Li Honglei, male, born in 1976, a native of Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province; deputy director of CASS Law Institute and head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of CASS Law Institute; a research fellow and supervisor of post-doctoral researcher at CASS Law Institute; chief researcher of the CASS Innovation Project “Innovations in Administrative Rule of Law”; Professor and doctoral supervisor, Graduate School of University of CASS; and deputy director of CASS Center for Cultural Law Studies.

Main research fields: administrative legal dogmatics; comparative administrative law; administrative organic law and local institutions; and government regulation.

Main part-time positions: deputy secretary-general of the Executive Council, vice chairman of the Special Committee on Government Regulation and vice chairman of the Special Committee on Administrative Law Cases of the Administrative Law Research Committee of China Law Society; member of the Executive Council of the Internet and Information Law Research Committee of China Law Society; vice chairman of the Legal Affairs Commission of Agriculture and Agricultural Law Research Committee of China Law Society; member of the Expert Steering Group on Education Law Enforcement Reform of the Ministry of Education; member of the Expert Advisory Group on Information Disclosure of the General Office of the State Council; member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of Beijing Municipality; member of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of Dongcheng District of Beijing Municipality; specially invited supervisor of the Supervision Committee of Chaoyan District, Beijing Municipality; and a legislative advisory of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Shenzhen Municipality, Guangdong Province.

Other current or previous part-time positions: visiting professor at Yamaguchi University (Japan); part-time professor, East China University of Political Science and Law; research fellow, Soft Law Research Center of the Law School of Peking University; specially-invited research fellow at Comparative Administrative Law Institute, research fellow at Administrative Law Institute, and research fellow at the Customs and Foreign Exchange Law Research Center of Renmin University of China; research fellow at the State Supervision and Anti-Corruption Research Center, the Administrative System Reform and Administrative Organic Law Research Center, and the Social Administration Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law; Research fellow at Law-based Government and Local Institutions Research Center of Minzu University of China; research fellow at the Food Safety Law Research Center of China Law Society; and member of the Academic Commission of Digital Economy and Legal Innovation Research Center of China University of International Business and Economics.

Educational Background and Work Experiences

July 2003 – now: assistant research fellow, associate research fellow, research fellow and head of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Department of CASS Law Institute;

Apr. 2019 – Mar. 2020: Deputy Chief, Experts and Academic Titles Division of the Personnel Bureau of CASS;

Aug. 2010 – June 2011: visiting scholar at East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA;

Aug. 2009 – July 2010: Edwards Fellow at the Law School of Columbia University, USA;

Feb. – July, 2009: visiting scholar at Emory University, USA;

Feb. – May, 2007: visiting scholar at London School of Economics and Political Science;

Oct. – Dec., 2006: participated in the investigation and research work organized by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee for the Drafting the Report of the 17th National Congress of CPC;

June 2004–May, 2005:full-time staff member of the State Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, participated in the research and consultation work for the formulation or revision of a number of laws, including the Civil Servant Law, the Supervision Law, the Anti-Secession Law, and the Organization Law for Local People's Congresses at All Levels and Local People's Governments at All Levels;

2004 – 2007: (on-the-job) post-doctoral researcher on applied economics, CASS;

Sept. 2000 – July 2003: doctoral candidate in constitutional and administrative law, Law School of Peking University; editor of Peking University Law Review; and executive editor of Administrative Law Review (vol.6);

Sept. – Nov., 2002: assistant professor, Macau University of Science and Technology;

Sept. 1997– July 2000: graduate student, Graduate School of China University of Political Science and Law;

Apr. – Aug., 1999: intern at the Supreme People’s Court, assisted in the handling of administrative appeal cases;

Sept. 1993 – July 1997: undergraduate student, China University of Political Science and Law.

Email: hlli@cass.org.cn