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Professor Eva Pils

Eva

Profile

Eva Pils is Professor of Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London, where she teaches human rights, public law, and law and society in China. She studied law, philosophy and sinology in Heidelberg, London and Beijing and holds a PhD in law from University College London. Before joining King’s in 2014, Eva was an associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. She is an affiliated scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University Law School, an external member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Social Innovation Studies, an external fellow of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and a legal action committee member of the Global Legal Action Network.

Research

Publications

Eva Pils’ scholarship focuses on human rights, authoritarianism, and law in China. Her recent publications include:

  • Human rights in China: a social practice in the shadows of authoritarianism, Polity, Cambridge, 2018 (Monograph);
  • China's Human Rights Lawyers: Advocacy and Resistance, Routledge, Abingdon, 2014 (Monograph);
  • Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2013. Co-edited with Mike McConville;
  • Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2012. Co-edited with Fu Hualing and Jean-Philippe Béja;
  • ‘Asking the Tiger for His Skin: Rights Activism in China,’ Fordham International Law Journal (2007) vol XXX 1209 -1287; and
  • Resisting Dignity Takings in China,’ Law & Social Inquiry, (2016) vol. 41 issue 3, 888-916.
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