Curriculum Vitae – Hongjun Ma

· Professor of Law

Education:

1985: Graduated from China University of Politics Science and Law and awarded LLB

2010: Visiting scholar ,University of Sydney in Australia

Teaching Career:

1985: Graduated from CUPL and commenced teaching

1996: Associate professor

2002: Appointed as Director of the Institute for Legal Ethics

2005: Professor

2005: Elected as committee member of the Academic Committee of the Law School,

2009: Elected as committee member of the Degree Committee of the Law School

Currently: Teaching the following courses: Notary and Legal Practice; Legal Writing; Legal Ethics; Sports Law.

Scholarship achievements:

Main research fields are:

1. theory and practice of Notarial and Legal Practice;

2. Legal Writing, and

3. Sports Law

4. Legal Ethics

Textbooks

1. First Author of the following books:

· International Practice of China Legal Practice;

· New Edited Legal Practice Science;

· Lawyer’s Ideology and Methodology of Case-dealing;

· How to Co-operate with the Notary Organization;

· Legal Writing Science;

· Legal Writing and Judicial Reform.

2. a co-editor of the following books:

· Legal Language;

· Notary and Legal Practice;

· System and Practice of Legal Practice and Notary;

· Summary of Legal Professional Rules;

· Teaching Procedure of Legal Writing;

· Theory and Practice for the Civil Notary;

· Researching Key Theoretic Problems for Reforming the Lawyers Act;

· International Comparative Law Issues and Research Theory concerning the China Notary System.

3. the sole author of the following books:

· Professional Rules for Legal Practitioners;

· Legal drafting

4. Scholar essays written and published:

I have written more than 80 essays in total which have been published in the following academic publications:

· China Justice;

· Tribune of Political Science and Law;

· Jurist Review;

· Law Review;

· Journal of Chinese Academy of Social Science;

· Legal Daily;

· Peking University Law Journal;

· China Lawyer;

· China Notary;

· Legal Service Times;

· Journal of Korea Sports Law Academic Association;

· Sports Science Journal;

· Journal of Beijing Sport University;

· Sports Culture Guide;

· Journal of Capital Sports College, etc.

· The essay entitled ‘On Legal Liabilities of Notary’ published on the International Seminar of Notary and Economy Development was translated into 8 languages and elected into the law essay collections by the Legal Publisher of China.

· The essays entitled ‘On Legal Liabilities of Sports’ and ‘Beijing Olympic and Legal Education’ were adopted by National Sports Bureau and the 29th Olympic Organizing Committee.

5. Specific Publications of interest to foreign readers

(a) Sports Law

the author of the following 18 books and articles on Sports Law:

1. “The Legal Framework of China’s Sport Industry Development”, South Korean Sports Law Society Journal 2001 issue 2 (8,000 words)

2. “ ‘Corrupt’ Judges; they can still ‘corrupt’ for a long time”, 2002 China and Foreign Legal Systems part 1 (3,000 words)

3. “On Sports Law Liability”, November 2002 National sports Legal System-Building Workshops (6,000 words); “Sports Culture Guide” 2003 (4 reprints)

4. “From Fan Zhi Yi a lost opportunity to see action in the application of the law:, Legal Daily discussion sections, March 6, 2003 (3,000 words)

5. “The Beijing Olympics and the Rule of Law”, September 28 2003, BOCOG, THE Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, organized by the Olympic Education Discussion Group (6,000 words)

6. “On Outdoor Clubs’ Legal Requirements”, 2004 China and Foreign Legal Systems, part 4 (11,000 words)

7. “Legal and Policy Research on the Revitalization of China’s Sports Industry”, International symposium on the Blue (?) World Series”, organized by the Associatoin for Korean National Sports Law following the 2002 World Cup, South Korea Press, December 2004, ISBN: ISSN 1598-527X (8,000 words)

8. “On the Legal Status of Sports Agents”, Journal of Capital Institute of Physical Education, 2005 part 1 (7,000 characters)

9. “Civil Liability Issues in Sports Infringement”, 2005 Sports Science issue 6 (12,000 words)

10. “The relationship between Sports Law and Sport Qualifications (?)”, 2005 Beijing University Journal of Physical Education issue 9 (9,000 words)

11. “The Power of Sport to Self-Regulate (?)”, co-author, Republic of Korea Blue World Series Publishing Company, November 2005, published in Asian Sports Law Society Proceedings (12,000 words)

12. “The Relationship between Chinese Sport Arbitration and the Arbitration System”, September 2006 China Law Society Sports Law Research Institute seminar, “Sytems for Sport Arbitration” (8,000 words)

13. “Building a Sport Arbitration System”, co-author, contained in Eleventh Five-Year Period – China’s Sports Development and Reform”, in “Eleventh five-Year China Sports Development Strategy Study Series”, Beijing Sports University Press, January 2007.

