Wang Xigen  (Prof.)

Biografie:

Wang Xigen, Dean of the Law School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Director of the National Human Rights Education and Training Base at HUST. He has been selected as a “Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor”, a National Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences under the “Ten Thousand People Plan”, Cultural Celebrities of “Four Batches” Talents Plan, the National Hundred Million Talents Project, Ten Outstanding Young Jurists of China, the New Century Talents of the Ministry of Education, and the Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Theses of China. He has received more than 20 awards, including the first prize of the National Excellent Teaching Achievement Award. He has published 30 books in Chinese, English and Japanese in China, Japan, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries, and over 200 papers in Chinese, English and Japanese in national and international newspapers and journals. He is an authoritative expert in the field of human rights law, the right to development, the rule of law and justice, and has presided over the drafting of the White Paper on China’s right to development and the UN draft criteria, resolution and convention on the right to development.