General Information
Associate Professor
JSD; Ph.D.
E-mail: jiangzhaoxin@sdu.edu.cn
Education Backgrounds
1. 8/2018-(12,2020), JSD, University of Wisconsin Law School
2. 9/2017-6.2018, JSM, Stanford Law School
3. 9/2005-8/2008. Ph.D. in History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4. 9/2003-1/2005. M.A. in History, Stanford University
5. 9/1999-7/2002. M.A. in Law, Graduation with Excellence, Beijing University
6. 9/1993-7/1997. B.A. in Law, Yantai University
Research Interest
Comparative Constitutional Law, Hong Kong Basic Law, Taiwan’s Constitutional Development,
Chinese Legal History, Law and Society, Administrative Law, Family Law.
Working Experiences
1. 11/2008 up to now, Associate Professor in Law School, Shandong University.
2. 6/2020-6/2021, Honorary Research Associate/Fellow in the Chinese Law Program of Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
3. 8/2012 -8/2014, Postdoctoral Associate in the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School; The First Chinese Translator for the Think Tank “Meridian 180”
4. 2014 up to now, Member of the International Society for Chinese Law and History.
5. 2014 up to now, Co-editor to the Book Series on Chinese Legal History Studies in the 21st Century.
Courses Taught
1. English Course for international Ph.D. Students: Introduction to China’s Law and Legal System; For M.A. students, Chinese Law and Society. For B.A. Students, Introduction to China Studies, Foreign Legal Classics.
2. Chinese Courses for M.A. and B.A. Students: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Chinese Legal History, Family Law, International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, Legal Methodologies, Introduction to Common Law, Introduction to Foreign Judicial Systems, Legal English.
Publications
Books:
1. China Law “Can’t See China”: A Study on Ju Zheng’s Judicial Era (1932-1948), Beijing: Qinghua University Press, 2010.
2. Judicial Nationalism in the Republic of China (1912-1948) , Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming.
Textbook:
Lectures on Modern Chinese Legal History (co-author), Beijing: Jiuzhou Publishing House, 2016.
Edited Book:
Collected Legal Writings by Xie Guansheng, Beijing: Qinghua University Press, forthcoming.
Translation Books (English to Chinese):
1. Bruce Ackerman. The Failure of the Founding Fathers. Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2013; 2017.
2. Annelise Riles. Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets (Introduction and Conclusion Chapters). Beijing: China Democracy and Legal Press, 2013.
SJD Disseration
The Untold Leader of Judicial Review: A Contextual Analysis of China’s Constitutional Court Based on the Diaries
Articles and Book Chapters:
1. “On the First Case under the Hong Kong National Security Act: Impacts of the Habeas Corps Writ Decision to the Development of Hong Kong Basic Law,” Bauhinia Tribune (Hong Kong), 11/12,2020 (forthcoming).
2. “Double Government and the National Security State: A Holistic Perspective on American National Security Law,” Bauhinia Magazine (Hong Kong), 2020 . Available at:
http://api.zjviewpoint.com/share/poetryReview_Details.html?id=4199.
3. “The Untold Leader of Judicial Review: China’s Constitutional Court (1948-1971) and the Innovative Constitutionalism,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, peer-reviewed and waiting for publication decision.
4. “New Legal History in the Diaries: Making China’s Consequential Court(1928-1948) and the Survival of Chinese Legal Exceptionalism”, Modern China, under review for publication.
5. “The Legal Nationalism Movement: An Overview of Judicial Reforms During the ROC Era(1912-1949),” Normal University Law Review, Vol. 5, 2020
6.“Consequential Court and Judicial Leadership: The Unwritten Republican Judicial Tradition in China”, in Ng. & Zhao(eds.), Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
7. “Judicial Nationalism(1922-1931): On the Chinese Judges’ Role in the National Politics”, Qinghua Law Journal, 2017.
8. “Judicial Nationalism Movement in Modern China: A Theoretical Perspective”, in Fudan Law Review, Vol.3, 2016.
9. “The Lost Soul Mates: On the First Judges’ Strike in China”, in PKU Law Review, No.1, Vol 15, 2014.
10. “There was no Judges against Shen Jiaben in the Republic of China”, in Legal History Studies (Taipei), Vol 24, 2013.
11. “Political Control over the Courts and Its Impacts in ROC (1926-1948)”, in Lin Duan at al. (eds.) Justice, Politics and Society in China Mainland: An Empirical Study, Taipei: Hanlu Book & Publishing, 2013.
12. “Wang Jibao and His Minguo Sifazhi”, in Legal History Studies (Taipei), Vol. 21, 2012.
13. “Xinhai Revolution and Republican Legal Reform”, in Ming-Qing Luncong, Vol. 11, 2011.
14. “To Put Law into Historical Perspectives: Law Cases and the Epistemology in Legal Studies”, in Legal Methodology, Vol.8, 2009.
15. “Ju Zheng and Legal Reformations in 1930s”, in Legal History Studies (Taipei), Vol.14, 2008.
Public Talks
1, “Judicial Nationalism: On the Judges’ Political Involvements in ROC”, at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Soochow University (Taipei), March 2016.
2. “The Lost Soul Mates: On the First Judges’ Strike in China”, in the East Asian Law and Culture Colloquium, Cornell Law School, November 2013. (Elected by the JD students as the BEST colloquium talk of the year).
3, “A Pattern for a Larger Judicial Yuan”, at the Law Center of Academia Sinica at Taipei, July 2012.
4, “A Judicial History without Grand Justices”, at Law School of Soochow University (Taipei), June 2012.
Conference English Presentations
1. “The Lost Chinese Republicanism: History of China’s Constitutional Court,” Bi-annual Conference of The International Society for Chinese Law and History, 31 May – 1 Jun 2019, National Taipei University, Taiwan.
2. “Leading the Second Wave of Judicial Review: A Socio-Historical Analysis of China’s Constitutional Court”, 2018 Midwest Law and Society Retreat, UW-Madison.
3. “Daily Perspective: History of a Court in the Chinese Diaries”, Stanford Program in Law and Society 5th Conference for Junior Researchers, Stanford Law School, May, 2018.
4. “Consequential Court and its Leadership: The Unwritten Republican Judicial Tradition in China”, presented on a Conference Beyond Convergence and Divergence – Chinese Legal Reform and Global Legal Order, Hong Kong University, June 1, 2015.
5. “A Magistrate Impeached: An Interpretation of Legal Change”, presented on the International Conference on Chinese Legal Change and Reform, Nanjing, Dec. 10-12, 2011.
Visiting Scholarships
1. 3/1-3/30,2016, Visiting Scholar to Soochow University Law School at Taipei.
2. 7-8/2015. Visiting Scholar to Institute of International Relations, Cheng Chi University at Taipei.
3. 8-12/2014.Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School; Part-time “Meridian 180” Forum Translator.
4. 4-7/2012. Visiting Scholar to Law Institute, Academia Sinica at Taipei
Linguistic Ability:
Chinese, English, French
