In the past two year, sets of judicial reform inititives have been undertaken within the Chinese judicial system with aims of increasing judicial independance and curbing judicial corruption. Certainly, this ongoing reform will  have a huge impact on the role and functions that Chinese judicary will perform in the future. But whether or not this reforms will lead to the expected goals remains very uncertain.

Xixin WANG is Vice-Dean and Professor of Law, and Founding Director of the Center for Public Participation Studies and Support, at Peking University Law School in Beijing, China.  Professor Wang received his Bachelor’s degree of law from the South Central Institute of Political Science and Law in 1990 and his LL.D from Peking University Law School in 1999.  From 1998-1999, he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School, and since August 2003 has been a Fellow of the China Law Center at Yale Law School.  Professor Wang has been deeply involved in China’s administrative law reforms for many years.  Since 1999, he has served as a working member of the China Administrative Legislation Research Group - an academic team advising the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s Legal Affairs Working Commission on administrative law reforms and since 2001 has focused especially on the drafting of an Administrative Procedure Act. Professor Wang was a Visiting Scholar of Yale Law School in 2001. He was a Bok International Visiting Professor at UPenn School of Law in 2013 and Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2014. Professor Wang’s research fields cover constitutional review, local governance, administrative rulemaking, open government information, and public participation. Professor Wang is also recognized as a public intellectual, serving as a commentator for China Legal Daily since 2006 and for China Central Television (CCTV) since 2008.  He is the author of three well recognized books on administrative procedure, public participation, and open government information, and some 60 journal articles published in China and the United States.

In April 2015, Professor Wang was appointed by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee Associate Chief Judge of the Administrative Law Division of the Supreme People’s Court of China.

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