Jue Jiang

Li Ka Shing Professor of Practice 2017-18

Old Chancellor Day Hall

3644 Peel Street

Room 23

Montreal Quebec

Canada H3A 1W9

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Dr Jiang is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Practice at Faculty of Law of McGill University for the year 2017-18. She is also a visiting scholar (honorary) at the Centre for Rights and Justice at Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She studied law at Southwest University of Political Science and Law (LLB) in Chongqing, China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (LLM & PhD). She assumed visiting scholar positions at Griffith University in Australia and the University of Cologne in Germany.

Her research interestliesmainly in the area of criminal justice, human rights, civil society, and judicial system in China. Her publications and ongoing research draw upon wrongful conviction death penalty cases and Chinese civil society’s advocacy, the role of Chinese civil society and judicial system in combatting domestic violence, and women’s rights in China.

Dr Jiang has been working closely with various NGOs as well as civil society groups, both domestic and international ever since she was conducting her doctoral research.After being awarded a PhD degree, she has worked at two human rights NGOs successively.

She will teach two courses on law and human rights in China at McGill University.

Recent publications:

Books:

  • Criminal Reconciliation (xingshihejie) in Contemporary China: An Empirical and Analytical Enquiry, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Journal articles:

  • ‘Legal and Political Rights Advocacy in Wrongful Conviction Death Penalty Cases in China: A Study of the Leping Case of Injustice,’ Columbia Journal of Asian Law, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (Spring 2016), pp. 96-145.
  • ‘Buying “Leniency,” Selling “justice”? -- A Critical Discussion of “Criminal Reconciliation” (xingshihejie) Under China’s Revised Criminal Procedural Law,’ The Journal of Comparative Law (Vol.10 Issue 2) 2015, pp. 189-217.
  • ‘應該怎樣對待殺害施虐者的長期受虐者？——由李彥案談起[How Should We DealWith the Long-term Victim of Violence Who Kills Its Inflictor -- A Discussion Starting from The Case of Li Yan],’ in Gender Studies: News and Views 24 (June 2013), pp. 13-15 (in Chinese).

Book chapters:

  • ‘Buying “Leniency,” Selling “justice”? -- A Critical Discussion of “Criminal Reconciliation” (xingshihejie) Under China’s Revised Criminal Procedural Law,’ in Fu Hualing and Michael Palmer (ed.), Mediation in Contemporary China: Continuity and Change, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publications 2017.
  • With Joshua Rosenzweig, Flora Sapio, Teng Biao and Eva Pils, ‘The 2012 Revision of the PRC Criminal Procedure Law: Comments on Selected Aspects,’ in Mike McConville and Eva Pils (ed.), Criminal Justice in China: Comparative Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishing 2013.

Book reviews:

  • ‘Victim–Offender Reconciliation in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan,’ The China Quarterly,Volume 229/March 2017, pp. 235-236.

Media exposure:

  • Duihua Human Rights Journal, ‘Not Adding Up: Criminal Reconciliation,’ May 2012 at