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Ms. Jingwei LIU is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Master’s degree in Law from East China University of Political Science and Law. Her research interests revolve around law and society, empirical legal studies, and feminist jurisprudence.
Sexual Harassment and Violence in the People’s Republic of China: Gender Inequality in the Legal Process and Victims’ Participation Empowerment, co-supervised by Professors Kevin CHENG and Christopher ROBERTS.
I am interested in law and society, empirical legal studies, and feminist jurisprudence. With my thesis, I hope to take a qualitative approach to understand sexual harassment and violence against women in the PRC from the perspectives of victims and legal professionals.
- Jiang, J., & Liu, J. (2022). Penal welfare or penal sovereignty? A political sociology of recent formalization of Chinese community corrections. Punishment & Society, 24(4), 501-528.
- He Ma and Jingwei Liu, “Research on the Intentional Homicide of Wife Killing -Taking 44 Typical Cases as the Research Object”, Chinese Criminology Review（《犯罪研究》）, no.6, 2021.
- Temporary Trust: Legal Cynicism, Protection, and the Paradox of Victim Participation in Justice, Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Malaysia, December 15-16, 2023.
- Protection Or Illusion? Examining Sex Victims’ Legal Consciousness of Police Engagement Through Legal Estrangement, Hong Kong Sociology Association 24th Annual Conference, Hong Kong, December 2, 2023.
- The Tangshan Attack Case: Examining the challenges facing the victims’ participation in sexual harassment in China, the 16th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference, online, May 4-5, 2023.
Education
- Master of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, China, 2022.
- Bachelor of Law, Qufu Normal University, China, 2019.
Awards
- Honourable Mention, the 16th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference, 2023
- Honor Graduate in Shanghai, 2022