“长江学者特聘教授、武汉大学法学院院长肖永平抄袭美国西蒙尼德斯发表的英文论文《20世纪末的国际私法进步还是退步？》，将他摘译成中文，隐去原作者名字，改叫《法律选择理论若干问题回顾》，在《法学研究》2001年第3期发表。西蒙尼德斯论文后来被别人翻译为中文在《民商法论丛》2002年第3号发表，于是肖永平尴尬了。”方舟子的这条微博在网上发布后，引发了公众的极大关注。

"The Yangtze river scholars, professor/Wuhan university law school dean XiaoYongPing copied English papers published in the journal of the American, simone DE[Step forward or a step back at the end of the 20 th century private international law?],He period into Chinese,Implicit to the original author name,To change that[Choice of law theory review some issues],In the[Legal research]2001 published.Simone's papers translated into Chinese by others in later[Shan wenhua]Published in 2002, no. 3,So XiaoYongPing embarrassing."Fang this article micro bo after the release on the Internet,Caused the attention of the public.

　　昨天，记者辗转联系上肖永平教授。肖永平说，其论文是在20多个文献的基础上完成的，论文抄袭与否有待同行专家评析。关于论文研究的内容，肖永平承认与西蒙尼德斯那篇论文主要探讨的内容是一样的。记者问其论文与西蒙尼德斯究竟有何区别，肖称“现在没办法跟你说那么清楚”。

yesterday,Reporter in contact XiaoYongPing professor.XiaoYongPing said,The thesis is on the basis of more than 20 literature,Paper copy or not remains to be experts.About the content of the paper,XiaoYongPing admitted with simone, the essay mainly discusses the content is the same.The reporter asked the papers and simone, what is the difference,Shaw said"Now can't tell you so clear".

　　对于方舟子打假一事，肖永平称“现在没有看法”，还没有决定是否回应。（见习记者朱佳琦）

Fang for fighting,XiaoYongPing said"There is no opinion",Haven't decided whether to respond.(Trainee reporter ZhuJiaQi)