Xianming Xu

I. Personal Details    

Name:Xianming Xu

Gender: Male

Education：Doctor of Law

Political outlook：Member of the Chinese Communist Party

Research Interests (Professional Fields): Modern Chinese Legal Thought, Principles of the Rule of Law, Frontier Issues in Legal Philosophy, Human Rights Theory, etc

II. Education Background  

In 1978, he was admitted to the Law Department of Jilin University and obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in law.

In 1999, he received his Juris Doctor degree from Wuhan University.

From 1988 to 1989, 1997 and 1998, he went to Japan and the United States for further study.

III. Academic and Administrative Posts  

Vice President of China Law Society, President of China Jurisprudence Research Association, China President of the International Association for Legal Philosophy and Social Philosophy, Deputy Director of the Law Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Chinese Chairman of the Sino-US Joint Committee on Legal Education, and Adjunct Professor of Peking University and the Party School of the Central Committee. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, a member of the Law Committee of the National People's Congress, a specially invited consultant of the Supreme People's Court, a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the chief expert of the Shandong Provincial Legal Research Base.

IV. Academic Achievements (Partial)

He has published more than 10 academic works such as "Exploration of the People's Constitutional Thought" and "General Theory of Citizens' Rights and Obligations", and edited the large-scale legal book series "Jurisprudence Library". He has published more than 100 academic articles. Among them, "Theory of the Right to Life", "System and Classification of Human Rights", "Ethics and Supervision of Justice" and other articles have been translated into many languages.

V. Scientific research projects

He has conducted more than 20 national and international cooperation projects, such as research on countermeasures to protect farmers' rights and interests in the process of China's rule of law (a major project of the National Social Science Fund). (Limited pages are too numerous to list them all)