Teng Biao is the Hauser Human Rights Scholar at Hunter College [City University of New York], and the Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on China’s criminal justice, human rights, social movements and political transition. Teng was one of the earliest promoters of the Rights Defense Movement and the New Citizens Movement in China. As a lecturer at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing, he co-founded two human rights NGOs – the Open Const