SIDA LIU 刘思达 劉思達 Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong 10/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Phone: +852 39177043; E-mail: liusida@hku.hk EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D., Department of Sociology, 2009 A.M., Department of Sociology, 2004 Peking University LL.B., Law School, 2002 ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2022-Present. Professor of Law and Sociology, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong 2023-2025. Professor of Sociology, Law, and Global Affairs (on leave), University of Toronto 2019-2023. Associate Professor of Sociology, Law, and Global Affairs, University of Toronto 2018-2019. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto 2016-2019. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto 2016-2017. Member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) 2009-2016. Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison JOINT AND VISITING POSITIONS 2023-Present. Senior Fellow, Centre on Contemporary China and the World, The University of Hong Kong 2019-Present. Vice President, China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2017-Present. Faculty Affiliate, Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School 2015-Present. Affiliated Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University 2012-Present. Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation 2016-2018. Public Intellectual Program (PIP) Fellow, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations 2010-2013. Research Fellow, Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School 2012. Dean’s Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University Law Center 2008-2009. Research Associate, American Bar Foundation 2007-2008. Doctoral Fellow, American Bar Foundation 2006-2007. Visiting Scholar, China University of Political Science and Law 2004-2006. Research Assistant, American Bar Foundation REFEREED PUBLICATIONS In English: Books Chua, Lynette J., David M. Engel, and Sida Liu. 2023. The Asian Law and Society Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2016. Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal Articles Liu, Sida, Anson Au, and Pamela P. Tsui, 2024. “Crisis as Opportunity: Legal Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” Law & Society Review 58(3), forthcoming in September 2024. Yao, Yao, and Sida Liu. 2024. “Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-Based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, first published online on June 24, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12825 Liu, Sida, and Gihad Nasr. 2024. “On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships.” Symbolic Interaction, first published online on June 7, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.712 Liu, Sida, Yun Xian, and Sitao Li. 2024. “China’s Pragmatic Approach to International Human Rights Law.” UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law 9: 101-131. Liu, Sida, and Sitao Li. 2024. “Rights in China: Myths, Abuses, and Politics.” Annual Review of Sociology 50: 737-755. Liu, Sida. 2024. “Social Spaces: From Georg Simmel to Erving Goffman.” Journal of Chinese Sociology 11: 13. Liu, Sida, and Sitao Li. 2023. “How to Do Empirical Legal Studies without Numbers?” Hong Kong Law Journal 53(3): 1261-1275. Liu, Sida. 2023. “Legal Elites and the Fading History of Global Legal Imperialism.” Law & Social Inquiry 48(2): 693-698. Liu, Sida. 2022. “The Decline of Two Forces in Chinese Law and Governance.” Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 10(1): 118-127. Wang, Juan, and Sida Liu. 2022. “Institutional Proximity and Judicial Corruption: A Spatial Approach.” Governance 35(2): 633-649. Liu, Sida, Daniel Blocq, Ali Honari, and Anson Au. 2022. “Professional Flows: Lateral Moves of Law Firm Partners in Hong Kong, 1994-2018.” Journal of Professions and Organization 9(1): 1-19. Wang, Di, and Sida Liu. 2021. “Doing Ethnography on Social Media: A Methodological Guide to the Study of Online Groups in China.” Qualitative Inquiry 27(8-9): 977-987. Halliday, Terence C., and Sida Liu. 2021. “Dignity Discourses in Struggles for Basic Legal Freedoms in China.” Asian Journal of Law and Society 8(1): 134-150. Erie, Matthew S., and Sida Liu. 2021. “The Forms and Architects of China’s International Legal Order.” Yale Journal of International Law 46: 47-71. Liu, Sida. 2021. “Between Social Spaces.” European Journal of Social Theory 24(1): 123139. Liu, Sida. 2020. “Cage for the Birds: On the Social Transformation of Chinese Law, 19992019.” China Law and Society Review 5(2): 66-87. Liu, Sida. 2020. “Professional Impurities.” Research in the Sociology of Work 34: 147-167. Liu, Sida, and Anson Au. 2020. “The Gateway to Global China: Hong Kong and the Future of Chinese Law Firms.” Wisconsin International Law Journal 37: 308-349. Wang, Di, and Sida Liu. 2020. “Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China.” Law & Social Inquiry 45(3): 678-705. Zhu, Jingqi, Yang Zhao, and Sida Liu. 2020. “Inside the ‘Red Circle’: The Production of China’s Corporate Legal Elite.” Journal of Professions and Organization 7(1): 87-100. Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2019. “The Ecology of Activism: Professional Mobilization as a Spatial Process.” Canadian Review of Sociology 56(4): 452-471. Wang, Juan, and Sida Liu. 2019. “Ordering Power under the Party: A Relational Approach to Law and Politics in China.” Asian Journal of Law and Society 6(1): 1-18. Liu, Sida, Ching-Fang Hsu, and Terence C. Halliday. 2019. “Law as a Sword, Law as a Shield: Politically Liberal Lawyers and the Rule of Law in China.” China Perspectives 2019(1): 65-73. Liu, Sida. 2018. “Boundaries and Professions: Toward a Processual Theory of Action.” Journal of Professions and Organization 5(1): 45-57. Liu, Sida. 2017. “Overlapping Ecologies: Professions and Development in the Rise of Legal Services in China.” Sociology of Development 3(3): 212-231. McMorrow, Judith A., Sida Liu, and Benjamin van Rooij. 2017. “Lawyer Discipline in an Authoritarian Regime: Empirical Insights from Zhejiang Province, China.” Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 30: 267-300. Zheng, Chunyan, Jiahui Ai, and Sida Liu. 2017. “The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts.” Law & Society Review 51(1): 168-199. Wang, Zhizhou, Sida Liu, and Xueyao Li. 2017. “Internationalizing Chinese Legal Education in the Early Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Legal Education 66(2): 237-266. Liu, Sida, and Hongqi Wu. 2016. “The Ecology of Organizational Growth: Chinese Law Firms in the Age of Globalization.” American Journal of Sociology 122(3): 798-837. Liu, Sida, David M. Trubek, and David B. Wilkins. 2016. “Mapping the Ecology of China’s Corporate Legal Sector: Globalization and Its Impact on Lawyers and Society.” Asian Journal of Law and Society 3(2): 273-297. Liu, Sida, and Mustafa Emirbayer. 2016. “Field and Ecology.” Sociological Theory 34(1): 62-79. Liu, Sida, and Zhizhou Wang. 2015. “The Fall and Rise of Law and Social Science in China.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 11: 373-394. Wang, Cheng-Tong Lir, Sida Liu, and Terence C. Halliday. 2015. “Advocates, Experts, and Suspects: Three Images of Lawyers in Chinese Media Reports.” International Journal of the Legal Profession 21(2): 195-212. Liu, Sida. 2015. “Law’s Social Forms: A Powerless Approach to the Sociology of Law.” Law & Social Inquiry 40(1): 1-28. Liu, Sida. 2015. “Boundary Work and Exchange: The Formation of a Professional Service Market.” Symbolic Interaction 38(1): 1-21. Liu, Sida, Lily Liang, and Ethan Michelson. 2014. “Migration and Social Structure: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers.” Law & Policy 36(2): 165-194. Liu, Sida, Lily Liang, and Terence C. Halliday. 2014. “The Trial of Li Zhuang: Chinese Lawyers’ Collective Action against Populism.” Asian Journal of Law and Society 1(1): 79-97. Liu, Sida. 2013. “The Legal Profession as a Social Process: A Theory on Lawyers and Globalization.” Law & Social Inquiry 38(3): 670-693. Liu, Sida. 2012. “Palace Wars over Professional Regulation: In-House Counsel in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises.” Wisconsin Law Review 2012: 549-571. Li, Xueyao, and Sida Liu. 2012. “The Learning Process of Globalization: How Chinese Law Firms Survived the Financial Crisis.” Fordham Law Review 80: 2847-2866. Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2011. “Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness: Understanding Politics in the Work of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers.” Law & Society Review 45(4): 831-865. Liu, Sida. 2011. “Lawyers, State Officials, and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market.” China Quarterly 206: 276-293. Leheny, David, and Sida Liu. 2010. “The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 6: 239-258. Liu, Sida, and Terence C. Halliday. 