About this journal

Aims and scope

In the past three decades, following its rapid economic development, China is fast becoming one of the world’s most prosperous countries. At the same time, China has tried to construct a state administered under the rule of law. As a result of this process, Chinese and foreign scholars have made increased efforts to understand the Chinese state and Chinese society and their relationship to contemporary Chinese law. But until now these efforts have not made Chinese law sufficiently accessible to the outside world. The aim of the Peking University Law Journal is to provide a window on Chinese law for anyone interested in the continuing development of Chinese law and society. In pursuing this aim the Journal publishes original English-language articles written by Chinese and foreign scholars on Chinese legal traditions, and the rule of law in Chinese society. It also publishes original English-language articles which engage comparatively with Chinese law and the rule of law in China.

Peer Review Integrity
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is via email to [email protected]

Journal metrics

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Citation metrics

  • 0.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.000 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.000 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Li Guo, Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Senior Editor

Ruoying Chen, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Yifeng Cheng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Wei Gao, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Honghai Li, Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Chun Peng, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Su Jiang, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Tian Yan, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Qi Yu, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Yongle Zhang, Associate Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Yilu Zuo, Assistant Professor, Peking University Law School, China

Advisory Board

Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School, USA

Ginmaria Ajani, Professor, Department of Law, University of Torino, Italy

William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Director of East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, USA

Mads Andenaes, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Weijen Chang, Professor Emeritus, Institute of History and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, China

Albert H.Y. Chen, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

Donald C. Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor of Law, School of Law, George Washington University, USA

Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for East Asian Studies, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Chair Professor of Law, School of Law, UC Berkeley, USA

Paul Gewirtz, Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of China Center, Yale Law School, USA

Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and Professor of Political Science, Chicago Law School, USA

Victor P. Goldberg, Jerome L. Greene Professor Emeritus of Transactional Law, Columbia Law School, USA

George A. Hay, Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Cornell Law School, USA

Eric Hilgendorf, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Wurzburg, Germany

James B. Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts, School of Law, New York University, USA

David T. Johnson, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, USA

David W. Kennedy, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA

Benjamin Liebman, Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and Director of Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School, USA

Bing Ling, Professor of Chinese Law, School of Law, Sydney University, Australia

Sida Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada

Joseph Jude Norton, James L. Walsh Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institutions and Professor of Law, School of Law, Southern Methodist University, USA

Joseph Raz, Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, USA

Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Bernd Schünemann, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany

Ulrich Sieber, Director and Professor, Max Plank Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany

Daniel F. Spulber, Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business, School of Law, Northwestern University, USA

Weiming Tu, Director and Professor, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, China

Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, School of Law, New York University, USA

Alex Wang, Professor of Law, School of Law, UCLA, USA

Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University, USA

Thomas Weigend, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cologne, Germany

XingzhongYu, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law, Cornell Law School, USA

Taisu Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School, USA

Xueguang Zhou, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and FSI Senior Senior Fellow, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, USA

Suli Zhu, Professor of Law, School of Law, Peking University, China

Franklin E. Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, School of Law, UC Berkeley, USA

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