Haozhou Lin

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CSLS Visiting Scholar
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Haozhou Lin was an assistant research fellow at KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University before coming to CSLS. His research into day-to-day work of Chinese judiciary is prompted by the central question: why social conflicts in China seldom take the form of the law. Haozhou’s current book manuscript, tentatively called Justice in Uniform: the Birth and Rise of a Model Environmental Court in China, employs field work and extensive archival research to expose the political, institutional and cultural logic holding sway over the judiciary in China’s one-party state and its impact on the implementation of environmental law as well as on ordinary environmental victims. His next research project will look at the employment of artificial intelligence in Chinese judiciary to determine whether it has improved judicial efficiency and fairness as claimed. In his spare time, Haozhou enjoys reading Russian novels and watching Samurai films. He is a proud father of two daughters.