2009. “Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China’s Criminal Procedure Law.” Law & Social Inquiry 34(4): 911-950. Liu, Sida. 2008. “Globalization as Boundary-Blurring: International and Local Law Firms in China’s Corporate Law Market.” Law & Society Review 42(4): 771-804. Liu, Sida. 2006. “Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism: The Work of Elite Corporate Lawyers in China.” Law & Society Review 40(4): 751-782. Liu, Sida. 2006. “Beyond Global Convergence: Conflicts of Legitimacy in a Chinese Lower Court.” Law & Social Inquiry 31(1): 75-106. Book Chapters Liu, Sida. 2022. “Between Rules and Power: Finding a Place for Lawyers in the Sociology of Professions.” Pp. 445-459 in Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Vol. 2, eds. R. L. Abel, O. Hammerslev, H. Sommerlad, and U. Schultz. Oxford: Hart Publishing. Cornelius, Eduardo, and Sida Liu. 2021. “Law in Classical Sociological Theory: Coercion, Ideology, and Change.” Pp. 367-380 in Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory, eds. Seth Abrutyn and Omar Lizardo. Switzerland: Springer. Liu, Sida. 2020. “China: A Tale of Four Decades.” Pp. 697-711 in Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Vol. 1, National Reports, eds. R. L. Abel, O. Hammerslev, H. Sommerlad, and U. Schultz. Oxford: Hart Publishing. Liang, Lily, and Sida Liu. 2018. “Beyond the Manifesto: Mustafa Emirbayer and Relational Sociology.” Pp. 395-411 in Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology, ed. F. Depelteau. London: Palgrave Mcmillan. Liu, Sida. 2016. “The Changing Roles of Lawyers in China: State Bureaucrats, Market Brokers, and Political Activists.” Pp. 180-197 in The New Legal Realism: Studying Law Globally (Vol. 2), eds. H. Klug and S. E. Merry. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Liu, Sida. 2011. “With or Without the Law: The Changing Meaning of Ordinary Legal Work in China, 1979-2003.” Pp. 234-266 in Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China, eds. M. Y. K. Woo, M. E. Gallagher, and M. Goldman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Michelson, Ethan, and Sida Liu. 2010. “What Do Chinese Lawyers Want? Political Values and Legal Practice.” Pp. 310-333 in China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation, ed. C. Li. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. Halliday, Terence C., and Sida Liu. 2007. “Birth of a Liberal Moment? Looking through a One-Way Mirror at Lawyers’ Defense of Criminal Defendants in China.” Pp. 65-107 in Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism, eds. T. C. Halliday, L. Karpik, and M. M. Feeley. Oxford: Hart Publishing. In Chinese: Books 刘思达， 《法社会学信札》，北京：北京大学出版社，2024 年版。[Liu, Sida. 2024. Letters on Sociology of Law. Beijing: Peking University Press.] 刘思达：《割据的逻辑：中国法律服务市场的生态分析（增订本）》，南京：译林出 版社，2017 年版。[Liu, Sida. 2017. The Logic of Fragmentation: An Ecological Analysis of the Chinese Legal Services Market (Revised Edition). Nanjing: Yilin Press.] 刘思达：《割据的逻辑：中国法律服务市场的生态分析》，上海：上海三联书店， 2011 年版。[Liu, Sida. 2011. The Logic of Fragmentation: An Ecological Analysis of the Chinese Legal Services Market. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Co.] 刘思达：《失落的城邦：当代中国法律职业变迁》，北京：北京大学出版社，2008 年 版。[Liu, Sida. 2008. The Lost Polis: Transformation of the Legal Profession in Contemporary China. Beijing: Peking University Press.] Journal Articles 刘思达：《社会空间：从齐美尔到戈夫曼》，《社会学研究》2023 年第 4 期，第 142159 页。[Liu, Sida. 2023. “Social Spaces: From Georg Simmel to Erving Goffman.” Sociological Studies 2023(4): 142-159.] 刘思达：《二十年目睹北美社会学之怪现状》，《北大社会学刊》2023 年第 1 辑，第 211-228 页。[Liu, Sida. 2023. “Witnessing the Strange Conditions of North American Sociology in Twenty Years.” Peking University Journal of Sociology 2023(1): 211-228.] 刘思达：《新发展格局下的当代中国职业研究——从劳动分工到专业技能》，《中国 社会科学》2023 年第 4 期，第 63-82 页。[Liu, Sida. 2023. “Research on Contemporary Chinese Professions under the New Development Pattern: From the Division of Labor to Professional Skills.” Social Sciences in China 2023(4): 63-82.] 刘思达：《如何戒掉布迪厄？》，《清华社会科学》第 4 卷第 1 辑（2022 年），第 173-181 页。[Liu, Sida. 2022. “How to Quit Bourdieu?” Tsinghua Social Sciences 4(1): 173-181.] 刘思达：《浅谈法律社会学的三种叙事方式：以新冠肺炎疫情为例》，《中国法律评 论》2021 年第 2 期，第 80-87 页。[Liu, Sida. 2021. “On the Three Narratives of the Sociology of Law: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” China Law Review 2021(2): 80-87.] 刘思达、陈利：《社会的形状与社会学的美》，《清华社会学评论》第 14 辑（2020 年），第 177-190 页。[Liu, Sida, and Li Chen. 2020. “The Shape of Society and the Beauty of Sociology.” Tsinghua Sociological Review 14: 177-190.] 王伦刚、刘思达：《基层法院审判委员会压力案件决策的实证研究》，《法学研究》 2017 年第 1 期，第 80-99 页。[Wang, Lungang, and Sida Liu. 2017. “An Empirical Study on How the Adjudication Committee in Basic-Level Courts Makes Decisions on Cases with External Pressure.” Chinese Journal of Law 2017(1): 80-99.] 王伦刚、刘思达：《从实体追责到程序之治：中国法院错案追究制运行的实证考 察》，《法学家》2016 年第 2 期，第 27-40 页。[Wang, Lungang, and Sida Liu. 2016. “From Substantive Responsibility to the Rule of Procedure: An Empirical Study of the Operation of the Wrongful Case Responsibility System in China.” The Jurist 2016(2): 27-40.] 刘思达：《美国“法律与社会运动”的兴起与批判：兼议中国社科法学的未来走向》， 《交大法学》2016 年第 1 期，第 20-33 页。[Liu, Sida. 2016. “The Rise and Critique of the ‘Law and Society Movement’ in the United States: On the Future Directions of Law and Social Sciences in China.” SJTU Law Review 2016(1): 20-33.] 