Zhu Suli

Zhu Suli (Chinese: 朱苏力; born April 1, 1955) is a Chinese legal scholar, jurist, and educator. Born in Hefei, Anhui, with ancestral roots in Dongtai, Jiangsu, he is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Peking University Law School.

Zhu's research focuses on jurisprudence, sociology of law, law and economics, and social institutions. He has been influential in promoting empirical and interdisciplinary approaches within Chinese legal studies. His representative works include Rule of Law and Its Local Resources, How Institutions Are Formed, Sending Law to the Countryside, and Reading Order.^[1]

Zhu entered the Department of Law at Peking University in 1978 and received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1982. He subsequently pursued graduate studies in the history of Chinese legal thought at Peking University. In 1985, he went to the United States for further study and attended the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he studied American commercial and tax law. He later enrolled at Arizona State University, earning LL.M., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in law.^[2]

After returning to China in 1992, Zhu joined the faculty of the Department of Law at Peking University. He successively served as lecturer, associate professor, professor, and doctoral supervisor.^[3] In 1999, he became chairman of the Academic Committee of the Peking University Law School and a member of the university Academic Committee, while also serving as vice dean of the law school.^[4]

From 2001 to 2010, Zhu served as dean of the Peking University Law School. During his tenure, he played an important role in advancing interdisciplinary legal research and reforming legal education in China. He also served as a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Yale University.^[5]