Professor Kang Yumei is an associate professor at the Law School of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) and serves as the Director of the Jurisprudence Teaching and Research Division. She earned her Ph.D. in Law from Peking University.
She earned a double Bachelor's degree in Management and Law from Wuhan University. She then pursued graduate studies at Peking University, where she received her Master of Laws and Ph.D. in Law (Jurisprudence). She also participated in a joint Ph.D. program at Columbia University in the City of New York.
She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tsinghua University School of Law, specializing in Constitutional and Administrative Law with a focus on the Basic Laws of Hong Kong and Macao. She later became a Leslie Wright Foundation Research Fellow and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Basic Law at the Centre for Chinese Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong.
Fields of Interests
Jurisprudence, Legislation Studies, Basic Laws of Hong Kong and Macao, Constitutional and Administrative Law.
Publications
1.“The Executive Order System of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region,” Hong Kong Law Journal, Vol. 52, Part 3, 2022 (SSCI).
2.“On the Executive Order System in the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region,” Macau Law Review, No. 2, 2023.
3.“National Education and National Identity in Hong Kong under ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Challenges, Reflections, and Pathways,” Global Law Review, No. 2, 2018.
4.“The Executive Order System in the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Origins, Evolution, and Reflections,” Peking University Law Journal, No. 4, 2018.
5.“What to Do with Hong Kong in 2047: Continuity and Change in ‘One Country, Two Systems’,” Contemporary Hong Kong and Macao Studies, No. 4, 2018.
Project
1.Principal Investigator of the postdoctoral research project “Legal Effectiveness of Executive Orders: Based on Article 48(4) of the Hong Kong Basic Law,” funded by the Basic Law Committee of the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
2.Principal Investigator of the project “Institutional and Mechanism Research on the Accountability of the Chief Executive to the Central Government” (JBF 2019 No. 06), commissioned by the Ministry of Education and the Basic Law Committee of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (November 2019 – October 2021).
3.Major Co-Investigator (sub-project leader) of the National Social Science Fund Major Project “Research on Implementing the Central Government’s Comprehensive Jurisdiction over Special Administrative Regions” (Project No. 22ZDA124) (May 2022 – present).
4.Principal Investigator of the project “Research on National Identity in Hong Kong: Perspectives on National Education Before and After the Hong Kong National Security Law” (Project No. BJSY2303), Beijing Institute of Socialism (Beijing United Front Theory Research Base) (March 2023 – November 2023).