The Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Research Center at the East China University of Political Science and Law was established in December 2006, with public international law experts as its core. The center is administered by the International Law School at the East China University of Political Science and Law.

 

With support from the university leadership and the research office, interdisciplinary cooperation in the center has been strengthened. Well-known scholars in constitutional law, legal history, legal theory, criminal investigation and military law have become advisers or key members of the center.

 

The main task of the center is to carry out research on human rights and humanitarian law, offer consultation, spread knowledge and information, and train professionals in human rights and international humanitarian law.

 

 

He Qinhua

 

Professor, doctoral adviser

 

Specialties: constitutionalism, human rights research, legal theory, legal history, Confucianism and legal culture

 

Director, adviser, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Center, East China University of Political Science and Law; president, East China University of Political Science and Law; managing director, China Law Society; vice president, Shanghai Law Society; president, National Foreign Legal History Research Society; vice president, China Confucianism and Legal Culture Research Society; vice president, Legal Education Committee of the China Law Society; managing director, Adjudication Theory Committee of the China Law Society.[page]

 

Guan Jianqiang

 

Professor, doctoral adviser

 

Specialties: human rights, international public law, international human rights law, humanitarian law, military law, teaches two bilingual courses in international human rights law and international humanitarian law

 

Deputy director, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Center, East China University of Political Science and Law; director, Dongfang Yi Military Law Research Center, East China University of Political Science and Law; director, International Public Law Teaching and Research Group; secretary general, Youth International Humanitarian Law Communication and Research Center, Shanghai Red Cross; managing director, China International Law Society.

 

Zhang Lei

 

Associate Professor

 

Specialty: human rights

 

Vice director, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Center, East China University of Political Science and Law

 

 

The center has a team of professors, associate professors and lecturers, who have achieved great academic results in human rights theory research.[page]

 

Take Prof. Zhu Yingping, for example. His academic achievements include:

 

1. Papers

 

(1) “Research on human rights protection in Australia’s common law,” Shanghai Journal of Law, vol. 5, 2005.

 

(2) “How Australian high courts uses the constitution to protect human rights,” Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Constitutional Law Committee of the China Law Society, Constitutionalism Manuscript, vol. 2, 2005.

 

(3) “Administrative protection for the equal education rights of migrant children,” East China College of Political Science and Law Journal, vol. 2, 2006.

 

(4) “Application of double review to political and economic rights,” Journal of Law, vol. 3, 2006.

 

(5) “Equal education rights of urban and rural children,” Procuratorial Daily, May 29, 2006.

 

(6) “Thoughts on the application of nondiscriminatory articles in the Australian Constitution,” Law and Business Studies, vol. 4, 2006.

 

(7) “Peking University’s discrimination against pupils in campus tours,” Procuratorial Daily, July 31, 2006.

 

(8) “Comparative study of the constitutional protection of equal rights in the United States and Australia,” Journal of Anhui University (political science edition), vol. 6, 2006.

 

(9) “Transformation and comments on constitutional rights in the People’s Republic of China,” ed. Gong Pixiang, Legal Modernization Study, vol. 10, Nanjing Normal University Press, 2006.

 

(10) “Research on constitutional protection of property rights in Australia,” Journal of Zhejiang, vol. 2, 2007.

 

(11) “The right to privacy as an implied constitutional right,” Journal of Guizhou Ethnic College (political science edition), vol. 4, 2007.

 

(12) “Research on the implied right to a fair trial,” Jinan Journal (political science edition), vol. 5, 2007.

 

(13) “Constitutional analysis of the implied right to movement,” Seeking Truth Journal, vol. 2, 2008.

 

(14) “Constitutional ruling on college enrollment distribution,” Journal of Zhejiang, vol. 1, 2010.

 

(15) “Protection of livelihood in the constitution,” Seeking Truth Journal, vol. 6, 2010.

 

(16) “Report on student enrollment at local Shanghai universities, using the East China University of Political Science and Law as a case study,” eds. Zhang Qianfan, Qu Xiangfei, College Enrollment and Constitutional Equality, Yilin Press, 2011.

 

(17) “Religious freedom and its legal restrictions in China,” Brigham Young University Law Review, March 2011.

