Stéphanie Balme
Research Fellow Sciences Po
stephanie.balme@sciences-po.fr, stephanie.balme@gmail.com
Permanently based in Bejing since 2006

Head of the Sciences Po research group "Justice, Law and Society in China", visiting Professor at the Tsinghua University School of Law (Beijing), China Delegate for Civil Law Initiative, Teacher at the China-EU School of Law based in Beijing and vice-president of the French-Chinese Legal Study and Research Association.
-Ph.D. (Sciences Po), various MA degrees and post-graduate studies from Sciences Po, the French School of Oriental Studies, Fudan University in Shanghai and the Faculty of Humanities in Bordeaux ; in addition to a specialized education in Chinese Law obtained in Hong Kong in 2004. Affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Service Center for China Studies (2003-2006), former co-chairman with Christopher Goscha (UQAM) of the CERI study group on contemporary Vietnam.
-Regular consultant for international organizations, fluent in English and in Chinese (mandarin), she participates to various training programs in China.

Teaching
- China’s Legal and judicial Systems, Introduction to Chinese Law
- Comparative Constitutional Law; Constitutional Justice: comparative theory and practice
- Comparative European judicial systems; Sociology of law
- Chinese Politics

Research interests
- Chinese Law and judiciary
- China’s governance
- Constitutionalism, Rule of Law building process and constitutional justice
- Technocratization of public administration
- (Post) socialist regimes in Asia, in particular post-Mao China and post-Doi Moi Viêt nam


Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • What do you know about Law? (你对法律了解多少？) with Judge Wang Yaqin, an introduction of China’s legal and judicial systems for local children, 2009, 60 p.
  • Building Constitutionalism in China, avec Michael Dowdle (eds.),  Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2009.
  • Chine/Etats-Unis: Fascinations et Rivalités (US/China Relations from a European Perspective, with a focus on cultural and legal issues), with Daniel Sabbagh, Autrement-CERI, 2008.
  • La Chine. Idées Reçues,  Edition Cavalier Bleu, collection, Paris, 2004, 140p. (2nde édition 2008).
  • Vietnam’s New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Law Reform in Vietnam, avec Mark Sidel (dir.), Palgrave-Macmillan CERI, 2006.
  • Entre soi, l’élite du pouvoir dans la Chine contemporaine, Fayard, coll. L’espace du politique, Paris, 2004, 474p.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • "Ordinary Justice and Popular Constitutionalism in China", 2009, in Balme, Dowdle (eds.), Palgrave, 2009.
  • -"Constitutionality of European Law: the case of France「欧洲法的宪法性: 以法国为例」", Tsinghua Law Review (in Chinese).
  • Sciences Po in China Working Papers, 2008 : "当代法国的司法制度：特点与概况", Le système judiciaire français: son histoire et ses défis actuels", Stéphanie Balme.
  • "Hong Kong, la Chine et la démocratie", avec Richard Balme, Critique Internationale (CERI), autumn 2005, n° 29, 25p.
  • "The judicialization of politics and the politicisation of the judiciary in China (1978-2005)", The global jurist Frontiers, vol 5, n° 1, (Berkeley electronic law review )
  • "Processus d’élaboration du contrôle de constitutionnalité : expériences croisées en France et en Chine" (in Chinese), " Revue d’Administration Publique, Université de Tsinghua, Avril 2005, 10 p.
  • "Communisme et schizophrénie : l'individu face au droit dans la société chinoise post-révolutionnaire", Raisons Politiques, numéro spécial: "Ce qui reste du communisme", automne 2001.
  • "D'une société de liens à une société de règles? Loi, légalité et construction du politique dans la Chine post-réformiste", Raisons Politiques, n°3, mars 2000.
  • "State, Party and market in China: Chinese politics facing the Asian crisis", ", International political science review (IPSR), numéro special : State and Market, juillet 1999, Vol. 20, pp.285-306.
Contributions to edited volumes
  • "China: Law and Society", in Mireille Demas-Marty et P.-E Will, China and Democracy, 2010.
  • "Rural Governance in China", study for the OECD, December 2008.
  • "Local Courts in Gansu and Shaanxi: quest for independence and dignity", in Randall Peerenboom, Judicial Independence in China, Cambridge University Press.
  • "Introduction to Chinese constitutional and political systems", Comparative Political Science Manual, La Découverte, 2009
  • "Droit et politique en Chine après Mao", in Mireille Demas-Marty et P.-E Will, La Chine et la démocratie, Fayard, 2007.
  • "China under Jiang Zemin (1997-2002): institutional change as (or without ?) political reform" in China's New Political Trends, Centre Asie IFRI, septembre 2003, Paris.
  • "La Chine depuis Mao : le refus de la démocratie par (et pour) le droit", in Javier Santiso (dir.), A la recherche de la démocratie. Mélanges offerts à Guy Hermet, Karthala, Paris, 2002.
Other
  • Contribution to a major study on Food Safety in the PRC for the European Union delegation in Beijing, August 2008.
  • Study and Evaluation of Chinese NGOs and legal clinics on Labor Law, December 2007.
  • "Judicial independence in China at the local level", paper for the Oxford Conference, December 2007, Paris- ENM.
  • "Reforming the French Judicial System: lessons for China» (in Chinese), for the Association of the Judges of Shaanxi high courts, June 2007.
  • Building the Rule of Law in China, Tokyo, Maison franco-japonaise, 2008.
  • "法治与欧洲一体化"，(in Chinese）, Rule of Law and European Integration, Chongqing University, Nov.15 2008.
  • "The legal Journey to Abolish the Death Penalty in France and its societal impact", Beijing, 31 October 2008.
  • "L’Etat de droit en Chine, les dynamiques du changement", Beijing, Oct.7.
    -"Engaging Law, Engaging Society in pre-Olympic China" Asia Centre, June 2008.
  • "China Rule of Law developments: Top-down versus Bottom-up Politics across three decades of reforms", June 9 2008, Maison Franco-Japonaise in Tokyo.
  • "The Chinese Judiciary in Transition", (S. Balme), Beijing International Study", Beijing 
  • "Constitutionality of European Law: the case of France「欧洲法的宪法性: 以法国为例」", Beijing June2008.
  • "Ordinary Justice in China: Sending the Rule of Law to the Countryside" 普通的公正在中国: "送法治下乡", CLD Beijing, March 2008.
  • Aquarelles Exhibition of the children law book, Centre Culturel Francais Beijing, January 2008 January 2008.
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