Xia Li, PhD, JD

Xia Li, PhD, JD

 Role: Professor of Law, East China University
Shanghai, China

  Contact: lisa_1@163.com

  Research Interests:
Family Law | Contract Law | Torts | Feminist Legal Theory

Xia Li is a Professor of Law at Shandong University and serves as the Director of the Center for Study of Civil & Commercial Case Law. She is the author of The Adult Guardianship System in the Chinese Civil Code (Shandong University, 2007); Comparative Study on Custodianship in Family Law (Shandong University Press, 2004); Family Law and Succession Law (Shandong University Press, 2006); Divorce and Property: The Division of Community Property (Shandong Press, 2004); and is co-author of The Draft Civil Code of the People`s Republic of China (English Translation, Martinus Nijhoff Press, 2010); Contract Law (Fudan Press,2005); and The Rights of Minors (Shandong People Press, 2001).  She also has published over thirty articles in scholarly journals.

Prior to going to Shandong University in 2001, Dr. Li held an academic appointment at the Jinan University.  She has been awarded research funding from the National Institutes of Social Science Fund of China for Adult Guardianship, the National Department of Justice for the Comparative Study on Mental Health Legislation, the National Institutes of Educational Department for the Elderly Law Study.  Dr. Li is a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Family Law Institute and since 2006 has participated in the Asian Regional Seminar on Gender and Law.  She is Counselor of the Women’s Federation of Jinan, a member of the Chinese Network Annual Meeting of Sex and Legal Research, and researcher for the Centre for Protection of Human Rights of Chinese Vulnerable Groups, Shandong University.  Professor Li was awarded the 2004-2005 Shandong University Teaching Award for excellence in teaching.


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