 

(18) “Paths for protecting livelihood in the constitution,” Jianghuai Forum, vol. 1, 2012.

 

(19) “Educational equality from the administrative law perspective,” Education Supervision and Law Enforcement, vol. 2, 2013.

 

(20) “Boosting positive energy with freedom of religious belief,” Studies Forum, vol. 4, 2013.[page]

 

Symposium on historical responsibility of and education in World War II in Asia

 

2. Books

 

(1) Zhu Yingping, Constitutional Protection for the Right to Equality, Peking University Press, 2004.

 

(2) Zhu Yingping, Research on Constitutional Rights in Australia, Law Press, December 2006.

 

(3) Zhu Yingping, Comparative Studies on Constitutional Rights in Australia and the United States, Shanghai People’s Press, August 2008.

 

(4) Zhu Yingping, Research on Human Rights Protective Function in Non-rights Articles in the Constitution, Law Press, 2009.

 

(5) Zhang Qianfan, Zhu Yingping, Wei Xiaoyang, Constitutional Comparison – Cases and Analyses, Renmin University of China Press, 2011.

 

 

1. Expansion of research in peace-time and war-time human rights, domestic and international human rights law

 

The center has tracked lawsuits by Chinese citizens seeking compensation from Japan, and has offered, from the international law perspective, a great amount of support and constructive advice to the people seeking compensation from Japan. Researchers have also studied the opposition arguments of the Japanese government, writing targeted papers about legal theory for Chinese and Japanese media and journals. Considering that the broad sense of human rights includes peace-time and war-time human rights, the university established the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Research Center in 2006.

 

The human rights research center at the university became a learning base for Canadian teachers in their study of history and law in China. This contributed to Canadian textbooks including information about Japanese atrocities in China during Japan’s invasions in Asia. Those Canadian teachers would also tell students what they had seen and experienced in China.[page]

 

Meanwhile, the center cooperated with the Red Cross Asia Representative Office to organize an international training symposium on international human rights law at the university, which, together with the Shanghai Red Cross, established in June 2012 the Shanghai Youth International Humanitarian Law Communication and Research Center.

 

2. The center combines theoretical research with practical application, offering advice and consultation to the government and pushing forward democracy and the rule of law as well as development of human rights protection.

 

3. The center initiated human rights and international human rights curricula to train more professionals. The human rights law educational program has been systematized and covers both undergraduate and graduate students.

 

4. The center has a research team comprising scholars from many specialties and divisions and of different ages.

 

 

1. The center, since its establishment, has been affiliated to the International Law School. It has become a platform for academic research, teaching, exchange, dissemination and consultation. The center invites various scholars and experts to take part in its academic programs for training graduate students in international human rights law.

 

The center aims to become a training base for professionals in human rights law and international human rights law. The center will apply to offer a master’s program and then a doctoral program in international human rights law.

 

2. Measures for Attaining its Goals and Guarantees

 

(1) The university has experts on the constitution, legal theory, juvenile crime, international criminal law, international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

 

(2) At the end of 2013, the university established the Military Law Research Center. Starting from September 2014, master’s students in military law will enroll in the center; one of the program’s specializations will be international humanitarian law.[page]

 

The university has enough faculty and other resources to train international human rights or human rights students, offering doctoral programs in law and a master’s program in international humanitarian law. Another master’s program in international human rights law is almost ready to accept applications.

 

(3) Human rights research and education are often politically and ideologically driven, which requires the center to increasingly focus on big national strategic demands and strengthen the construction of a human rights think tank. While strengthening its international humanitarian law research, the center should continuously innovate and improve Chinese socialism’s theoretical and discourse system for human rights, spread human rights culture, carry out international academic exchange, and provide intellectual support, ideological guarantees and academic resources for the development of human rights in China.

 

(4) The center needs to integrate resources at the university, conducting further exploration in terms of organization and institution building, hardware development, academic discipline development, professional training, subject research, human rights training, innovation in management mechanisms, international exchange and the building of a coordinated innovation center. The university’s leadership has promised to actively support the advancement of the center, which is the institutional guarantee for reaching the goals set by the center.