She teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, Hong Kong and Macau Basic Law. Her research fields include constitutionalism in transitional society, Hong Kong and Macau Basic Law, freedom of information, and administrative reconsideration in China. Professor Cheng supervised a civil rights legal clinic at Tsinghua from 2002-5. She then worked for the National People’s Congress Standing Committee Hong Kong & Macau Basic Law Committee between 2006-7 while teaching at Tsinghua. She has been appointed as a commissioner of the Beijing Municipality Administrative Reconsideration Board since 2011. She is also legal council and reconsideration commissioner for Xicheng and Daxing District Governments of Beijing. RSVP to dkh25@cornell.edu