刘思达：《中国法律的形状》，《中外法学》2014 年第 4 期，第 1024-1044 页。[Liu, Sida. 2014. “The Shape of Chinese Law.” Peking University Law Journal 2014(4): 10241044.] 刘思达：《法律职业的政治命运》，《交大法学》2013 年第 1 期，第 93-100 页。 [Liu, Sida. 2013. “The Political Fate of the Legal Profession.” SJTU Law Review 2013(1): 93-100.] 刘思达：《中国法律社会学的历史与反思》，《法律和社会科学》第 7 卷（2010 年），第 25-37 页。[Liu, Sida. 2010. “The History and Reflection of the Sociology of Law in China.” Law and Social Sciences 7: 25-37.] 刘思达、吴洪淇：《法律边疆地区的纠纷解决与职业系统》，《社会学研究》2010 年 第 1 期，第 130-156 页。[Liu, Sida, and Hongqi Wu. 2010. “Dispute Resolution and the System of Professions in the Frontier of the Legal Services Market.” Sociological Studies 2010(1): 130-156.] 刘思达：《法律职业研究的死与生》，《社会理论》第 5 期（2009 年），第 1-16 页。[Liu, Sida, 2009. “The Death and Life of Research on the Legal Profession.” Social Theory 5: 1-16.] 刘思达：《立法、实践与政治过程：谈“冤案”与律师刑事辩护难的成因》，《清华法 治论衡》第 10 辑（2008 年），第 73-89 页。[Liu, Sida, 2008. “Lawmaking, Practice, and the Political Process: On ‘Wrong Cases’ and the Origins of Lawyers’ Difficulties in Criminal Defense.” Tsinghua Journal of Rule of Law 10: 73-89.] 刘思达：《当代中国日常法律工作的意涵变迁（1979-2003）》，《中国社会科学》 2007 年第 2 期，第 90-105 页。[Liu, Sida. 2007. “The Changing Meaning of Ordinary Legal Work in China (1979-2003).” Social Sciences in China 2007(2): 90-105.] 刘思达：《职业自主性与国家干预：西方职业社会学研究述评》，《社会学研究》 2006 年第 1 期，第 197-224 页。[Liu, Sida. 2006. “Professional Autonomy and State Intervention: A Review of the Sociology of Professions in the Western Countries.” Sociological Studies 2006(1): 197-224.] 刘思达：《分化的律师业与职业主义的建构》，《中外法学》2005 年第 4 期，第 400414 页。[Liu, Sida. 2005. “The Differentiated Legal Profession and the Construction of Professionalism.” Peking University Law Journal 2005(4): 400-414.] 刘思达：《法律移植与合法性冲突：现代性语境下的中国基层司法》，《社会学研 究》2005 年第 3 期，第 20-51 页。[Liu, Sida. 2005. “Legal Transplants and the Conflicts of Legitimacy: Chinese Grassroots Judicial Practice in the Context of Modernity.” Sociological Studies 2005(3): 20-51.] NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS In English: Book Chapters Liu, Sida, and Di Wang. 2021. “Censorship: State Control of Expression.” Pp. 86-89 in Routledge Handbook of Law and Society, eds. M. Valverde, K. M. Clarke, E. DarianSmith, and P. Kotiswaran. London, Routledge. Liu, Sida, and Gihad Nasr. 2019. “Lawyers in Authoritarian Regimes.” Oxford Bibliography in Political Science, ed. S. Maisel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Liu, Sida. 2014. “Foreword 2014.” The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors, and Others, eds. R. Dingwall and P. Lewis. New Orleans, LA: Quid Pro Books. Liu, Sida. 2014. “Professional Ecologies.” Pp. 1892-1895 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, eds. W. C. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, and S. R. Quah. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Book Reviews Liu, Sida. 2023. Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China. By Ke Li. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Asian Journal of Law and Society 10(1): 147-149. Liu, Sida. 2022. Divorce in China: Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes. By Xin He. New York: New York University Press. Hong Kong Law Journal 52(2): 785-787. Liu, Sida. 2022. Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation, and their Interactions. By Weixia Gu. London: Routledge. Social & Legal Studies 31(5): 796-798. Liu, Sida. 2022. Chicago Sociology. By Jean-Michel Chapoulie. New York: Columbia University Press. Contemporary Sociology 51(1): 39-41. Liu, Sida. 2020. The Construction of Guilt: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. By Yu Mou. Oxford: Hart. Social & Legal Studies 30(3): 492-494. Liu, Sida. 2018. Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms. By Shitong Qiao. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Asian Journal of Law and Society 5(2): 467-484. Liu, Sida. 2018. Justice: The China Experience, Edited by Flora Sapio, Susan Trevaskes, Sarah Biddulph, Elisa Nesossi. Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation, Edited by Yun Zhao and Michael Ng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. China Quarterly 235: 884-886. Liu, Sida. 2014. Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence. By Rachel E. Stern. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Law & Society Review 48(4): 989-991. Liu, Sida. 2014. Chinese Criminal Trials: A Comprehensive Empirical Inquiry. By Ni He. New York: Springer. Crime, Law and Social Change 62(1): 87-89. Liu, Sida. 2011. Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China. By Martin K. Whyte. