Education
He was an associate professor in China University of Political Science and Law from 1985 to 1995, then become a professor and Doctor of Philosophy adviser at Peking University.
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He was an associate professor in China University of Political Science and Law from 1985 to 1995, then become a professor and Doctor of Philosophy adviser at Peking University.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Southwest University of Political Science & Law, and an Master of Laws at Peking College of Political Science and Law (former China University of Political Science and Law). Since 1992, he has striven to reform the Chinese judicial system. He has written many papers on the importance of modernizing China"s judicial system, earning him the nickname "Justice He".
Because of his public support and signing for Liu Xiaobo"s Charter 08, He Weifang was removed from its position in Peking University and was exiled to remote Shihezi in Xinjiang.
In 2008 he had accepted a job offer to be the dean of the law school of Zhejiang University. The Communist Party of China had forced the school to withdraw the job offer, then offered He a position at Shihezi.
On October 6, 2010 Professor He Weifang gave a speech at Stockholm University, concerning reform of Chinese Court Organization Law and freedom of speech.
He resigned from his position in Peking University because he had grown a distaste to the politics present in Beijing. Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China"s Communist Rulers, said that this was "a deliberately humiliating transfer, akin to a Harvard Law School professor being reassigned to a small community college in rural Texas" and that the party had "nailed" He "with a little more subtlety.".