Unchained Watchdog: How China’s Supervision Commission Escapes Legal Bounds

Fairbank Center Critical Issues Confronting China Series

Jeremy Daum
Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow
Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Moderator:
William Alford
Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law
Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program

Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative legal reform projects. His principal research focus is criminal procedure law, with a particular emphasis on the protection of vulnerable populations such as juveniles and the mentally ill in the criminal justice system. He is also an authority on China’s “social credit system.” Jeremy has spoken about these issues at universities throughout China and the United States and has co-authored a book on U.S. capital punishment jurisprudence for Chinese readers. He is the founder and contributing editor of the collaborative translation and commentary site Chinalawtranslate.com, dedicated to improving mutual understanding between legal professionals in China and abroad.

Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.