Frank He

Visiting Professor

Phone: 217-333-0930 Email: lwxin@cityu.edu.hk LL.B., Peking University Master of Legal Philosophy, Peking University Master of the Science of Law, Stanford Law School Doctor of the Science of Law, Stanford Law School Courses Law and Society in China Vita

Professor Frank He is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law. Professor He rejoined the City University of Hong Kong faculty in 2006 after serving as the Hauser Research Scholar at the New York University School of Law. He has also been a Global Visiting Professor at NYU Law School, a lecturer at City University of Hong Kong School of Law, and a summer associate in the Hong Kong office of Baker & McKenzie. Professor He earned his LL.B. in 1995 and a Master of Legal Philosophy in 1999 from Peking University followed by his Master of the Science of the Law (JSM) in 2000 and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) in 2004 from Stanford University Law School. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York. Professor He specializes in law and society, law and development, law and politics, and the Chinese legal system. Professor He will teach Law and Society in China at the University of Illinois College of Law.  Professor He's publications include "Street as Courtroom: State Accommodation of Labor Protests in South China," coauthored with Yang Su, Law & Society Review, Vol. 44, no.1, 2010 forthcoming; "Enforcing Commercial Judgments in the Pearl River Delta of China," American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 59, no.2, 419-56, 2009; "Court Finance and Court Reactions to Judicial Reforms: A Tale of Two Chinese Courts," Law & Policy , Vol. 31, No. 3, 2009 forthcoming; "Routinization of Divorce Law Practice in China: How Institutional Constraints Influence Judicial Behavior," International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, lead article, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1-27, 2009; "Dispute Resolution in China," co-authored with Randall Peerenboom, East Asia Law Review, lead article, Vol. 4, 1-61, 2009; "Why Do They not Take the Disputes? Law, Power, Politics in the Decision-Making of Chinese Courts," International Journal of Law in Context, Vol. 3, No. 3, 203-25, 2007; "Recent Decline in Chinese Economic Caseload: Exploration of a Surprising Puzzle," The China Quarterly, Vol. 190, 352-74, June 2007; and, "Why Do They Not Comply with the Law? Illegality and Semi-Illegality among Rural-Urban Migrant Entrepreneurs in Beijing," Law & Society Review Vol. 39, No. 3, 527-62, 2005. Professor He also authored the book chapter "Administrative Law as a Political Control Mechanism in Contemporary China," in Stephanie Balme & Michael Dowdle eds., Building Constitutionalism in China, Palgrave Macmillian, 2009, forthcoming. His current research project is Principal Investigator: Enforcing Contract Judgments in China, 2008 GRE, Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Government