Wang Yunqing

WANG Yunqing 王云清

 

wyq_law@163.com

 

Associate Professor of Law School, Xiamen University

Researcher of Social Governance and Soft Law Center, Xiamen University

 

Areas of Expertise:

Legal Theory of Anglo-American, Methods of Legal interpretation and Legal Reasoning, Cognitive Jurisprudence

 

Doctor WANG works in the field of legal theory of Anglo-American and legal methodology. He has published some paper in top law review, which focus on statutory interpretation methods used by judges. From August 2015 he has been enrolled into Social Governance and Soft Law Center. Being interested in what has been call ‘cognitive jurisprudence’, he is now trying to bring the insight of cognitive psychology into law and understand how judges really think not only in ordinary cases but also in hard cases.

 

Courses taught:

Jurisprudence, Introduction to Law and Legal theory

 

Scholarship (2000-present)

Articles:

  1. GUO Chun-zhen and WANG Yun-qing, Right Rhetoric as Legal Pragmatism: Based on Active Jurisprudence in a ‘Hard case’, Law and Social Development, 2012, vol. 18,  4, pp. 96~106.

  2. CHEN Lin-lin and WANG Yun-qing, Book Review: Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, Social Science Abroad, 2013, vol. 6, pp. 61-69.

  3. WANG Yun-qing, De-theorize Statutory Interpretation and a Way out: The insight from Cognitive Psychology, Science of Law(Northwest University of Politics and Law), 2014, vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 35~43.

  4. CHEN Lin-lin and WANG Yun-qing, The Use of Dictionary Definition in Judgments, Chinese Journal of Law, 2015, vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 3~18.