Zhao Jianwen, research fellow and head of the Department of International Human Rights Law, CASS Institute of International Law; professor and doctoral supervisor, CASS Graduate School; member of Executive Council, China Society of International Law; council member, China Society of Private International Law; council member, Research Committee of International Economic Law, China Law Society.

      Education and Work Experience

Bachelor of Law, Law Faculty of Zhengzhou University (1982);

Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor, Law Faculty of Zhengzhou University (1982-2004);

Ph.D. in Law, China University of Political Science and Law (2004);

Research Fellow, CASS Institute of International Law (2008-now)

      Research Areas

Basic theories of international law; theory and practice of Chinese international law; international human rights law and humanitarian law; international law of treaties, the law of the sea; international health law, international responsibilities and mechanisms for the resolution of international conflicts.

      Research Projects

Professor Zhao Jianwen has led over 10 research projects, including 'Establishing a New International Political and Economic Order Based on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence', a National Social Sciences Fund project, in 2002 and 'Studies on the Content and the Exercise of People's Right to Self-determination', a key project of CASS.

      Main Publications

Professor Zhao Jianwen has published 6 books and over 50 articles in academic journals, including 11 articles published in Chinese Journal of Law.

1.New Theory of International Law, editor-in-chief, Law Press China, 2000;

2.International Law, editor-in-chief, Zhengzhou University Press, 2010;

3.International Law and International Community, (1990) 4 Journal of Zhengzhou University;

4.Natural Law Characteristics of Mozi Legal Thoughts, (1995) 2 Modern Law Science;

5.Contemporary International Law and State Sovereignty, (1999) 5 Journal of Zhengzhou University;

6.Evolution of Theories on the Nature and Status of State Sovereignty, (2000) 6 Journal of Zhengzhou University;

7.On the Relationship between the Effect of International Law and That of Constitutional Law: from the Perspective of ICCPR, (2004) 6 Present-day Law Science;

8.The Essence, Value and Trend of Development of State Immunity, (2005) 6 Jurists;

9.On the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, China Social Sciences Press, 1996;

10.The Creative Application of the Principles of Co-existence by Deng Xiaoping, (1996) 6 Journal of Zhengzhou University;

11.Deng Xiaoping's Strategic Thoughts on the Establishment of a New International Order, (1995) 6 Journal of Zhengzhou University;

12.Mozi's International Law Idea of 'Universal Love and Non-Aggression' and Its Contemporary Value, (1996) 2 CASS Journal of Law;

13.Zhou Enlai's Thought on the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, (1998) 3 CASS Journal of Law;

14.From the Tradition of 'Harmonious and Peaceful Co-Existence among Nations' to the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, (2005) 1 Journal of the Party School of CPC Tianjin Municipal Party Committee;

15.The Derogation Clauses in Human Rights Conventions, (1996) 5 Jurists;

16.The Cornerstone of international Human Rights Law, (1999) 3 CASS Journal of Law;

17.Reservations and Interpretative Declarations of ICCPR, (2004) 5 CASS Journal of Law;

18.The Provisions on the Right to Fair Trial in Article 14 of the ICCPR, (2005) 5 CASS Journal of Law;

19.Provisions on the Minimum Safeguards for the Rights of the Accused in ICCPR, (2006) 3 CASS Journal of Law;

20.The Nature of the Obligations of State Parties in ICCPR, in Chen Su (ed.), Collected Papers in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Establishment of CASS Law Institute, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2008;

21.The Opinions of Human rights Committee on the Right to Fair Trial and Their Implications to the Judicial Reform in China, in Li Lin (ed.), Ruling the Country by Law and Deepening the Reform of the Judicial System, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2008;

22.The Essence, Nature, and Value of People's Right to Self-Determination, in China Yearbook of International Law (2006), World Knowledge Publishing House, 2007;

23.Scope of Subjects of People's Right to Self-Determination, (2008) 2 CASS Journal of Law;

24.Internal and External Aspects of People's Right to Self-determination, in Sun Shiyan (ed.), Chinese International Law Review, vol. 2, Chinese People's Public Security University Press, 2008;

25.Relationship between People's Right to Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity, (2009) 6 CASS Journal of Law;

26.The Concept of Rule of Law as Commonly Understood by the International Community, in Li Lin (ed.), Fully Implementing the Basic Policy of Ruling the Country by Law, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2009;

27.The Concept of the Civil Society and Its Status and Role in the Development of International and Domestic Rule of Law, in Li Lin (ed.), The Development of the Rule of Law and Legal Studies in China during the 60 Years since the Establishment of the People's Republic of China, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2010;

28.The Relationship between Democracy, the Rule of Law under International Human Rights Law and Human Rights and the Perfection of China's Legal System, in Li Lin (ed.), Ruling the Country by Law and the Formation of the Legal System, China Legal System Publishing House, 2010;

29.Reservations to Treaties, in Yu Mincai (ed.), A Textbook on International Law, Zhongxin Publishing House, 2003;

30.The Formulation of the Clauses on the Application of Treaties in Chinese Law, in Huang Dongli (ed.), Chinese International Law Review, vol.3, Chinese People's Public Security University Press, 2009;

31.Status of International Treaties in Chinese Legal System, in (2010) 6 Chinese Journal of Law;

32.Convention on the Law of the Sea and Modernization in China, in Xin Yulin (ed.), Bulletin on the Studies in Chinese Border Areas, Xinjiang People's Publishing House, 1995;

33.Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Principle of Limited Immunity, (1996) 2 Political Science and Law;

34.Definition and Development of State Jurisdiction in the Convention on the Law of the Sea, (1996) 2 China Legal Science;

35.Development of the Neutrality Law by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, (1997) 4 CASS Journal of Law;

36.UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and China's Established Rights in the South China Sea, (2003) 2 CASS Journal of Law;

37.Interpretative Declaration Made by the Convention on the Law of the Sea on the right of Innocent Passage of Warships Through the Territorial Sea, (2005) 2 China Oceans Law Review;

38.The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the Legal Effect of Its Implementation Guideline, (2010) 4 Journal of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law;

39.Implementing the Obligations under the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and Catching Up with the International Community in Tobacco Control, in Tobacco Control and China's Future, Economic Daily Publishing House, 2010;

40.State Responsibilities under International Law: State Responsibilities for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Doctoral Thesis, China University of Political Science and Law; 2004;

41.International Responsibilities for Cross-Border Transfer of Harmful Waste, (1997) 6 China Legal Science;

42.Important Achievements in the Codification and Gradual Development of the Law on State Responsibilities, in China Yearbook of International Law: 2004, Law Press China, 2005;

43.Japan's State Responsibility Relating to the Issue of the Yasukuni Shrine, in Li Lin (ed.), Cross-Border Understanding of Law: Studies on Frontier Issues of the Rule of Law in China and Japan, Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House. 2008;

44.Studies on the Rules on the Resolution of Conflicts of Law in Guarantee Transactions under Studies in the Rules on the Conflicts of Law in Guaranteed Transaction under UNCITRAL, in Collected Papers from the 2007 Cross-Straight Seminar on Private International Law, Angle Publishing Co., Ltd. (2005).

45.Law Office Management by Hildebrandt, Bradford W., translator, Henan University Press, 1991;

46.Self-Executing International Treaties, (1991) 6 Translations in Law;

47.A History of American Law, co-translator, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2007.