What Does Law-Based Governance Mean When It Isn’t Only About Law?
Grassroots Governance in Xi-Era China
Date & Time: October 29, 2026 (Thursday) 11:00-12:00
Venue: Room 901, 9/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English
(In-person Event)
Speaker:
Susan Trevaskes is a professor of Chinese Studies at Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on Chinese criminal justice, social governance and law. This research has resulted in over 70 publications including the first books in English on criminal courts in contemporary China (2007), policing serious crime in China (2010) and China’s death penalty reforms (2012). Her work has been published in Chinese Studies journals including The China Journal, The China Quarterly and Modern China. Her work also includes collaborative research resulting in the co-editing of volumes relating to law and justice including The Politics of Law and Stability in China (2014), Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China (2016), Justice: the China Experience (2017), and Law and the Party in China: Ideology and Organisation (2020). She is currently working on two Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, one on law and morality in China and one on social governance and the law in China.
Moderator:
Sida Liu, Professor of Law and Sociology and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
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