14. “The Social Security System and Chinese Athletes”, delivered at the International Symposium Proceedings on Anti-Doping and Athlete Job Security, published in October 2007 by the South Korea Blue World Publishing Company (10,000 words)

15. “The Legal Relationship between Sports Clubs and Athletes”, Asian Sports Law Society and China Law Society Sports Law Research Institute 2007 Annual Conference Proceedings; published in 2008 by the China University of Politics and Law under the title “Legal Systems and Olympic Harmony” (8,000 words)

16. “The Post-Olympic Period in Chinese Sports Law”, 14th World Sports Law Conference Proceedings, Athens, Greece (more than 30 countries, including Australia, participated), November 2008

17. “Olympic Sports Sponsorship Contracts and the Legal Protection of Rights”, co-author, Sports Law of China Research Institute Conference, 27 – 29 November 2008 collected papaers, p. 157, Annual Asian Sports Law Societies International Symposium

18. “The Origin, Status and Development of China’s Sports Lottery”, South Korean Sports Law Society International Symposium, 2009

(b) Books and Articles about legal writing

author or editor of the following:

1. “Study of Legal Documents”, China University of Politics and Law Press, October 2001 (editor)

2. “Legal Drafting, Writing and Training”, Renmin University Press, August 2005 (2nd ed., 2009)

3. Legal Drafting and Writing”, Renmin University Press, June 2007

4. “Drafting Legal Instruments”, Beijing University Press, August 2008 (sole author; 386,000 words)

5. “Value of Legal Instruments”, Chinese Procuratorate Press, February 2009

contributed the following articles:

1. “Legal Writing and Legislative Drafting – the Verdict as Starting Point” 2008 China Law Society Legal Writing Association Annual Conference

2. “Effective Referral of Proceedings to a Referee”, “People’s Justice”, Issue 15, 2008

3. “’The Breeze is Blowing in Chunzao’ – Discussing Effective Legal Writing” 1st and 2nd vols., “Chinese Law”, 2009, No 5.

contributed to the following publications:

1. “Legal Instrument Drafting”, China University of Politics and Law, March 2003 (I contributed chapters 8 and 9 totalling

2. “Legal Instrument Tutorial”, Legal Press, 2008 (Zhou Daoluan, editor); I contributed chapter 12

(c) Participation in the following Research Projects

have participated in a number of China-wide research projects as well as international conferences in all areas in which I carry out research. The main ones are:

· ‘Study on the Reformation of Notary System’ (the Justice Ministry/main member);

· ‘Study on the Norms and Rules of Outdoor Sports’ (National Sports Bureau/sole researcher);

· ‘Key Theoretic Problem Researching of Reformation of Lawyer Act’ (the Justice Ministry/2004 Construction of Rule of Law and Legal Science ministry-level project/president);

· ‘The Value of Legal Writing’ (the Justice Ministry/2006 Construction of Rule of Law and Legal Science ministry-level project/main member);

· ‘Comparative Study on Sports Law’ (National Sports Bureau/2006 Social Science of Sports of National Sports Bureau/sole researcher);

· ‘System and Frame of Legal Professional Ethics’ (CUPL/sole researcher);

· The Construction of elite course on Legal Writing.

· 5 attendances at the International Seminar held by the Korea Sports Law Association and presentation of papers.

In addition,

· attended a number of international conferences on legal research on sport (most recently Athens 2009) and hold the position of deputy vice president of the China Sports Law Association;

· assisted the Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies of the University of Sydney (CAPLUS) to organize a trilingual conference (English/Chinese/French) with the China Law Society Writing Research Association;

· planned annual conferences since 2007 for the China Law Society Writing Reseaarch Association to which overseas speakers have been invited (an example is Judge J Gibson, who was invited to speak at the annual conference in 2007). I am the Foundation President of the China Law Society Legal Writing Association;

· participated in conferences in France with the Notary Association of France (the next such conference will take place in March 2010) for exchange of information and research of a comparative law nature concerning the role of notaries in France and China. The Notary Law in China is largely based on French notary legislation. I am the president of the China Notary Association.

Legal Professional Career:

1988:

· Passed the Bar Examination and licensed to practice as a lawyer;

1993 to date:

· Practising certificate for practice as a legal practitioner amended to permit practice part-time (due to lecturing commitments);

Specialty in litigation fields:

My main fields of practice have included:

· Administrative law applications by government employees;

· Standing in restitution cases;

· Legal writing;

· Negotiation, ADR and general civil litigation in the following kinds of cases:

· Applications by government employees of an administrative law nature;

· Medical negligence and accident litigation;

· Labor dispute and industrial arbitration claims;

· Sporting compensation cases;

· Notary dispute cases;

· Corporation establishment and reconstruction cases;

· Capital combination cases;

· International contact negotiation cases.

Social positions or activities:

· Member of Scholarship Committee of Law School of CUPL;

· Professor of Legal Ethics Unit;

· Supervisor Professor of master degree graduates;

· Director of Research Centre of Notary Law;

· Associate Chief of Research Centre of Sports Law;

· President of Legal Writing Research Academy of China Law Society;

· Bench of Sports Law Research Academy of China Law Society;

· Bench of China Notary Association;

· Member of Expert Counsel Team of the Ministry of Justice on the Revision of Lawyer Law;

· Guest on CCTV’s “Legal Report” programme;

· Member of Accredited Experts Committee, Beijing Justice Bureau;

· Lawyer, Hongfanguangzhu Law firm;

· Arbitrator, Arbitration Committee for Personnel disputes, Haidian District, Beijing;

· Arbitrator, China Football Association

In addition, I have participated in a number of public education projects such as explanation for the CCTV programs of Legal Report and Law Online, teaching courses for judges and notaries, and lectures and moot courts for court and procuratorate members.