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Contemporary Sociology 40(3): 357-358. Liu, Sida. 2009. China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? By Randall Peerenboom. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Pacific Affairs 82(2): 322323. In Chinese: Books 刘思达：《霍姆斯读本：论文与公共演讲选集》，上海：上海三联书店，2009 年版 （译著）。[Liu, Sida. 2009. The Holmes Reader: Selected Essays and Public Speeches of Justice Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Co. (Translation)] Book Chapters 刘思达：《经典社会理论中的法律：马克思、涂尔干、韦伯与法律社会学》，收于 《社会理论之法：解读与评析》，高鸿钧、马剑银（编），北京：清华大学出版 社，2006 年版，第 381-403 页。[Liu, Sida. 2006. “Law in Classical Social Theory: Marx, Durkheim, Weber and the Sociology of Law.” Pp. 381-403 in Law in Social Theory: Interpretations and Comments, eds. Gao Hongjun and Ma Jianyin. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.] Book Reviews 刘思达：《法律帝国主义的末日之歌》，《读书》，2023 年第 2 期，第 12-20 页。 [Liu, Sida. 2023. “The Doomsday Song of Legal Imperialism.” Dushu 2023(2): 12-20.] 刘思达：《流不动的现代性》，《读书》，2021 年第 2 期，第 76-82 页。[Liu, Sida. 2021. “Not-So-Liquid Modernity.” Dushu 2021(2): 76-82.] MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS “Mobility Spaces: Geographical and Professional Distances in Career Development.” Revise and Resubmit paper. (Sida Liu and Anson Au) “Against Digital Superstition: On the Pseudoscientific Development of Sociology of Law in China.” Under review. “Suzhi: Distinction and Discrimination in a Rapidly Changing China.” Manuscript in progress. (Lily Liang and Sida Liu) “The City and the North: Canada in the Chicago School of Sociology.” Manuscript in progress. (Sida Liu and Gihad Nasr) “Time as Violence.” Manuscript in progress. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2022-2025. HKU-100 Scholar Award, The University of Hong Kong. 2023-2025. Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff, The University of Hong Kong. (declined) 2018-2024. Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. ($170,259 CAD, Principal Investigator) 2020. Winner, Distinguished Article Award, Asian Law & Society Association. (“Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China.”) 2018. Runner-up, Best Paper Award, Journal of Professions and Organization. (“Boundaries and Professions: Toward a Processual Theory of Action.”) 2018. Research and Scholarly Activity Fund, University of Toronto Mississauga. ($10,000 CAD, Principal Investigator) 2017-2019. Research Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. ($20,834 USD, Principal Investigator) 2017. East Asian Law & Society Section Paper Award, Association of American Law Schools. (“Lawyer Discipline in an Authoritarian Regime: Empirical Insights from Zhejiang Province, China.”) 2017. Honorary Mention, Distinguished Book Award, Asian Law & Society Association. (Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work.) 2016-2018. Public Intellectual Program (PIP) Fellow, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. 2016-2017. Membership, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ). 2016. Honorable Mention, Law & Society Association Article Prize. (“Law’s Social Forms: A Powerless Approach to the Sociology of Law.”) 2014-2018. Research Grant, American Bar Foundation. ($128,910 USD, Co-Principal Investigator with Terence C. Halliday) 2013. Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Member of the Faculty, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2012-2013. Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. (declined) 2010-2011. Research Grant, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ($30,465 USD, Principal Investigator) 2009-2014. Research Grant, National Science Foundation. (SES-0850432, $190,539 USD, Co-Principal Investigator with Terence C. Halliday) 2008-2012. Research Grant, American Bar Foundation. ($136,808 USD, Co-Principal Investigator with Terence C. Halliday) 2008-2009. Robert E. Park Lectureship, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. 2008. Hetlage Prize for Doctoral Fellows, American Bar Foundation. 2008. Outstanding Article Award, Peking University Law Journal, Peking University. (《分 化的律师业与职业主义的建构》[“The Differentiated Legal Profession and the Construction of Professionalism.”]) 2007-2008. Mellon Foundation/Social Sciences Dissertation-Year Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the University of Chicago. 2007-2008. Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, American Bar Foundation. 2007. Travel Grant, International Research Collaborative (IRC), Law & Society Association. 2006-2007. Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. 2006. OYCF-Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow Teaching Fellowship, Overseas Young Chinese Forum. 2006. Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago. 2004. Small Grant Award, Urban China Research Network, State University of New York at Albany. 