Lei Wang

Lei Wang is a professor of law at Peking University Law School. He received his Ph.D., Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Laws from Peking University Law School. He teaches Chinese Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Hong Kong and Macau Basic Laws. His publications include “To Choose the Constitution” (Peking University Press, 2003), “Bush v. Gore” (Peking University Press, 2002), and “Constitutional Law Applied in Courts” (China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2000). He provided an expert opinion in the 2018 case of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Co-location) before the Hong Kong High Court ([2018] HKCFI 2657). His research focuses on constitutional interpretation in the U.S. and China and presidential government. He is completing a book on the interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. While at the Paul Tsai China Center, he will undertake research on the judicial review of presidential executive orders.