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Cornell Law School
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Xingzhong Yu 
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor in Chinese Law
Books
Rule of Law and Civil Orders (Fazhi Yu Wenming Zhixu) Beijing: Chinese University of Politics and Law Press, 2006.
Contributions to Books
"Deliberative Democracy and Freedom of Association," (in Chinese) in Legal Aspects of Social Organizations (Wu Yuzhang ed., Beijing: Social Science Archives Press, 2004).
"Human Faculties and Human Societies - A Three Dimensional Cultural Epistemology" in Archiv Fur Rechs - Und Sozialphilosophie Beiheft 102, Epistemology and Ontology of Law  (Zenon Bankowski ed.) Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 2005.
"Judicial Professionalism in China: From Discourse to Practice" in Prospects for Professionalism in China: Essays on Civil Vocations (William P. Alford, Kenneth Winston & William C. Kirby, eds., Routledge, forthcoming 2009).
"Western Constitutional Ideas and Chinese Discourse on Constitutionalism" in Building Constitutionalism in China (Michael Dowdle and Stephanie Balme eds.) Palgrave Macmillian, 2009. 
"Formalism and Commitment in Hong Kong's Constitutional Development" in Interpreting Hong Kong's Basic Law: The Struggle for Coherence,  (Hualing Fu, Lison Harris and Simon Young eds.) Palgrove Macmillan, 2007.
"Citizenship, Ideology and the PRC Constitution", in Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (Goldman and Perry eds.) Harvard University Press, 2002.
"On Pufendorf's Elementa Jurisprudentiae Universalis Libri Duo in Annual Studies of Western Legal Philosophers, (Deng Ahenglai ed.) Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2007.
Articles
"Regulatory and Institutional Framework of Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China", China Law, No. 2, April 2009.
"European Constitution and Its Implications for China", 1 Legisprudence - an International Journal of the Study of Legislation 181 (2007).
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"Artifical Intelligence, Defeasible Reasoning and Law (in Chinese) Legal Thinking and Legal Method, No. 3, 2005. 
"In Search of the Balance between Law and Politics," (with Ge Hongyi) in Peking University Law Journal No. 6 ( Beijing University Law School) (2003).
"Emancipation, Development and Law : Modernity into Postmodernity," (in Chinese) 1  Journal of Economic Review,  2005.
"Forms of Law and Forms of Legal Resoning," Legal Thinking and Legal Method  No.2 (2003).
""Value Transformation and the Disappearance of the Subject---On the Crisis of Contemporary Confucianism," Legal Theory and Precedents (an online journal maintained by Zhejiang University Law School) (November 2003). 
"Analogical Reasoning in Law," Legal Thinking and Legal Method, No.1 (July 2002).
"The Ultimate Rule of Recognition in Hong Kong Law - retrospect and prospect," (in Chinese) Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 22 Spring/Summer, 2002.
"The Role of Natural Law in the Divinization and Secularization of Law," (in Chinese) Legal Science, No. 118, 2002.
"Liberal Legal Values and the Globalisation of Law," 1 Tsinghua Law Journal No.1 (2002). 
"Modern and Postmodern in Jurisprudence," The People's University Law Review No. 1 (2001).
"Is the Rule of Law the Most Ideal Option for Mankind," Law Science Monthly, No.1 (2002).
"Rule of Law as a Civil Order," 2 Tsinghua Forum of the Rule of Law (2001).
"Rule of Law as a Civil Order," (in Chinese) 2 Tsinghua Forum of the Rule of Law, 2001.
"Legal Pragmatism in the PRC," (Originally published in 3:1 Journal of Chinese Law, Fall 1989, collected in the volume on Chinese Law and Legal Theory edited by Perry Keller for the International Library of Essays and Legal Theory, 2001.
"The Authority System and the Chinese Constitution," Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences,  No. 6 (1995).
"Order and Civil Order,"8 Investigation of Culture (January 1997).
"An Introduction to Contemporary Western Legal Philosophy," Legal Science (1988). 
Book Reviews
Book Review: Fernando Atria and D. Neil MacCormick (eds.) Law and Legal Interpretation, 14 The Law and Politics Book Review No. 5 (May 2004).
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Book Review: Law as Communication by Mark Van Hoecke, 13 The Law and Politics Book Review No. 8 (August 2003).
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Book Review: Luc J. Wintgers (ed.),  Legisprudence : A New Theoretical Approach to Legislation 13 The Law and Politics Book Review No. 5 (May 2003).  
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Book Review: Banakar and Travers (eds.) An Introduction to Law and Social Theory, 13 The Law and Politics Book Review NO.2 (An electronic publication of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association) February 2003.
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