Editorial note
On October 22nd, at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, Associate Professor Liu Han of Tsinghua University Law School was awarded the Yntema Prize. The award-winning article, “Regime-Centered and Court-Centered Understandings: The Reception of American Constitutional Law in Contemporary China”, was published in the first issue of American Journal of Comparative Law in 2020, which drew considerable attention from the international academic community. Previously the article had been rated among "Top Ten Comparative Law Papers in 2020" by Oxford University Press.
▲ Liu Wei accepts the prize online
The "Yntema Prize" was established by the American Society of Comparative Law in 1991 to commemorate the first editor-in-chief of American Journal of Comparative Law, Prof. Hessel E. Yntema, a famous comparative jurist and professor of the University of Michigan Law School. This award aims to recognize scholars under 40 who have published the best papers in American Journal of Comparative Law in the previous year. The other prize winner this year is Prof. James Fowkes of the Law School of the University of Münster, Germany.
▲Liu Han's award-winning paper
Liu Han, J.S.D from Yale University, is an associate professor and doctoral tutor of Tsinghua University School of Law. His main research fields are public law, cyber law and information law, legal theory and political philosophy. He has published many papers in Chinese Law, American Journal of Comparative Law and other Chinese and foreign journals, and has authoredE pluribus unum: Deep Structure of American Constitution and Thinking Big: Law is a Way of Thinking.
The courses he teaches have been selected into the national first-class undergraduate courses, and his academic works have won the 2020 Top Ten Comparative Law Papers Award from Oxford University Press, the 2020 Top Ten Law Books Award from Legal Weekly, the title of "Chinese Leaders in American Studies" from the US-China Education Trust, "100 Young Talents in Law" in Beijing and "Young Scholar of Distinction" from Tsinghua University, among others.
A/Prof. Liu Han’s academic and professional affiliations include members of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee of Beijing Municipal People's Government, Deputy Secretary-General of the Hong Kong and Macao Basic Law Research Society of the China Law Society, Director of China Cyber Law and Information Law Society, among others.