Dr. Xiaohong Yu
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University
Professional Experience
2010-present Lecture, Associate Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University
2009-2010 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Visiting Faculty, Department of Government, Harvard University
EDUCATION
2002-2009 Columbia University
Ph.D. in Political Science 2009
M.Phil. 2005
1995-2002 Renmin University, China
M.A. in International Relations
B.A. in International Relations
SELECTED RECENT SERVICE
2023-present Editor, Asian Journal of Law and Society
2021-present Executive Member, Computational Law Branch, China Computer Federation
2017-present Deputy Director, Center for Law and Big Data Research, Tsinghua University School of
Law
2006-2010 Visiting Researcher, Center for Constitutional and Administrative Law, School of Law,
Renmin University of China
REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaohong-Yu-5
“Judicializing Public Interests: Administrative Performance Under the Shadow of Judicial Review” (with Tianhao Chen,Yu Sheng and Wei Xu), American Review of Public Administration (forthcoming), Correspondence Author.
“Administrative Litigation in China: Assessing the Chief Officials Appearance System,” (with Tianhao Chen and Wei Xu), China Quarterly (Forthcoming). Correspondence Author.
“An Empirical Analysis of the Effectiveness of People's Assessors: A Big-Data Analysis Based on 360,000 Judgments.” (with Wang Xiang), In Chinese, The Jurist, 2023(03).
“Reexamination on Influence Factors of China's Legislative Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis Based on Legislation Plans of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1991-2019).” (with Yang Hui), China Law, 2022(02).
“The Company They Keep—When and Why Chinese Judges Engage in Collegiality.” (with Sun Zhaoyang), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, (04) 2022, pp.936–1002. First and Correspondence Author.
“Advocacy-Selective Innovation Diffusion——Based on the Comparison of Multiple Cases of the Innovation Diffusion of the CPPCC System since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.” (with Tan Huosheng), In Chinese, CASS Journal of Political Science, 2022(6), pp.57-67.
“Caught Between Professionalism and Populism: A Big-data Analysis of Lay Participation System in China.” (with Wang Xiang.), China Review, (03) 2022, pp.167-202. First Author.
“Application of the Principle of Proportionality in Administrative Litigation-An Empirical Study Based on Published Judicial Decisions.” (with Ma Chao), In Chinese, Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), (04) 2022, pp.58-68. Correspondence Author.
“Differences in People's Assessors' Activity: Comparison and Interpretation.” (with Wang Xiang), In Chinese, Comparative Economic & Social Systems, 03 (2022), pp.153-164. Correspondence Author.
“What Influences Legislative Efficiency in China? : An Empirical Inquiry of NPCSC’s Legislative Plan (1991—2019).” (with Yang Hui), In Chinese, China Law Review, 02 (2022), pp.60-76 Correspondence Author..
The Meandering Path of Judicial Reform with Chinese Characteristics. In B. Ahl (Ed.), Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure: Post-2013 Reforms (pp. 29-58). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108973984.002
“People’s Assessors in China’s Political-legal Tradition: Institutional Changes and Developmental Logic.” (with Wang Xiang), In Chinese, Academic Monthly, 07 (2021), pp.105-120. First and Correspondence Author.
“Computational Law: Developing Dimensions, Trends and Perspectives.” In Chinese, Modern Law Science, 01 (2020), pp.158-178. First Author.
“The Rise of Computing Law in the Age of Big Data and the Interpretation of Its Deep Problems.”, (with Wang Xiang), In Chinese, Theoretical Exploration, 03 (2019), pp.110-117. First Author.
“Promoting the Political-Legal Work —Interpreting the 2019 Regulation on the Political-Legal WorkPromoting the Political-legal Work against the Backdrop of Political Reform--Interpreting the 2019 ‘Regulation on the Political-legal Work’.” (with Yang Hui), In Chinese, Academic Monthly, 11 (2019), pp.105-116. First Author.
“Supervision Reform and the Logic of Local Governance in China An Empirical Study on the Local Supervision Committees (2016-2018).” (with Yang Hui), In Chinese, Governance Studies, 06 (2019), pp.85-97. First Author.
“The Game and Balance of ‘De-localization’ and ‘De-administration’--Re-examination of the reform of provincial-level management of judicial personnel, property and property since 2014”，In Chinese, China Law Review, 05 (2017), pp.187-198.
“Building Deliberative System in China: Issues and Challenges.” (with Tan Huosheng), In Chinese, Journal of Central China Normal University (Humanities and Social Sciences), 06 (2017), pp.30-39.
The Judicialization of Constitution. Understanding Chinese Politics: The Key Words Approach. Y. Jing and X. Zhang. Paths International Ltd., 2017.
“Public Environmental Complaints on Semi-official Online Platform: Issues, Strategies and Influences.” (with Jia Zhemin), In Chinese. Wuhan University Journal (Philosophy & Social Science), 06 (2016), pp.125-133.
“A Big Data Analysis Report on the Online Disclosure of Judicial Judgments in China.” (with Ma Chao and He Haibo), In Chinese. China Law Review, 04(2016), pp.195-246.
“Connotation, Feature and Type of Social Organizations Negotiation.” (with Tan Huosheng), In Chinese, Academia Bimestris, 02 (2016), pp.71-77.
Legislative hearings and local people's congresses (with Sun Long). In Chinese, Proceedings of the Symposium on Democracy and Rule of Law. Beijing: National Academy of Governance Press, 2016.
“Editing and reading contacts.” In Chinese. Beijing Cultural Review, 06 (2014), pp.126-127.
