Professor

Doctorate Supervisor
Chairman of China Environmental and Natural Resources Law Society
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry of Wuhan University (1963-1968)
Visiting Scholar of Oregon University(1988)
Visiting Scholar of University of Washington (1993)
Email: caishouq@public.wh.hb.cn


Areas of Interest

• Chinese Environmental Law
• Comparative Environmental Law
• Water Law and River Basin Management Law
• Environmental Policy
• Environmental Justice

Brief Biographical Detail

Prof. Cai was born in Dong’an County in Hunan Province in August 1944. He studied at the Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University from 1963 to 1968.Then he engaged in the environmental protection technical work and the work of news coverage at the Wuchang Shipyard from 1968 to1979. He has been working as a teacher at Wuhan University since 1980. He studied abroad at the Oregon University Law School in 1988 and Washington University Law School in 1993. Currently he is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Law School of Wuhan University. He is also Chairman of the Chinese Association of Environment and Resources Law. He has served as a member of the 2n~d6th Boards of the China Society of Law, as well as Deputy Director and Director of RIEL. He is also the EIA expert of State Environmental Protection Administration and the member of experts committees of China Law Counsel Center. In 2006, he was hired as the report expert of “hundreds of sessions gave by the jurist” organized by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Political and legislative affairs committee of the CPC central committee and the China Law Society. He also was hired as one of the lecturers teaching higher - level cadres by the Department of Justice and the China Law Society during the 5th five-year law popularization. Prof. Cai has long been engaged in the teaching and research of environmental and resources law, international environmental and resources law, and sustainable development law and policy. He has participated in the drafting of more than 10 environmental laws and regulations, such as the Environmental Protection Law. In addition, he has led and completed more than 40 research projects, including key projects of “the 6th Five-Year Program”, “the 8th Five-Year Program”, “the 9th Five-Year Program” of the China Social Sciences Foundation, the research program of the World Bank and Asian banks. So far, he has published more than 200 articles and 30 books and textbooks. He is the academic leader of one of the first National Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences ratified by the Ministry of Education. He is the young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contribution of Hubei province and enjoys the special allowance of State Council Government. He repeatedly won the Social Science and Law Excellence Productions of Wuhan country, Hubei province and the Department of Justice. The State Environmental Protection Agency granted him the honorary title of “The Outstanding Contributor of the Environmental Protection” in 2000. Prof. Cai loves the career of environmental protection and the legal education. He has been insisted on working in the front-line of teaching and scientific research for more than thirty years. He is the main advocator and organizer of establishing the Chinese Association of Environment and Resources Law. By the common efforts of him and his colleagues, the RIEL started from scratch. Now, it is the earliest Institute of environmental law in China and the largest in Asia. It is also the largest doctoral program of environmental law in China and one of the first National Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences ratified by the Ministry of Education.

Publications
The representative publications of Prof. Cai are as follows : On the Environmental Policy in china, On the environmental diplomacy, The Study on the Legal Issues of Environmental Policy , Contemporary Marine Environmental and Resources law, The Legal Study on the EU Environmental Policy, Sustainable development and the Construction of Environmental Legal System, International Environmental Law, Environmental and Resources law, The Regulation Theory ─ Rethought and Supplement to the Mainstream Jurisprudence ,The Study on the legal Issues of Ecological Security and ,Environment and Trade, the Ethics and Legislation of Rivers, Environmental Policy.