Professor at Law School of Wuhan University, Doctoral Supervisor
Personal Information
Xiang Yan, female, born in 1971. She is the Deputy President of the Human Rights Research Institute of Wuhan University, and the Executive Director of the Experimental Teaching Center of Law School of Wuhan University. She works with the Center for Protection of the Rights of Disadvantaged Citizens (now is “Legal Aid Center”) since 1998. Since 2013 she has been the the Director of the Legal Aid Center of Wuhan University. She has been teaching the history of foreign legal systems and western legal thought, and also teaching within the law school’s legal clinic.
·Academic Appointments:
1996-1998, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Wuhan University;
2004-2011, Associate Professor, School of Law, Wuhan University;
2011-2012, Professor, School of Law, Wuhan University;
Present, Professor&Doctoral Supervisor, School of Law, Wuhan University.
·Academic Training:
Sep,2001---Dec,2001 Human Right Short Course, Law Faculty, Nottingham University, United Kingdom, Funded by British Council;
April,2003 Clinician Training, Columbia University, United States, Funded by Ford Foundation;
Aug,2005---Jan,2006 Public Interest Law Fellowship, Law School, Columbia University, United States, Funded by Public Interest Law Institute;
Aug,2011---Jul,2012 Visiting Scholar, East Asia Legal Study, Harvard Law School, Funded by Fulbright Scholarship.
She has lectured at Columbia University, Harvard University, Northeastern University and the New York Bar Association. She also has conducted academic exchange activities in Poland, Hungary, South Africa, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Japan and other countries.
Educational Background
Bachelor of History, Wuhan University, China (1987-1991). Major: World History;
Master of History, Wuhan University, China (1993-1996). Major: World Ancient and Medieval History;
Ph.D. in Law, Wuhan University, China (1998-2004). Major: Constitutional Law.
Research Interest
Legal History, Foreign Constitutional Law, Public Interest Law
Reward:
Eighth High Education National Teaching Achievments Prize, Second Prize, 2018.
Selected Publications
1.”The influence and limit of American Local Autonomy on Sun Yat-sen”, Law Review, No.4, 2011
2.”British Judicial Review under the Parliamentary Sovereignty, a Perspective from Constitutional Reform Act, 2005” ,Qiushi Journal, vol. 6, 2010.
3.”The Survey Report on the Condition of Rights Protection of Children Left Behind: Taking the Rural Area of Hubei Province as An Example, Law Review”, 2009, vol. 6.
4.”The Present Condition and Challenge of Legal Clinical Education in China (in English) ”, Horitsu Jiho(Japan) 2007, vol. I.
5.”The Expression of Public Opinions and Its Procedural Input---Analysis on Amicus Curiae of American Public Interest Litigation from Chinese Law Theory”, Zhejiang Social Sciences, No.4, 2016.
6.”Amici Curiae: a Litigation Information Disclosure Mechanism”, Law and Social Development, No.2, 2017.
7.”Legal Aid and the Right to Development: The Compatibility of Logic, History and Reality”, Journal of Gansu Political Science and Law Institute, No.5, 2017. Reprinted in Information Center for Social Science of Renmin University of China (procedural law and judicial system), No.12, 2017.
Representative Works
1.CONSTITUTIONAL LAW INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS(Translation), 5th Edition, written by Allan Ides, Christopher N. May, The Commercial Press, 2014.
2.On British Parliamentary Sovereignty, Chinese Social Science Press, Oct, 2010
3.The Concept and Skills of Public Interest Litigation(editor-in-chief), Wuhan University Press, 2009.
4.Legal Institutions and the Sources of Law (Translation), written by Roger Shiner, Wuhan University Press, 2009.
Research Programs
1. Vertical Programs
Youth Project of P.R.C. Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Fund: From expression of public opinion to harmonious justice -- the research of amicus curiae in public interest litigation, 2011;
The Project of Key Research Base of P.R.C. Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Fund: Research on legal aid from the perspective of human rights protection, 2016;
National Key Project of Ministry of Science of Technology: Research on supporting technologies and equipment for accurate public legal services——Service Quality Evaluation Model and Intelligent Recommendation Technology for Legal Aid Lawyers(the 4th subsidiary project).
2. Horizontal Subject
The Concept and Skills of Public Interest Litigation, funded by Public Interest Law Institute of US(2007-2008);
Routine Machanism of Juveniles’ Rights Protection, funded by Central Committee of Chinese Youth Communist League(2009);
The Concept and Skills of Public Interest Litigation(II), funded by Public Interest Law Institute of US(2009);
The Public Interest Law Summer School, provided public interest law courses to Law students from over 20 Law schools and young lawyers from several NGOs, funded by Public Interest Law Institute of US(2011);
Philosophy and Practice of Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, funded by Public Interest Law Institute of US(2012);
Research on Quality Evaluation Standard of Legal Aid Cases of Hubei Province, funded by Department of Justice of Hubei Province(2017);
Research on the Working Mechanism and Achievement Transformation of Department of Mass Work, funded by Politics and Law Committee of Wuchang District(2018);
The Investigation of Social Governance of Wuhan, funded by Legal Society of Wuhan(2019).
3. Project of Wuhan University
The Construction of High-quality Curriculum of “Special Subject of Foreign Legal History”, funded by Graduate School of Wuhan University(2015);
The history of Modern Western Legal Thought, funded by Academic Affairs Division of Wuhan University(2010);
Research on the Reform of Bilingual Teaching of Foreign Legal History, funded by Academic Affairs Division of Wuhan University(2005).
Contact to me at:
Room 415, Law School, Wuhan University.
Phone: 86-27-6875-3668 (O)
Fax: 86-27-6875-2157
Email: xiangyan@whu.edu.cn
