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JI Weidong 季 卫东

Chair Professor

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季卫东,1957年出生于南昌市。1983年从北京大学法律学系毕业后留学日本,获得京都大学法学博士学位。1990年就任神户大学法学院副教授,1996年升任终身正教授到辞职归国为止。1991年至92年期间为美国斯坦福大学法学院访问学者。自2008年9月起担任上海交通大学法学院凯原讲席教授兼院长、教育部“长江学者”特聘教授至今。曾经被遴选为社会学国际协会法社会学研究委员会(RCSL)指定理事、历任日本法社会学会理事、亚洲太平洋论坛(淡路会议)研究委员会委员、国际高等研究所企画委员、东京财团比较制度研究所研究员、法社会学世界大会筹备委员会委员,现任神户大学名誉教授、中国经济体制改革研究会公共政策研究部学术委员、中国战略与管理研究会学术委员、上海市行政复议委员会委员、上海仲裁委员会委员、教育部法学教育指导委员会副主任、即将创刊并由剑桥大学出版社发行的英文杂志Asian Journal of Law and Society 主编等。

主要研究领域为法社会学和比较法学。主要著作有《超近代的法》(京都:密涅瓦书房,1999年。获日本法社会学会首届优秀著作奖)、《法治秩序的建构》(北京:中国政法大学出版社,1999年)、《现代中国的法制变迁》(东京:日本评论社,2001年)、《宪政新论》(北京:北京大学出版社,2002年;增补版,2005年。获钱端升法学研究成果奖著作类二等奖)、《法律程序的意义》(文库本,北京:中国法制出版社,2004年;增订版,2011年)、《中国审判的构图》(东京:有斐阁,2004年)、《正义思考的轨迹》(北京:法律出版社,2007年)、《秩序与浑沌的临界》(北京:法律出版社,2008年)、《法制的转轨》(杭州:浙江大学出版社,2009年)、《法治构图》(北京:法律出版社,2012年)、《大变局下的中国法治》(北京:北京大学出版社,2013年)等。

在《中国社会科学》上发表论文6篇,即《系统论方法在法学研究中的应 用及其局限》(1987年第1期)、《法律程序的意义》(1993年第1期)、《法律职业的定位——日本改造权力结构的实践》(1994年第2期)、《面 向二十一世纪的法与社会》(1996年第3期)和《合宪性审查与司法权的强化》(2002年第2期)以及《司法独立与程序的价值》(英文版2002年第2 期)。

JI Weidong was born in Nanchang City, China in 1957, graduated from the Department of Law, Peking University in 1983, and received his Dr. jur. from Kyoto University, Japan in 1993. He has been Dean and Chair Professor of KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, since 2008.

Prior to joining SJTU, he was a professor of Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Japan, and also worked as a visiting scholar, Stanford Law School, 1991-92; Board Member Co-opted of Research Committee on Sociology of Law, The International Sociological Association, 1994-2002; Member of Council of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, Japan, 1999-2011; Researcher and Member of Planning Committee, International Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan, 2006-2009; Fellow of the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution, the Tokyo Foundation, Japan, since 2007; Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Public Policy, China’s Research Committee Economic System Reform, China, since 2008; the Director of the Law and Society Center of SJTU, China since 2009; Vice Chairman of the Guiding Committee of Legal Education, the Ministry of Education, China since 2013; Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Law and Society (forthcoming in 2014, by Cambridge University Press).

He has studied legal culture, law and social change in Asia, focusing constitutional law, judicial reform as well as legal profession. He is the author of many articles and books about legal theory and practice related to China, including: A Hypermodern Law (Kyoto: Minerva Press, 1999), Constructing Rule of Law (Beijing: China University of Law and Political Sciences Press, 1999), Legal Change in Modern China (Tokyo: Japan Review Press, 2001), New Views on Constitutionalism (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2002, enlarged edition, 2005),The Composition of Chinese Judicial System (Tokyo: Yuhikaku Press, 2004), Orbit of Thinking Justice (Beijing: Law Press, 2007), At Critical Point of Order and Chaos (Beijing: Law Press, 2008), Switching the Institutions (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2009), Conceptualising the Rule of Law (Beijing: Law Press, 2012), Great Transformation and Rule of Law in China (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013), etc.

His European language articles are as following: (1) “The Sociology of Law in China: Overview and Trends” in Law and Society Review (U.S.A.) Vol.23 No.5(1990) pp.903-914; (2) “The Transmutation and Inner Contradiction of Legal Culture in China”, RECHTSTHEORIE Beiheft 12, Monismus oder Pluralismus der Rechtskulturen?, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991, pp.155-175; (3) “On Reflective Mechanism of Law Trial Implementation in China”, Hans G. Leserand & Tamotsu Isomura (eds.) Wege zum japanischen Recht, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1992, pp.753-769; (4) “Professionalita e Dimensione Internationale Dell'avvocatura in Cina” (Traduzione dall'inglese di Maria Cristina Reale), in Sociologia del diritto (Italy) n.2, 1993, pp.99-121; (5) “Power and People in Relational Network: Dutton on Chinese Social Control", in Law and Society Review (U.S.A.) Vol.29 No.3 (1996) pp.553-562; (6) “Legal Aid in the People’s Republic of China: Past, Present and Future”, in L. G. Trubeck & J. Cooper (eds.) Educating for Justice Around the World; Legal Education, Legal Practice and the Community (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1999) pp.93-117; (7) “Toward a Theoretical Model of Social Control in Relational Networks”, in A. Febbrajo and others (eds.) European Yearbook in the Sociology of Law; Social Processes and Patterns of Legal Control (Giuffre Publisher, 2000) pp.279-302; (8) “Judicial Independence and the Values of Procedure”, in Social Sciences in China (the PRC., English Version) Vol.23 No.2 (2002) pp.96-106; (9) “Space of Choice and Judicial Discretion in China: A Perspective of Comparative Legal Culture” and “The Discretionary Power of the Judge: Regional Report China”, in M.Storme & B. Hess (eds.) Discretionary Power of the Judge: Limits and Control (Kluwer, 2003) pp. 561-597; (10) “Legal Education in China: A Great Leap Forward of Professionalism”, Kobe University Law Review (international edition) Vol.39 (2006) pp.1-21; (11) “To Take the Law as the Public: The Diversification of Society and Legal Discourse in Contemporary China”, in Stephanie Balme & Michael W. Dowdle (eds.) Building Constitutionalism in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) pp. 125-140; (12) “Definite Uncertainties and the Grand Design of the Legal System in China”, in Sam Meller and others (eds.) The Law of the Future and the Future of Law (Vol.II, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2012) pp. 233-244; (13) “The Judicial Reform in China: the Status Quo and Future Directions”, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Volume 20 Issue 1 (2013) pp.185-220, etc.