Teng Biao is a human rights lawyer and Hauser Human Rights Scholar at the City University of New York. He had been Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, and a lecturer at the China University of Politics and Law (Beijing). His research focuses on China’s criminal justice, human rights, social movements, political transition, and transnational repression. He co-founded…
Teng Biao is a human rights lawyer and Hauser Human Rights Scholar at the City University of New York. He had been Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, and a lecturer at the China University of Politics and Law (Beijing). His research focuses on China’s criminal justice, human rights, social movements, political transition, and transnational repression. He co-founded two human rights NGOs in Beijing – the Open Constitution Initiative, and China Against the Death Penalty, in 2003 and 2010. Teng has received various international human rights awards including the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic (2007) and the NED’s Democracy Award (2008). He is completing books on China’s human rights movement and Beijing’s threat to international freedom.
