Zhao Xuegang

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Ⅰ. Personal Data:

Name:        Zhao Xuegang

Sex:          Male

Place of Birth:  Hebei Province

Identity:       Associate Professor of the Law School, China University of Political Science and Law

E-mail:        xuegangzhao@sohu.com

Ⅱ. Education Background:

• Sep. 1991--Jul. 1996: Law School, Shandong University, LL.B;
• Sep. 1996--Jul. 1999: Law School, Shandong University, M.A;
• Sep. 1999--Jul. 2002: Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Ph.D;
• Sep. 2005--Jul. 2008: Religious Studies Institute, Philosophy Department of Sun Yat-sen University, Postdoctoral Research in the Speciality of Political Philosophy;

Ⅲ. Practicing and Working Experience：

• Jul. 1995--Nov.1995: Practicing as a clerk at a local court of Shandong Province.
• Sep.1998--Dec.1998: Practicing as a teacher (teaching History of Chinese Thought of Law) at Law School of Shandong University.
• Jul. 2002--Jul. 2005: Teaching in China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing) as Lecture and Associate Professor (Constitution of China, Philosophy of Law, and History of Western Legal Theory)；
• Nov. 2004: Attending Sino-EU Human Rights Dialogue as a Delegate of China (The Hague and Amsterdam, Holland);
• May—Jun. 2007: Teaching at the Philosophy Department, Sun Yat-sen University, Locke on Toleration, and Hobbes on Faith and Heresy, for Master and Doctoral Candidates;
• Sep. 2008--up to Now: Teaching at China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing) as Associate Professor (Constitution of China, Philosophy of Law, and History of Western Legal Theory).

Ⅳ. Major Academic Achievements and Publications：

Books:

• Several volumes of Locke’s Works and Scholarly Books (edited and translated by me) will be published by Huaxia Press House (Beijing) from 2013;
• On Philosophical Foundation of Human Rights (200,000 words), Ph.D dissertation, and will be published by Social Sciences Academic Press(Beijing);
• Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession (by Michael. P. Schutt), translated from English, and will be published by Central Compilation and Translation Press (Beijing) in Jen. 2013;
• The Constitution of 1787 (by Anastaplo, 310,000 words), translated from English, and published by East China Normal University Press (Shanghai) in March. 2012;
• The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy (by Nino, 200,000 words), translated from English, and published by Law Press (Beijing) in Apr. 2009;
• Hobbes on Faith and Heresy (Hobbes’ Appendix to Leviathan) (175,000 words), translated from English, revised by Latin, and published by Huaxia Press House (Beijing) in Feb. 2008;
• A New Birth of Freedom (550,000 words, reviser), Harry V. Jaffa, published by East China Normal University Press (Shanghai) in Apr. 2008;
• Crisis of The House Divided (350,000 words, reviser), Harry V. Jaffa, published by East China Normal University Press (Shanghai) in Sep. 2007.

Articles:

• Several articles of the U. S. Constitution (especially of the First Amendment), and of philosophy of religion on Hobbes and Locke published by various publications (translated from English)；
• The First Amendment of the U.S Constitution and The Declaratio De Libertate Religiosa: Dignitatis Humanae (DH) (35,000 words), presented to Seminar on Second Vatican Council (Beijing, Guangzhou), 2012, 6, 7;
• Constitution as Political Will (10,000 words), The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies (Hong Kong), 2011, Winter;
• Modernity of Contemporary Legal Theories Debates: Its Critics (10,000 words), Law and Democracy Review, 2011, 10;
• Hobbes on Heresy (13,000words), The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies (Hong Kong), 2010, Autumn;
• On Locke’s View of Natural Law and His Philosophy of Religion (15,000 words), Journal of The Spirit of the Laws, 2009, 3;
•  Jurist in Pursuit of Word of God — On John C. H. Wu (7,000 words), China Book Review, 2008, 2;
• On Concepts of Right to Life and Right to Existence (10,000 words), Journal of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2004, 6;
• How to Justify the Concept of Human Rights? — Ethics of Kant Laying A Foundation for the Concept of Human Rights (Illustrated by Right to Life) (12,000 words), Tribune of Political Science and Law, 2004, 5;
• On Abolishment of Capital Punishment in China — from the Perspective of Right to Life (25,000 words), Global Law Review, 2004, Fall;
• Criticism of Utilitarian View of Human Rights (40,000 words), Human Rights, 2003, vol. 2;
• On Essence of Law from Epistemological Angle (35,000 words), Journal of Shandong University, 2000, 1; 2000, 3;
• On Main Functions of Constitution (11,000 words), Journal of Shandong University (1998).
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Besides above there are several chapters of translations about human rights, constitution, mass media law, and ethics of lawyer having been published in various books and journals.

Ⅵ．Language Ability:

English: skilled in reading, writing, listening and speaking;

Latin:  medium level; have studied for two years; can read simple text;

Ancient Greece: medium level; have studied for two years; can read simple text.