Dr. Ping Yu

Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Ping Yu was a senior research fellow at the U.S-Asia Law Institute for 10 years and is a leading specialist on China’s criminal procedure. He joined NYU School of Law in 2000, after having worked as a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York from 1998-2000.   At OSI, Dr. Yu analyzed the impact of China’s 1996-1997 criminal justice reforms on defendant’s rights.  Dr. Yu’s research at NYU focused on reforms to China’s death penalty review procedures and a comparative analysis of death penalty trials and appeals in the U.S. and China.

Dr. Yu is a 1985 graduate of East China Institute of Politics and Law in Shanghai, where he received his LL.B. in Law. In 1987, he was awarded a Graduate Diploma in Law from Fudan University in Shanghai. He continued his studies at the University of Washington School of Law where he received his LL.M in 1994 and a Ph.D in Asian and Comparative Law in 2006.