Contact Information: Tel: (852) 2696 1114 Fax: (852) 2994 2505 Email: evapils@cuhk.edu.hk Office: Room 306, 3 rd Floor, Faculty of Law Mong Man Wai Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Professor Eva Pils 艾華

Education

• Referendar Exam in Law (Germany)
• Assessor Exam in Law (Germany)
• LL.M. (London)
• Ph.D. (London)

Awards, Qualifications and Admissions

• Cornell University School of Law, Clarke Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, 2006
• New York University School of Law, Global Research Fellow, 2004/2005
• Diploma, EU-China Legal and Judicial Co-operation Programme, 2003
• DAAD scholarship for doctoral studies, 2001-2004
• Admission to Bar in Germany, 2000

• Chinese Law
• Legal and Political Philosophy
• Human Rights
• Comparative Law

Research Projects

• Member, American Bar Association project group on access to justice, led by Professor Yash Ghai
  (see http://www.abanet.org/wjp/scholarship.html)

• Co-Investigator, ongoing research project ‘Barometer of China’s Development’ (CERG; principal investigator: Pierre Landry)

Representative Publications

• ‘Peasants’ Struggle for Land in China’, draft (May 2008) available at
  http://americanbarfoundation.org/research/World_Justice_Project0/Papers__Group_on_Access_to_Justice.html.
• ‘China’s Troubled Legal Profession’, Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2008.
• Jerome A Cohen and Eva Pils, ‘Hu Jia in China’s Legal Labyrinth’, Far Eastern Economic Review, April 2008.
• Leila Choukroune and Eva Pils, ‘Les nouveaux avocats de la defense’, Hommes & Libertes no. 142 (Avril/Mai/Juin 2008) 30.
• ‘The persistent memory of historic injustice in China: a discussion of recent demands for “reappraisal,”’ China Perspectives no 4/2007 99.
  (French version: ‘Le souvenir tenace des injustices historiques en Chine: une analyse des demandes de “reevaluation”,’ Perspectives Chinoises no 4/2007 104).
• ‘Asking the Tiger For His Skin: Rights Activism in China’ 30 (2007) Fordham International Law Journal 1209-1287.
• ‘Citizens? The Legal and Political Status of Peasants and Peasant Migrant Workers in China,’ in Liu Xiangmin (editor), Zhidu, fazhan yu hexie [System, Development, and Harmony] (Ming Pao Press, Hong Kong: 2007), 173-243; draft available at
  http://uschinalawsociety.org/symposium/papers/postconference/pdf/Eva.Pils.eng.pdf .
• ‘Land Disputes, Rights Assertion and Social Unrest: a Case from Sichuan’, 19 (2006) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 365; reprinted as Hauser Global Law School Working Paper 07/05; draft available at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/GLWP_0705.htm.
• ‘Analytical theories of equality and freedom: why they are inadequate’ (2000) UCL Jurisprudence Review 212-233.

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