As a professor of Jurisprudence and Constitution, he previously taught at the Law School of Hunan University and the Law Department in University of International Relations (UIR). Now he serves in Law School of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Dr. Xiao is also the member of the China Association of Constitutional Law, and the China Society for Human Rights Studies.

Ⅱ. Education Background

1997-–2000,  Hunan Normal University, Master of Laws;

2001-–2004,  Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, PhD of Constitutional Law.

Ⅲ. Working Experience

1994--1997, worked as a secretary and editor in Hunan University;

2000--2004, served as a lecturer in the Law School of Hunan University and a secretary for the honorary dean, Prof. Li Buyun. He assisted Prof.Li to set up the course of “Human Rights Law”;

2004--2020, served as a professor in the University of International Relations (UIR). He gives lectures to the undergraduates, postgraduates as well as police officers. The main courses he has taught include National Security Law and International Human Rights Law, etc.

2007--2008,  Guest researcher of Georgetown University Law Center in USA; 

2015--2016,  Visiting Professor of Law School of Hamburg University in Germany.

He has been selected as an outstanding teacher several times. In 2011, he was awarded for an Advanced Individual in the recognition of national legal education. He also guided students to participate in the National International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition which is organized by the ICRC , and International Criminal Law Moot Court Competition. Among these competitions, his teams had won the first and fourth prize place in China. His course of International Human Rights Law is universally praised within the UIR and exerts a broad influence on mainland colleges and universities.

Ⅳ. Major Professional Achievements:

He has taken charge of and finished seven scientific research projects at the national and ministerial level, covering areas like including legislative study (to protect the rights of prisoners) of Community Correction Act, construction of international human rights mechanism, capacity building for domestic human rights guarantee, guarantee of children’s rights, guarantee of rights of the disabled, guarantee of rights of the aged, and constitutional research. Besides, there are three monographs: Lecture notes on International Human Rights Law (Intellectual Property Rights Press, 2013), and On Constitutionalism: Basic Research on Socialist Constitutionalism (China Social Science Press, 2010), Popular Sovereignty (Shangdong Renmin Press, 2005). The Moral Dimension of Human Rights, (Translator, Commercial Press, 2018); Translations of Selected Foreign Constitutions, (main translator, Law Press, 2015). Moreover, he has more than 50 academic articles published in major periodicals and newspapers such as Legal Science of China, People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, Legal Science, Legal System and Social Development, among which the article “The migration-displacement nexus in China” is collected in The migration-displacement nexus (Berghahn Books Press, 2011) edited by Prof. Susan F. Martin, a famous scholar in the Immigration Research Center of Georgetown University (USA).

In addition to the above achievements, he also finished many research projects on human rights law supported by the Information Office of the State Council, submitted the internal policy consultation reports for the Government and participated in several times the Sino-EU Seminar on Human Rights as Chinese experts for several times. Furthermore, he has taken part in the argumentation on the early modification of Chinese laws including National Security Law and Immigration Law, etc.

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