Legal Education: Perspectives on Rule of Law in China

A lecture by Professor Wang ZHENMIN, Dean of Tsinghua University, School of Law

Discussed by Stéphanie BALME, CERI-Sciences Po, CNRS, PSIA-Sciences Po

 

Professor WANG is the Dean of the prominent Tsinghua University School of Law, since 2008, is also a member of the Macao and Hong Kong Basic Law Committees under the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress as well as a senior advisor of the Hong Kong and Macao Institute under the main think tank of Chinese government (the National Development and Reform Commission, NDRC).

In January 2013, Prof. Wang was reelected to the Beijing municipal people’s congress and appointed Deputy Chairman of the Law Committee of the same Congress. Moreover, Prof. Wang serves an executive director of the China Law Society and vice-president of China’s association of Constitutional Law. His teaching and research areas focus on comparative Constitutional Law, China’s administrative law and Taiwan issues. Among his many publications, the following two books have been particularly successful: “Center to Special Administrative Region Relationships in China, from a Legal Perspective” (2002) and “Constitutional Review in China” (2004).