“Strategic Compliance: How Chinese Courts Advance Administrative Litigation.”, In Chinese, Tsinghua University Law Journal, 04 (2014), pp. 103-124.
“Contracted Land Interchange Mechanism in Land Circulation Disputes: An Implication from the Experiences of County C in Zhejiang Province” (with Wang Jishu and Hu Saiquan), In Chinese, China Land Science, 12 (2014), pp.10-15.
“Expert Roundtable: The ‘Fifth Modernization’ Begins.” (with Jing Yuejin. et al), In Chinese, People's Tribune, 10 (2014), pp.16-21.
“Regional Diffusion of Local Innovation: A Case Study on the Ping’an Association in Xintai, Shandong.”, In Chinese, Journal of Chinese Academy of Governance, 06 (2013), pp. 39-43.
The Judicialization of Constitution in China. In Chinese, Understanding Chinese Politics: a Keyword Approach. Y. Jing and X. Zhang. Beijing: China Social Science Press, 2012.
“Innovation of Grassroots Governance in China: Investigation and Comparison in Macro Framework.” (with Zhang Xiaojin), In Chinese, The Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute, 05 (2012), pp.72-79.
“An Institutional Analysis of Governmental-Civil Dualism in Modern Chinese Associations: A Case Study of the Individual Workers Association of Haidian District in Beijing.” (with Li Zizi), In Chinese, Open Times, 09 (2001), pp. 90-96.
BOOKS
Contemporary Chinese Governments and Politics, In Chinese, Beijing: China Renmin University Press 2016. Co-edited with Jing Yuejin, Chen Mingming, Xiao Bin, and Tan Huosheng.
Six Lectures on Promoting the Modernization of National Governance System and Governance Capacity, In Chinese, Beijing: People's Publishing House 2014. Co-edited with Zhang Xiaojin.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Legal Formalism, Realism or Instrumentalism?--ad hoc Judicial Response to Covid-19 in China”, Presented at the 118th Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, Québec, Canada in September 2022. (Virtual Participation)
“The Company They Keep—When and Why Chinese Judges Engage in Collegiality”, Presented at the 79th Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA, in April 2022. (Virtual Participation)
“Legal Formalism, Realism or Instrumentalism?--ad hoc Judicial Response to Covid-19 in China”, Presented at the 79th Annual Conference of Midwest Political Science Association] , Chicago, USA, in April 2022. (Virtual Participation)
“The Company They Keep—When and Why Chinese Judges Engage in Collegiality”, Presented at the 15th Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Toronto, Canada, in March 2022. (Virtual Participation)
“The Company They Keep—When and Why Chinese Judges Engage in Collegiality”, Presented at the 17th Asian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference, Beijing, China, in December 2021.
“The Company They Keep—When and Why Chinese Judges Engage in Collegiality”, Presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, Warsaw, Poland, in September 2021. (Virtual Participation)
“Reevaluating Gridlock: Legislative Politics in China 1991-2019”, Presented at the 78th Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA, in April 2021. (Virtual Participation)
“Reevaluating Gridlock: Legislative Politics in China 1991-2019”, Presented at the 5th Quantitative China Studies Seminar (QCSS), New York, United States, in March 2021. (Virtual Participation)
“Does Law Matter in China?--- A Network Analysis of Legal Rules in China”, Presented at “Big Data and Courts in China’’, Cologne, Germany, in July 2019.
“Limits of Judicial Reform in China”, Presented at the Conference on Judicial Reforms and Criminal Procedure in China, Cologne, Germany, in December 2017.
“Trial Participation of People's Assessors in China (2014-2016)-A Big Data Assessment”, Symposium on Big Data and Judicial Studies”, Presented at CUHK seminar, Hong Kong, China, in October 2017.
“People’s Jurors in China: Sorry Apologies or Acting Judges?”, Presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, Cologne, Germany, in September 2016.
“Judicial Empowerment within/out of the Political-Legal System in China”, Presented at the Law and Society Annual Conference, Seattle, USA, in May 2015.
“Looking for Mr. Right? A Strategic Search for Partners in Sub-County Governance in China”, Presented at “Collaboration among Governments, Market, and Society”, Annual Conference for Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Shanghai, China, in May 2013.
“Getting Rid of the Radical: the Logic of Regional Diffusion of Local Innovation”, presented at the Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, New Orleans, USA, in September, 2012.
“Rule of Law under (Fragmented) Authoritarianism: Explaining the Judicialization in China”, presented at the Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, New Orleans, USA, in September 2012.
“Strategic Compliance – Court-Executive Relationship in China and the Empowerment of Local Court.” Presented at the Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., USA, in September 2010.
“Rise of Local Courts in China: Judicial Hierarchy, Institutional Adaptation, and Regime Resilience.” Presented at the Judicial Development Conference, Columbia University, in February 2009.
“Legislative-Judicial Relations in China: A Game-theoretical Approach.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany, in July 2007.
“How De Facto Constitutional Litigations Are Conducted in China: An Institutional Analysis.” Presented at the Graduate Seminar on China, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, in January 2005.
SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2021The first prize of Outstanding Paper in 2021 by the Chinese Law Society (law-making section)
2015The second prize of the Cai Dingjian Excellent Paper on Constitutional Law
COURSES TAUGHT
JD/PhD Law and Politics in the Era of Big Data
Comparative Judicial Politics
Contemporary Chinese Politics
Computational Legal Research
Undergraduate Introduction to Political Science
Chinese Government and Politics
Judicial Politics
Empirical Legal Studies in China
General Introduction to China
Politics in Films
Social Science Methodology
