Chen Zexian, male, a native of Gutian County, Fujian Province. Director of CASS Institute of International Law; deputy director of CASS Centre for Human Rights Studies; person in charge of key disciplines in criminal law science of CASS; professor and Ph.D. supervisor, CASS Graduate School; council member, China Law Society; consultant, Beijing Law Society; vice chairman, Criminal Law Research Committee of China Law Society; member of executive council, China Society of International Law; vice chairman, Chinese Branch of International Association of Penal Law; member of Expert Advisory Committee of Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Education and Work Experience
July 1982, graduated from, Law Faculty of Southwest University of Political Science and Law; August 1982-now: research fellow, CASS Law Institute and CASS Institute of International Law;
August 1987-August 1988: visiting scholar, UC Berkeley;
1994-1997: member of the Criminal Law Revision Group, Commission of Legislative Affairs of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress;
1996: receiver of special allowance for expert with outstanding contribution, issued by the State Council;
Sept.1999-Sept. 2000 Vice-President, the People's Procuratorate of Western District of Beijing Municipality;
Sept. 2000-Sept. 2001 Fulbright Research Fellow, Colombian University and Yale University;
Research Areas
Criminal Law, international law. Key research areas: Chinese criminal law, economic criminal law, international criminal law, international human rights law
Main Publications
Monographs
UN Convention against Corruption and the Improvement of China's Criminal Legal System (2010);
Contemporary Chinese Law (2009);
Ratification and Implementation of ICCPR (2008);
Definition of Crime and the Rule of Criminal Law (2008);
Defence in Capital Cases (2006);
Exploration on the Rule of Criminal Law (2003);
New Theory of Economic Criminal Law (2001);
Determination and Punishment of Unit Crimes in the New Criminal Law (1997);
Countermeasures against Drug-related Crimes (1992);
Introduction to the Criminal Law (1985);
Articles
The Principle of Legally Prescribed Punishment for Specific Crimes: Legislative Defects and Judicial Misunderstandings (2006);
Ratification of the ICCPR and Challenges Faced by the Reform of the Chinese Criminal Legal System (2005);
The System of Sheltering and Rehabilitation and Its Reform (2004);
Nature of the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (2003);
Restricted Application of the Death Penalty (2002); Judicial Independence and Supervision over Power (2001);
The System of Rehabilitation-through-Labour and Its Reform (2000);
Reform of the Judicial System and Prevention and Punishment of Judicial Corruption (1998);
The Principle of Legally Prescribed Punishment for a Specific Crime in the Revision of the Criminal Law (1996);
Development of the Criminal Legal System and the Protection of Civil Rights (1995);
Principle of Criminal Law Regulation of the Market Economy (1994);
Basic Principle of Comprehensive Treatment of Social Security Issues (1992);
Legislative Principle for the Criminalization of Economic Violations of Law (1989).
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E-mail: chen_zexian@hotmail.com