law firms + technology enterprises” collaborative education mechanism, promote the establishment of criminal defense intelligent training base, so that students in the simulation of file combing, class case comparison, trial debates and other real-life scenarios, to train the “human-machine collaboration” practical ability; Third, strengthen the cultivation of the digital ethics of the rule of law, especially in the field of criminal defense, we need to guide students to clarify the positioning of intelligent tools to assist, adhere to the Thirdly, to strengthen the cultivation of digital rule of law ethics, especially in the field of criminal defense, students should be guided to clarify the auxiliary position of intelligent tools, adhere to the independent judgment and professional ethics of lawyers, and avoid the interference of technology application on the fair study and judgment of cases.
In her speech, Ms. Qi Xiaoling also emphasized that composite rule of law talents should not only master the use of intelligent tools, but also have the professional quality of mastering technology, so that they can accurately refine the core controversy points of the cases in the huge amount of data, and keep the bottom line of justice in the technological empowerment.
The convening of this external mentor meeting and seminar is an important initiative of BIT Law School to deepen the reform of talent training mode. Participating teachers and students said that the seminar has built a high-quality communication platform, so that we have a clearer knowledge of the development of the rule of law career in the era of artificial intelligence, and in the future, we will continue to rely on the resources of off-campus mentors, promote the deep integration of industry and education, and strive to cultivate more composite rule of law talents with both legal wisdom and technical literacy.
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