I. Basic Information
Qu Xiangfei, Professor, Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences（CASS）. She also serves as vice minister of Rights and Interest Ministry, All-China Women’s Federation, editor of Chinese Review of International Law. She is a member of China Law Society, and executive member of China society of jurisprudence.
She obtained her Ph.D., LL.M and LL.B from Shandong University, School of Law in 2004, 1998 and 1995, respectively; conducted post-doctoral research in Renmin University, Law School, from 2007 to 2010. Before she joined CASS, she was Assistant Professor, Lecturer and Associate Professor in Law School, Shandong University.
She was a visiting scholar of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law/RWI, Sweden; a visiting scholar of CCSEP in law school, Victoria University, Canada. She also conducted short time research in several foreign universities and international organizations.
Her main research areas include Human Rights Philosophy, Human Rights History in the Republic of China and International Human Rights Law. In recent years, she has paid much attention on disability rights, gender equality, right to education and right to health. She has published more than 40 articles on Human Rights in Chinese core journals, and published, co-authored and co-edited 5 works and textbooks about Human Rights Law and Jurisprudence.
In 2015 Tsinghua University Press published her book “How Far Is Human Rights Away from Us ----The Concept of Human Rights and Its Evolution in Modern China”. In this book, she discussed and probed deeply into a series of essential issues about Human Rights, emphasized the universality of Human Rights, analyzed the congruent relationship between the subject of Human Rights and the contents of Human Rights, and elaborated the changing and challenges Human Rights had gone through in modern China from late Qing Dynasty to 1949. This book has earned a good reputation in China.
Her Selected Articles on Human Rights include:
1. Reasonable Accommodation in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities----Benchmark of Consideration and Method of Protection, in 2016(2) Tribune of Political Science and Law. 2. Human Beings, Citizens and World Citizens: Evolution of Subjects of Human Rights and Institutional Safeguards of Human Rights, in (2008)4 Tribune of Political Science and Law. 3. On the Origin and Development of the Concept of “Reasonable Accommodation”. in 2015(6)Human Rights. 4. Human Dignity and Human Rights Protection. in 2013(3)Human Rights. 5. The convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the change of Chinese disability model. In 2014(4)Study and Exploration. 6. The convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the protection of persons with disabilities in China, in 2013(4)Law Science, monthly. (General Serial No. 381) 7. Road Options for Removing Constitutional Barriers to the Farmers’ Right of Land Development. 2012(6) Law Science. 8. The Thinking of Improving the Expropriation Procedures of the Rural Collective Land. In 2012(6)Study and Exploration. 9. Analysis of Corporate Places in the US Constitution, in 2011(4) Global Law Review. 10. Can the Human Rights Clause of the Chinese Constitution be Interpreted from the International Human Rights Law Perspective? Human Rights and Good Governance（Volume I）, Brill Publishers，2016. 11. The Constitutional Analysis on the “Reporting on Its Work” of the State Organs and the Supervisory Committee’s “Reporting on Its Work”. in 2017(2) Journal of Beijing University(Humanities and Social Sciences). 12. Characteristics of reasonable accommodation and its application in employment in China, in 2018(2) Human Rights. 13. Reasonable accommodation and its application in education in China, in 2017(2)Human Rights. 14. The Subjects of Human Rights, co-author, (2001) 2 China Legal Science. 15. Interpretation of Law (Conversation by Writing), (2001) 2 CASS Journal of Law. 16. A Useful Experiment in the Reform of Legal Education System: Borrowing from the Clinic Legal Education Mode, (2001) 6 Journal of Shandong University. 17. A Tentative Exploration of the Right to Education, (2002) 3 Journal of Political Science and Law. 18. Analysis of the Equal Right to Education, in (2003) 5 Journal of Shandong University. 19. On the Subject of Human Rights, in Human Rights Studies, vol. 1, Shandong People's Publishing Press, 2001. 20. On the Right to Dignity, in Human Rights Studies, vol. 3, Shandong People's Publishing Press, 2003. 21. A Criticism of Liberalist View on Human Rights Subjects, in Human Rights Studies, vol. 4, Shandong People's Publishing Press, 2004. 22. Legitimacy of Human Rights and Theory of Conscience, in (2005) 3 Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy. 23. Safeguarding the Right to Health in International Law Cases, in (2008) 2 Study and Exploration. 24. The Concept of Human Rights in China in the End of the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 20th Century, (2008) 4 Jurists. 25. A Review of Major Human Rights Theories in China During the Past Thirty Years of Reform and Opening up, in Human Rights Studies, vol. 8, Shandong People's Publishing Press, 2008. 26. On the Universality and Subjects of Human Rights, (2009) 4 Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy. 27. Protection of the Right to Health in Foreign Constitutional Cases, (2009) 4 Seeking Truth. 28. Constitutional Safeguards for the Rights of Fetus: German and U.S. Modes, (2009) 6 Global Law Review. 29. Citizen's Right to Have Access to Self-Service Dialysis, (2009) 8 Pacific Journal. 30. Safeguards for Citizen's Constitutional Rights and Institutional Development of Democracy, (2009) 4 Case Study. 31. Artificial Localization of Colleges Affiliated to Ministry of Education and the Equality of Right to Education, (2009) 11 Law Science. 32. Human Rights Belief: Reflections on Human Rights Education, (2010) 1 Journal of Guangzhou University. 33. Analysis of Xiamen PX Project Incident, in Hu Jingguang (ed.) Analysis of Typical Constitutional Cases in China, Renmin University of China Press, 2008. 34. Major Doctrine of Human Rights Theory in the Past Thirty Years of Reform and Opening up, (2009) 4 Human Rights. 35. Safeguarding the Life and Dignity of persons with Intellectual and Mental Disabilities , (2010) 2 Journal of Henan Administrative Institute of Politics and Law.
