Associate Professor
Email: liuhan@tsinghua.edu.cn
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
J.S.D., Yale Law School, 2012
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2009
LL.M., Peking University, 2008
LL.B., Peking University, 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law, 2017-Now
Director of International Affairs, Tsinghua University School of Law, 2014-2017
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law, 2013-2017
Research Assistant, Yale Law School, 2009-2010
SOCIAL WORK
International Society of Public Law
China Law Society
Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies
Hong Kong and Macau Basic Law Association (Deputy Secretary-General)
Beijing Government Administrative Rehearing Committee
China Cyber and Information Law Association (Board Member)
Beijing Association of Real Estate Law (Board Member)
Global Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies at University of Exeter
Fellow, CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Internet Law
HONORS AND AWARDS
Tsinghua University Award for “Teaching Excellence of Young Teachers” (2017)
Yuecheng Award for Law Teaching (2014)
US-China Education Trust Fellowship for “Chinese Leaders in American Studies” (2014)
Tsinghua University Award for “Meritorious Staff in International Affairs” (2014)
Yale Law School Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2012)
Peking University Graduate Students “Academic Talents” (2008)
SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A. in English
1. Two Faces of Self-Determination in Political Divorce, 10 Vienna J. Int’l Const. L. 4 (2016);
2. Towards Constitutional Re-Enlightenment: Teaching American Constitutional Law in China, 9 Tsinghua China L. Rev. 63 (2016);
3. The Symbolic and the Functional, in the Constitution of China (Daniel Bell & Yongle Zhang eds., Princeton University Press, 2017), forthcoming;
4. Carl Schmitt Redux: Law and the Political in Contemporary Comparative Constitutionalism, in Reorienting the Political 121-136 (Carl K. Y. Shaw & Marchal Kai eds., Lexington Books, 2017).
B. in Chinese
1. Equality, Empathy, and Imagining Others: The Moral-Sentimental Foundation of Universal Human Rights, 11 Tsinghua Univ. L. J. 164 (2017).
2. DNS, Cyber-Sovereignty, and Internet Governance, 26 Peking Univ. L. J. 3 (2016).
3. National Unity in Regional Democratization of Hong Kong: Comparative Studies on States in Democratic Transition, 6 Global L. Rev. 56 (2015).
4. The Chinese Path of Constitutional Law, 3 China L. Rev. 196 (2015).
5. Globalization of Constitutional Law: Origins, Trends, and Problems, 2 China L. Sci. 108 (2015).
6. American Constitutional Exceptionalism: Institutions, Doctrines, and Culture, 2 J. Comp. L. 20 (2014).
7. Judicial Review of Presidential Power and Executive Actions: Rereading Marbury v. Madison, 26 Peking Univ. L. J. 3 (2014).
8. An Exception to Globalization of Law: The Foreign Law Debate in America, 8 Tsinghua Univ. L. J. 164 (2014).
9. Privacy, Freedom of Speech, and Chinese Internet Culture: The Predicament of Human Flesh Search Engine Regulation, 23 Peking Univ. L. J. 4 (2011).
10. Republican Regime and National Unity: The Northern Secessionist Movement in Early American Constitutionalism, 6 Global L. Rev. 110(2011).
11. The Lincolnian Moment: Constitution, Secession, and the Basis of American National Unity, 12 Peking Univ. L. Rev. 2 (2011).
12. The Second Revolution, Perpetual Revolution, and the Imagination of the American Constitutional Stability,” 1 Pol. & L. Rev. 127 (2010).
C. Translations
1. Jules Coleman, Law and Philosophy, in Extraordinary Times, Peking University Press, 2016.
2. Paul Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2015, with Tian Li.
3. Lord Hope of Craighead, Mixed Legal Systems in the Common Law World, in Tsinghua Univ. L. J., 2012/6.
