He obtained his LL.B. LL.M from Peking University and J.S.M and J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and was a Hauser Research Scholar at NYU Law School. He has published widely in the leading journals in the fields of law and society, and the Chinese legal system, including recently "Why Do They Not Comply with the Law? in Law & Society Review, 2005, "The Recent Decline of Economic Caseloads in China: Exploration of a Surprising Puzzle" in The China Quarterly, 2007, "Why Do Chinese Courts Not Take on the Disputes?" in International Journal of Law in Context, 2007, "Enforcing CommercialJudgments in the Pearl River Delta of China," in American Journal of Comparative Law, 2009 forthcoming, and "Routinization of Divorce Law Practice in China: Institutional Constraints' Impact on Judicial Behavior, " in International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2009 forthcoming.