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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

By Liu Li<br />

By Liu Li<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong>, Beijing, March 16th, 2004: the Dell <strong>English</strong> Cup Debate Final between<br />

representatives from Thailand and Hong Kong, as an important event constituting<br />

the first Asian Law Students‘ Association Conference, is held today in the Simulated<br />

Courtroom <strong>of</strong> Law School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, with the Hong Kong team being the<br />

final winner.<br />

Over a classic case <strong>of</strong> domestic violence in which a woman killed her husband<br />

during the latter‘s sound asleep out <strong>of</strong> the fear <strong>of</strong> continuously being abused, the<br />

debate turns out to be a rather hot one around the topic that whether the woman‘s<br />

action constitutes self-defense. Hong Kong team states that law should protected the<br />

underprivileged group while the Thailand team insists that the woman killed her<br />

husband when the latter is sleeping, and ―a sleeping man can harm no one‖; in<br />

addition to this, ―three stabs were not self-defense‖, ―she is intended to kill the guy‖.<br />

After a debate with both sides asking and answering questions and final statements<br />

<strong>of</strong> their own positions, the debate ends with Hong Kong team winning with an<br />

advantage by 68 points. Mr. Steve, a teacher now teaching in Dell <strong>English</strong>, once<br />

working as a probation <strong>of</strong>ficer in the state <strong>of</strong> Connecticut, U.S., who was invited as<br />

one <strong>of</strong> today‘s judges, comments on today‘s debates as practical in that it ―addresses<br />

problem that is universal‖.<br />

The Dell <strong>English</strong> Cup Debate was held as one essential component <strong>of</strong> the First Asian<br />

Law Students‘ Association Conference (ALSAC for short) held in the Law School <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> as commemorating to the centennial celebration <strong>of</strong> the latter. Law<br />

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