Bio
Guangxing Zhu is an associate professor of criminal law at the School of Criminal Justice at China University of Political Science and Law. She holds an LL.B degree (Northwest University of Politics and Law, China) and a Master’s degree in Criminal Law (China University of Political Science and Law). In July 2018, she obtained her Ph.D. in Criminal Law at Tilburg University (the Netherlands), where she was a researcher at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (Intervict). Her Ph.D. thesis is a multidisciplinary study of age of consent in Europe and China. In September 2023, she was promoted to be associate professor of Criminal Law.
Her research interests include Chinese Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, Criminology, Legal Sociology, Sexual Offence, Gender-based Legal Issue, Vulnerable Victims and Children Rights within the criminal trial. She has gained a lot of research experience in the field of child sexual offence, gender-based legal issues and comparative criminal law. She is serving as reviewer of several SSCI Journals.
Contact Information
Email: z.guangxing@cupl.edu.cn
Expertise
Chinese Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law, Criminology, Legal Sociology, Sexual Offence, Childhood Study, Gender-based Legal Issue, Vulnerable Victims
Courses
Chinese Criminal Law (BA)
Criminal Law Case Studies (BA)
Criminal Law Seminar (BA)
International Criminal Law (MA).
Comparative Criminal Law (MA)
Academic Publications
1. Guangxing Zhu (2023), European Legislators’ Attitudes Toward Childhood Sexuality from the Perspective of Age of Consent Legislation. European Journal of Criminology, 20(4), 1309-1330,
2.Guangxing Zhu and Alice Kirsten Bosma (2019), Early Sexual Initiation in Europe and Its Relationship with the Legal Change: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice (57), 70-82.
3. Guangxing Zhu (2019). Book review: Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law. International Review of Victimology, 25(1), 135–137.
4. Guangxing Zhu (2018) A Comparison of the Age of Consent Legislation in England and China, in Bosma, A.K. & Buisman, S. S. (Eds), Methoden van onderzoek in het strafrecht, de criminologie en de victimologie, p.137-150. Deventer, NL: Kluwer. (ISBN: 9789013150056)
5. Guangxing Zhu and Suzan van der Aa (2017), A Comparison of the Age of Consent Legislation in Europe and China: Gender-specific, or Gender-neutral? European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 23(4), 523-537.
6. Guangxing Zhu and Suzan van der Aa (2017), Trends of Age of Consent Legislation in Europe. New Journal of European Criminal Law 8(1), 14-42
7. Book: Age of consent legislation in Europe and China: A cross-jurisdictional perspective, published by Maklu Publishers，in August, 2022.
8. (In Chinese) A reflection of the Chinese age of consent legislation after the 11th Criminal Law Amendment, 2022 (3), Global Law Review
9. (In Chinese) Study on online child molestation from the perspective of child protection, 2022(4), Journal of China University of Political Science and Law
10. (In Chinese) How to regulate faculty-student romantic relationship in Chinese Universities, 2023(4), Journal of Zhejiang Gongshang University;
11. (In Chinese) Criticism and reflection on the legal characterization of sexual abuse of boys, 2021(5), Research on Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency.
Other Publications
Column articles for Chinese legal newspaper called Legalweekly and other famous medium including Thepaper; Ifeng News and the Sixthtone.
