Lei Chen is Chair of Comparative Law, Lee Kai Hung Chair of Chinese Politics, and Director of the Manchester China Institute, at the University of Manchester, UK. He was elected as a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts and a Fellow of the European Law Institute. Professor Chen is Adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and former director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law in Hong Kong. He teaches at Renmin University Tsinghua University and holds a visiting Wenlan Chair at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan and a Visiting Chair at Shandong University, China.