2002-2006. Graduate Fellowship, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago. TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Hong Kong (2023-present): Introduction to Chinese Legal System (LLAW2009) The Legal Profession (LLAW3278) Law and Society in China (LLAW6308/JDOC6308) Human Rights: History, Theory, and Politics (LLAW6068) University of Toronto (2017-2022): Introduction to Sociology (SOC100, UTM) Sociology of Law (SOC216, UTM) Law and Social Theory (SOC325, UTM) The Legal Profession (SOC357, UTM) Sociology of Organizations (SOC361, UTM) Research Project in Criminology, Law and Society (SOC440, UTM) Sociology of Law and Lawyers (SOC475, UTM) Contemporary Sociological Theory (SOC6101, graduate) Sociology of Law (SOC6106/6306, graduate) Law, Politics and Globalization (SOC6406, graduate) Special Topics: The Legal Profession (CRIM3340, graduate) University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009-2016): Contemporary Chinese Society (Sociology 225/East Asian Studies 301) The Legal Profession (Sociology/Legal Studies 415) Sociology of Law (Sociology/Legal Studies/Law 641) Sociology of Occupations and Professions (Sociology 643) Socio-Legal Studies (Sociology 930, graduate) Peking University (Summer 2021): Professions and Modern Society (undergraduate, guest lecturer) University of Chicago (Winter 2009): Professions in Modern Society (Soci 28041, lecturer) China University of Political Science and Law (Fall 2006): Research on the Legal Profession (graduate, guest lecturer) RECENT INVITED TALKS (2022-2024) 2024. “On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships.” Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, March 8, 2024. Hangzhou, China. 2023. “The Internationalization Journey of Chinese Law Firms.” Peking University School of Transnational Law. November 21, 2023. Shenzhen, China. 2023. “Disenchantment from the Superstition of Numbers: On the Pseudoscientific Nature of Law and Social Science.” Yunnan University Law School, November 3, 2023. Kunming, China. 2023. “Raising Questions and Telling Stories: On the Narratives of Sociology of Law.” Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School, November 1, 2023. Hangzhou, China. 2023. “The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers and the Future of Law Graduates.” Zhejiang University Guanghua Law School, October 31, 2023. Hangzhou, China. 2023. “China’s Pragmatic Approach to International Human Rights Law.” University of British Columbia, September 28, 2023. Vancouver, Canada. 2023. “The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers and the Future of Law Graduates.” Jilin University Law School, September 15, 2023. Changchun, China. 2023. “Treating Fieldwork Seriously: Underground and Online Legal Ethnography.” Law and Anthropology Seminar, July 13, 2023. (virtual talk) 2023. “The Legal Profession’s Spatial Mobility.” Seminar on Law and Politics, Tsinghua University, June 29, 2023. Beijing, China. 2023. “Crisis as Opportunity: Professional Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April 13, 2023. Hong Kong, China. 2023. “Discovering Sociology of Law from Life and Field.” Beihang University Law School, April 6, 2023. Beijing, China. 2023. “Raising Questions and Telling Stories: On the Narratives of Sociology of Law.” China Institute for Socio-Legal Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, March 30, 2023. Shanghai, China. 2023. “Crisis as Opportunity: Professional Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” Yale-NUS College, March 8, 2023. Singapore. 2023. “On Drifting Apart.” Department of Sociology, University of Macau, February 27, 2023. Macau, China. 2022. “Crisis as Opportunity: Professional Career Paths at Historical Turning Points.” Department of Sociology, University of Macau, May 25, 2022. (virtual talk) 2022. “The Social Spaces of Law.” Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking University, May 14, 2022. (virtual talk) 2022. “Institutional Proximity and Judicial Corruption: A Spatial Approach.” Centre for Chinese Law, The University of Hong Kong, March 18, 2022. (virtual talk) 2022. “Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-Based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services.” Long U.S.-China Institute, University of California, Irvine, February 24, 2022. (virtual talk) 2022. “Where Rookies Prevail: Digital Habitus and Age-Based Earnings Differentials in Online Legal Services.” Contemporary China Research Cluster Public Lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, February 18, 2022. (virtual talk) RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2022-2024) 2024. “Discipline and Supervision: The Political Logic of Chinese Law.” European China Law Studies Association (ECLS) 2024 Annual Conference, September 19-21, 2024. Hong Kong, China. 