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Prof. Xu is currently the Dean of the Law School of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (ZUEL), also a professor, and doctoral tutor. He is a member of the Central Committee of China Democratic League, representative of Hubei Provincial People's Congress, and deputy director of the Social Construction Committee of Hubei Provincial People's Congress. He has served as a member of the Academic Committee of Hunan University, professor and doctoral tutor at the Law School of Hunan University, dean of the Roman Law Research Center, and executive director of the China Environmental Law Research Society. Prof. Xu has been awarded the title of “Top Ten Young and Middle-aged Jurists in Hubei Province”. He has been selected as the academic leader of the Civil and Commercial Law of universities in Hunan Province and the “100 Talents” Program of Hunan Youth Social Science Research. In 2014, he was nominated as “The Seventh National Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists”.
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⊙Work Experience：
| Zhongnan Institute of Political Science and Law (ZIPL) | Executive Director | |
| Law School of ZUEL | Dean, professor, doctoral tutor |
⊙Educational Background
| ZIPL | Bachelor’s degree in international economic law, and Master’s degree in civil and commercial law | |
| Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | Doctor’s degree in civil and commercial law |
⊙Awards & Honors
In May 2006, “Young and Middle-aged Jurists in Hubei Province”;
1999-2000, Outstanding Youth from the Central South University of Political Science and Law;
In 2000, Excellent Member of National League for Democracy in Hubei Province;
In 2002, the 9th “Jun He Lawyer Talent Award”;
Excellence Award of the 2nd ZUEL Youth Teacher Teaching Contest;
1998-2002, consecutively rated as Excellent in teachers’ assessment of ZIPL and ZUEL;
In 2008, the publication of “Causal Theoretical Study” evaluated by the ninth Philosophy and Social Science Evaluation Committee of Hunan province and awarded the 2nd prize of Hunan Province’s outstanding works in philosophy and social sciences;
In 2014, nominated as “The Seventh National Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists”.
⊙Research Results
Historical Changes of Contract Concepts and their Interpretation (Journal of Legal Studies, No. 2, 2004). The author made an attempt to reflect on the research methods and paradigms of private law history. By means of historical evidence and knowledge archaeology, he pointed out that under the cover of homographs, contract concepts have a fundamental break in meaning which may be the dual contract explanation mode that includes Chinese type contract and modern European and American type contract.
The Teleological Interpretation of the Theory of Abstraktionsprinzip (Journal of China Law, No. 2, 2005), which explains the theory of Abstraktionsprinzip in a teleological approach, justifies the advancement of this approach by revealing the internal connections and meaning of the external system of civil law, and critically reflects the prevalence of functionalism in Chinese academic circles in this field.
Research on the Causal Theory (China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2005), which from the perspective of legal culture explores the origin of the causal theory and systematically fills the gaps in Chinese civil law in respect of this theory. The traditional theory of “determinism of will”, as the explanatory mode of the validity of contract (or legal act), lacks of ethical legitimacy, while the causal theory that carries the judgment of ethical values can solve the above problem and eradicate the contradictions in the design of specific systems.
⊙Main Works
Legal Guarantee Mechanism for Bank Commercialization
China Economic Publishing House, 1995 edition
Market, Order, Law-- Research on Several Hot Issues in Market Economy
China Commercial Publishing House, 1995 edition
General Theory of Competition Law
China Procuratorial Press, 1996 edition
Civil Code of the Republic of Chile
Jinqiao Culture Publishing (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., 2002 edition
Lectures on Hot Issues in Property Law
China Legal Publishing House, 2007 edition; ISBN:780226849
Research on Causal Theory: an Explanatory Mode about the Validity of Contract
China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2005 edition; ISBN:756202749
The Newest Civil Code of the Republic of Argentina
China Law Book Co., Ltd., 2007 edition; ISBN:750366972
