Research Profile

Dr George G. Zheng 鄭戈

Dr. Zheng Ge, Assistant Professor, joined the Faculty of Law in 2004. He was born in China and educated in China, Canada and the USA. He got his LLB from Sichuan University in 1991, worked as a police officer in Sichuan province from 1991 to 1993, and returned back to academia in 1993 to get his graduate education in Peking University. After getting his Master and Doctorate degrees at PKU, he joined the law faculty there as an assistant professor in 1998. In July 2000, he was invited to the University of Michigan as a visiting scholar, then entered the SJD program in the University of Toronto with the distinguished Connaught Scholarship. During the 2001-2002 academic year, he studied at Duke University in the LLM program, while teaching a Chinese Law course there. Before coming to HKU, he was an Edwards Fellow at Columbia University.

Dr. Zheng specializes in Constitutional Law and Legal Theory. His PHD dissertation at PKU explores the legal implications of Max Weber’s social and political thought, and he is now writing his SJD dissertation for the University of Toronto, which is a comparative study on free speech in the jurisdictions of Canada, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United States. He published a number of influential articles in Chinese, mostly in the field of legal theory and public law, including “The Limits of Rule of Law: A Public Choice Approach”《法治的可能性及其限度》, “Towards a Social Theory of Law”《邁向一種法律的社會理論》and “Is Legal Scholarship a Branch of Social Sciences?”《法學是一門社會科學嗎？》. He also translated several classical books in western legal tradition into Chinese, including Leon Duguit’s Les transformations du droit prive and Lon Fuller’s Morality of Law. These translations have been published by prestigious publishers in China.

His current research includes Chinese and Comparative Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legal Theory, and European Union Law.