Xi Lin (Ph.D. in Political Science), is a professor and assistant Dean of the Fudan Institute of Advanced Study in Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan). He received his doctoral degree from the London School of Economics. He is also the associate Editor-in-Chief of the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and was a former member of Higher Education Academy (UK). His main research areas include theories of justice, and the tradition of equity and justice in imperial China. He is the author of Emotions and Politics in Human Society (2012), Rethinking Chinese Jurisprudence and Exploring Its Future (2014), and a dozen of research papers.