Dr. Ye reported and commented broadly on issues and events surrounding the rule of law in China and in other countries. Dr. Ye received his PhD in Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014. His research is primarily on rule of law development in transitional states. His dissertation developed a new analytical framework for studying hybrid legal systems that can be neither categorized as rule of law nor rule by law. He has applied this framework in his study of the Chinese legal system during the reform era.