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Li Xueyao

Li Xueyao, born in 1977 in Ruian City, Zhejiang Province. He is currently a professor at the Kaiyuan Law School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the director of the Law and Cognitive Science Research Center, the executive director of the Education Legislation and Advisory Service Base of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the vice chairman of the Shanghai Law Society's Law Sociology Research Society, and the National Ten Thousand Peoples Program Outstanding talents), "New Century Excellent Talents" of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Shuguang Optics. His research interests include jurisprudence, sociology of law, and public law. Specific areas include research in law and cognitive sciences, judicial reform, the legal profession, and local legislation.
He graduated from Zhejiang University in 2005 with a doctorate degree in law (the dissertation was nominated for one hundred outstanding doctoral dissertations by the Ministry of Education); from 2006 to 2009 he was engaged in postdoctoral research in the direction of human rights at China University of Political Science and Law. In 2006, he was promoted to associate professor; in 2008, he worked in the Supreme People's Court for further studies; from 2009 to 2010, he was assistant to the dean of Kaiyuan Law School of Shanghai Jiaotong University; in 2010 he was awarded the title of Shanghai Shuguang; in 2011 he was promoted to be a doctoral supervisor Promoted to professor in 2012; served as the dean and chair professor of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics from 2014 to 2016. Visited Yale University (2010-2011), Cambridge University (2009) and New York University (2014).
He has published more than twenty academic papers in authoritative academic journals at home and abroad, such as China Social Sciences, Fordham Law Review, Journal of Legal Education, Legal Studies, Chinese Law, and Chinese and Foreign Law. He has been invited to give special academic reports at foreign universities such as Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Bonn University and New York University. Representative works include "The Impact of Cognitive Fluency on Judicial Adjudication", "Legal Professionalism", "Legal Career Blueprint in Judicial Reform (1998-2008)", "The Learning Process of Globalization: How Chinese Law Firms Survived the Financial Crisis "," The Structural Balance of Legal Development ", and" Amorality: The Dilemma of Modern Legal Professional Ethics. " His academic achievements have won the Shanghai Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award several times. He has presided over more than 20 vertical and horizontal projects such as key projects of the National Social Science Fund, projects commissioned by the Central Political and Law Commission, and projects commissioned by the Ministry of Education.