2024. “Crisis as Opportunity: Legal Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” American Sociological Association 119th Annual Meeting, August 9-13, 2024. Montreal, Canada. 2023. “Out of Their Lanes? The Political Engagement of Professional Associations in Hong Kong.” Asian Law and Society Association 2023 Annual Meeting, December 15-16, 2023. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2023. “The City and the North: Canada in the Chicago School of Sociology.” American Sociological Association 118th Annual Meeting, August 17-21, 2023. Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. 2023. “Crisis as Opportunity: Legal Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” Law & Society Association 59th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2023. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2023. “Crisis as Opportunity: Legal Career Paths at Two Historical Turning Points in Hong Kong.” Canadian Law & Society Association 2023 Annual Conference, May 27-29, 2023. Toronto, Canada. 2023. “How to Do Empirical Legal Studies without Numbers?” The Empirical Turn in Chinese Legal Research: Challenges, Strategies, and Solutions, Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law, The University of Hong Kong, January 9-10, 2023. Hong Kong, China. 2022. “Suzhi: Distinction and Discrimination in a Rapidly Changing China.” American Sociological Association 117th Annual Meeting, August 6-9, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. (with Lily Liang) 2022. “On Drifting Apart.” Canadian Sociological Association 2022 Annual Conference, May 16-20, 2022. (with Gihad Nasr, virtual presentation) UNIVERSITY SERVICE The University of Hong Kong: 2024-Present. Associate Dean of Taught Postgraduate Programmes Development, Faculty of Law 2024-2026. Promotion and Tenure Panel, Faculty of Law 2024-2026. Faculty Curriculum Development Committee, Faculty of Law 2023-2025. China Affairs Committee, Faculty of Law 2023-2025. LL.B. Admissions Committee, Faculty of Law 2023-2024. Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law 2023-2024. Teaching Resources Committee, Faculty of Law University of Toronto: 2021-2022. Acting Director, Global Taiwan Initiative, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy 2021-2022. Area Head, Sociology of Crime and Law, Graduate Department of Sociology 2021-2022. Graduate Admissions Committee, Graduate Department of Sociology 2019-2022. University of Toronto Mississauga Research Council 2019-2022. Faculty Review Committees, UTM Department of Sociology 2020-2021. Faculty Search Committee, University College 2020-2021. Dean’s Representative in Faculty Search, UTM 2019-2020. Chair Search Committee, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies 2018-2019. Faculty Interviewer, National Scholarship Program 2017-2019. Graduate Admissions Committee, Graduate Department of Sociology 2017-2019. Faculty Search Committees, UTM Department of Sociology 2017-2019. Faculty Co-Lead, Critical China Studies Workshop, Jackman Humanities Institute 2017-2018. Criminology, Law and Society Program Curriculum Committee, UTM Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison: 2014-2016. Interim Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center, Law School 2014-2016. Graduate Admissions Committee, Development Studies Program 2014-2015. Evaluation and Improvement of Instruction Committee, Department of Sociology 2014-2015. Undergraduate Awards Committee, Department of Sociology 2014. China Task Force, the Provost’s Office 2013-2014. Undergraduate Program Planning Committee, Department of Sociology 2011-2014. Faculty Senator 2012-2013. Review Committee, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarships, Center for East Asian Studies 2011-2013. Social Committee, Department of Sociology 2010-2011. Faculty Senator (Alternate) 2009-2011. Publicity Committee, Department of Sociology 2009-2010. Review Committee, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarships, Center for East Asian Studies OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2022-Present. