Academic interests
International human rights law, minority and indigenous peoples´ rights, implementation of law, anthropological/sociological studies of law, environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, law, and sustainable development, Sami law in Nordic countries, Nordic legal history, law and society in China.
Courses Taught
- 2022: NCHR Annual Intensive Course in Human Rights - Cultural Rights and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
- 2022: HUMR5508 – Human Rights and Diversity - Leading Cases and Core Dilemmas, lectures on Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Minorities: Law and Practice in China and Nordic Countries
- 2018 - 2020：EDS245 Human Rights and Development, International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), https://www.nmbu.no/course/EDS245?studieaar=2019
- 2019 - Legal Anthropology, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai
- 2019 - KIN4540 Law and Ethnicity in China, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo
- 2016 - 2019 HUMR5508 Commitment and Compliance of Human Rights Conventions
- 2017 - 2018 JUS5710 Human Rights and Law in China
- 2015 - Indigenous rights and education, The Oslo Global School course in 2015
- 2006 - KIN4023 - Anthropology/Sociology in China, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo
- 2004 - “Ethnic Challenges and State Response, China as a Case”, master courses at NCHR
- 1999 - The Fourth Chinese Law Short Course, NCHR, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
- 1996 - Legal Anthropology, Minzu University of China, Beijing
Academic background and work experience
He holds four law degrees from Norway (Ph.D., University of Oslo), the UK (LLM, University of Nottingham), and China (LLB, East China University of Political Sciences and Law; Master of Law, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences). Since 1989, He has done the research, teaching, and international programs administration at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Faculty of Law, University of Oslo; Sami Centre, University of Tromsø; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law & Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Cambridge with focus on international human rights law, minorities and indigenous peoples´ rights, sustainable development governance. He was employed as an Associate Professor (1996 - 2003) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a Guest Professor at Minzu University of China (Beijing) and Central-South China University of Nationalities (Wuhan), Adjunct professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law (Shanghai).
He was an invited speaker by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at the UN Forum on the Beijing-Oslo Recommendations for the Protection of Linguistic Minorities´ Rights in the Palais des Nations, Geneva; and the WuZelin Ethno-Culture Memorial Lecturer on Indigenous Peoples´ Self-Determined Development at Tsinghua University (Beijing, 2019) in China.
He acted as an independent expert for NOVIB in The Netherlands and the Norwegian Ethic Council to evaluate several international programs, including the Dutch-China Legal Aid, investment and human rights programs. During 2003 - 2015, He worked as a researcher as well as program director of the China-Norwegian research/teaching cooperation on law and ethnic affairs funded by the NORAD at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. He is an expert member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), IUCN (2020 - 2025).
Present position
Norwegian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
Awards and scholarships
- 1997-1999 British FCO Chevening Scholarship
- 1996 Excellent Academic Research Award, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Partners
University of Cambridge, UK
MIASU, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge is the partner of the Norwegian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow during 2019 - 2022.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China
Research fellow of the CASS key project on the Social and Economic Development of Minority Nationalities in China, and published research results include:
Oroqin Hunters Rights to Forest, Autonomy and Sustainable Development, in Liu Xiaocun ed., Oroqin Autonomous Banner, Economic and Social Report of the Minority Nationalities´ Region in China, Pp. 45-87, China Social Sciences Publishing House, Beijing, 2018. ISBN: 978-7-5203-2777-0
Hydropower Development and Sustainable Governance in Tibet, in Fang Sumei ed. Share and Development Studies in Himalaya Region, Pp. 195-214, Series of the Tibet Think-tank at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2019. ISBN: 978-7-5201-4856-6
China Minzu University (CMU), Beijing, PRC
Guest Professor, lectures and seminars on international law, legal anthropology and Nordic Sami law. Research article publications in 2022:
Constructing New Social Contract between Sami People and State in Three Nordic Countries, in Legal Anthropology Review, Vol No. 8, 2022, Pp. 374-390, CMU Press, ISBN: 978-7-5660-2079-6
FPIC Rule, Indigenous Peoples, and Governance of Hydropower Sustainability, in Wu Da ed. Culture, Ecology and Law, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2022
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Research Partner, Environmental Rights in Cultural Context (ERCC)
https://www.eth.mpg.de/ercc-team
Media
UN Web TV
Speech at the 15th Session of Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Geneva, July 2022
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k1rz3k76dx
The Nordic Asia Podcasts
Towards a Green China, November 2022
What does the concept of ecological civilisation mean in practice? And how can we understand the relationship between grand visions, legal systems, green politics and development processes on the ground in contemporary China?
https://newbooksnetwork.com/towards-a-green-china