Xu Xianming (Chinese: 徐显明; pinyin: Xú Xiǎnmíng; born April 12, 1957) is a Chinese lawyer who is considered China's leading authority on human rights law.
[2] He entered Jilin University in 1978 and obtained first a bachelors (1982) and then a master's degree (1985) in law.
He continued his studies at Wuhan University,[3] where he was also awarded a doctoral degree in 1999.
[2] Internationally, he has served as Chinese Chairman of the World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and Chinese Chairman of the China-United States Joint Commission on Legal Education.
Besides human rights, topics of Xu Xianming's research include legal trends in contemporary China, the Chinese Communist Party's legal doctrines, and principles for the rule of law.