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Professions and Organization 2022-Present. Editorial Board Member, Social Sciences 2020-Present. Editorial Board Member, The American Sociologist 2018-Present. Editor-in-Chief, China Law and Society Review 2014-Present. Editorial Board Member, Asian Journal of Law and Society 2024-2026. President-Elect, Asian Law & Society Association 2020-2025. Editorial Board Member, Law & Society Review 2022-2023. Chair, Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association 2022-2023. Chair, Membership Committee, Asian Law & Society Association 2021-2023. Board of Trustees, Asian Law & Society Association 2020-2023. Editorial Board Member, Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019-2023. International Editorial Board Member, Law in Context 2017-2023. Board of Directors, Consortium for Undergraduate Law & Justice Programs 2020-2022. Communications Director, Consortium for Undergraduate Law & Justice Programs 2020-2022. Foreign Correspondent, Sociologia del diritto 2016-2022. Associate Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology 2021. Academic Assessor, Australian Academy of the Humanities 2018-2021. Member, Governance Committee, Law & Society Association 2018-2021. Member, Book Prize Committee, Canadian Law & Society Association 2015-2021. Editorial Board Member, Communication and the Public 2018-2020. Editorial Board Member, Sociological Theory 2017-2020. Board Member, Canadian Law & Society Association 2017-2020. Board of Trustees, Law & Society Association 2019. Distinguished Book Award Committee, Asian Law & Society Association 2018-2019. Member, Junior Scholars Workshop Committee, Law & Society Association 2018-2019. Member, International Activities Committee, Law & Society Association 2017-2019. Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology 2016-2018. Board of Trustees, Asian Law & Society Association 2017-2018. Program Committee, 2018 Joint Annual Meeting, Law & Society Association and Canadian Law & Society Association 2017-2018. Nominations Committee, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association 2015-2018. Associate Editor, China Law and Society Review 2015-2017. Secretary-Treasurer, Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association 2015-2017. Chair, International Activities Committee, Law & Society Association 2016. Confidential Nominator, John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress 2014-2016. Editorial Board Member, Law & Social Inquiry 2014-2015. Distinguished Article Award Committee, Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association 2014-2015. Book Review Editor Search Committee, Law & Society Association 2012-2015. Board of Trustees, Law & Society Association 2013-2014. Nominations Committee, Section on Sociology of Law, American Sociological Association 2011-2013. Deputy Director, Law & Society Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School 2011-2012. Dissertation Prize Committee, Law & Society Association 2009-2010. Executive Editor for 《法律和社会科学》[Law and Social Sciences] (Vol. 7) Journal manuscript reviewer for: American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Asian Journal of Law and Society, Asian Pacific Law Review, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, British Journal of Sociology, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Canadian Review of Sociology, China Information, China Journal, China Quarterly, China Review, China: An International Journal, Chinese Sociological Review, Cities, Comparative Political Studies, Crime, Law and Social Change, European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Human Relations, Hong Kong Law Journal, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Historical Sociology, Journal of Law and Courts, Journal of Professions and Organization, Justice Quarterly, Laboratorium, Law & Policy, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, Organization Studies, Pacific Affairs, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Political Behavior, Professions and Professionalism, Regulation & Governance, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Health & Illness, Symbolic Interaction, Theory and Society, Tilburg Law Review, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, Work and Occupations, Yale Law Journal, 《中国社会科学》[Social Science in China], 《社 会学研究》[Sociological Studies], 《法学研究》[Chinese Journal of Law], 《法学 家》[The Jurist], 《交大法学》[SJTU Law Review], 《当代法学》[Contemporary Law Review] Book manuscript/proposal reviewer for: Amsterdam University Press, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Polity, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, University of California Press Grant proposal reviewer for: European Research Council, Israel Science Foundation, National Research Foundation of South Africa, National Science Foundation (U.S.A.), ROC Ministry of Education (Taiwan), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Swiss National Science Foundation Association memberships: American Sociological Association Asian Law & Society Association Canadian Law & Society Association International Association of Legal Ethics International Sociological Association Law & Society Association