LING LI
(Li Ling)
Communist Chine, faced with massive corruption by local Communist Party officials and an ever more knowing and angry public, had created and given enforcement teeth to a national anti-corruption program.
Ling LI is a visiting professor of Chinese history and law from October 2015 at the University of Vienna. She obtained her doctoral degree from Leiden University Law School in the Netherlands in 2010. Prior to her PhD study, she taught various courses on Chinese law at the Northwest University of Political Science and Law in China. Between 2010 and 2015, she worked as a senior research fellow at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law and remains as a non-resident fellow of the same institute. She has done extensive research on corruption in China and the Chinese political legal institutions. Her current research interest is contemporary Chinese politics and law, especially the rules of the Chinese Communist Party as an institution.
