Chinese Studies Teaching Staff
Dr Robert Weatherley
Contact Information
Email: robert.weatherley@mills-reeve.com
Tel: 01223 222338
Current Position
Dr Robert Weatherley is a lawyer with the national law firm Mills & Reeve and heads the firm's China Group. He is a member of the China Law Council, a joint committee of the Law Society and the Bar Council. He lectures on Chinese politics on a number of the undergraduate and post-graduate courses at AMES.
Biographical Details, Research Interests and Publications
Robert completed his PhD in Chinese politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne funded by the Konishi Foundation Fellowship. As an undergraduate Robert studied Chinese at the People's University in Beijing (1991-92) and part of his doctoral research was spent at Nankai University in Tianjin (1995-96).
Robert is author of The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives (Macmillan, 1999), Politics in China Since 1949: Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule (Routledge, 2006) and Mao's Forgotten Successor: The Political Career of Hua Guofeng (Palgrave, 2010). Robert is currently working on his fourth book, entitled Making China Strong: The Role of Nationalism in Chinese Thinking on Democracy and Human Rights (under contract with Palgrave).
Robert has written a number of academic articles on Chinese politics for journals such as Democratization, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication and The Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. He has also written academic articles on North Korean human rights thinking and Chinese intellectual property law and its impact on Sino-European trade relations.
