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Abstract        

Dr. Wenjuan Zhang’s presentation will focus on some key issues pertaining the present state of civil society in China. In China, how does civil society development look like? What are the challenges and opportunities for civil society development? What are the special challenges faced by lawyer-based organizations? What is the Zhicheng model? Why is Zhicheng strategy comparatively more effective in promoting social change as well as maintaining and creating civil society space?  

About the Speaker

Wenjuan Zhang is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for International Collaborations of Jindal Global Law School. She is also leading the Center for India-China Studies of the Jindal Global University. Before joining the Jindal Global Law School, she had been a well-respected public interest lawyer in China for over nine years. She served as Vice Director of Zhicheng Public Interest Lawyers, the biggest public interest law organization in China, and Deputy Director of Beijing Children’s Legal Aid and Research Center. She got her LLM degree from Columbia Law School in 2014 and Juris Master Degree from Peking University Law School in 2004. She was a visiting scholar of Yale Law School in 2012 and of Columbia Law School in 2006-2007. She has her Marc Haas fellowship with the Brennan Center for Justice in 2015 and her PILNET fellowship in 2006-2007. Her research focus is child law, lawyering for change and civil society development.