Prof Dr Guobin ZHU

Professor of Law, Director, Public Law and Human Rights Forum, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong; Co-Associate Director, Centre of Public Affairs and Law, City University of Hong Kong. Justice of the Peace.

Member, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Task Force of the Department of Justice, the HKSAR Government; Expert Member, the Expert Committee of the “15th Five-Year Plan” for the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen Government; Advisor to Our Hong Kong Foundation; Vice-Chairman, Steering Committee for Undergraduate Legal Education of Colleges and Universities of Guangdong Province, China; Funding Director and Executive Member, The China Legal Professional Association (HK); Arbitrator and Mediator.

Currently Guest/Adjunct Professor at Shandong University, Wuhan University Law School Distinguished Professor of Law at Law School of Guangzhou College of Commerce, and Distinguished Research Fellow of The Chinese Institute of Hong Kong.

Titular Member, International Academy of Comparative Law; Standing Council Member, Association of Hong Kong Basic Law and Macau Basic Law; Council Member, Chinese Association of Constitutional Law and Chinese Society of Judicial Studies; Member, International Association of Constitutional Law, French Society of Comparative Legislation, Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, and Chinese Society of Public Administration.

BA, MA, LLM (RenminU of China, Beijing), LLM (Hong Kong University), PhD and HDR (Diplôme d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) (Aix-Marseille University, France).

Stagiaire at Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France, 1989-1990); Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2007-08, 2020), and Columbia Law School (Spring 2011).

Areas of Research Interest: Chinse and Comparative Constitutional Law, Hong Kong Basic Law, Human Rights Law, Chinese and Hong Kong Legal System, Comparative Law, and Chinese Public Administration.

Extensively published in the above fields, in English, Chinese or French. Recent publications are found in: Stanford Journal of International Law, ICL – Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Colombia Journal of Asian Law, Suffolk University Law Review, Human Rights Quarterly, Asian-Pacific Law Review, Hong Kong Law Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences, China: An International Journal, and Chinese Journal of Law.

The most recent publication on human rights is Human Rights and Gender Based Violence in Asia: A Comparative Critical Analysis, co-edited with Fozia Nazir Lone and Anthony Carty, Routledge, Nov 2025.

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https://www.cityu.edu.hk/slw/about-the-school/our-people/professor/professor-zhu-guobin