Alexandra Kaiser
Dr. Alexandra Kaiser
Lehrstuhl für Human Rights Law
91054 Erlangen
- Email: alexandra.ak.kaiser@fau.de
Alexandra obtained her doctorate in China Regional Studies and Law from the University of Cologne in 2021. Alexandra has several years of experience in academia and has studied and researched at Tamkang University in Taipei, the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Nanjing University, the Human Rights Center of Central South University in Changsha and King’s College London. Her research was funded by Academia Sinica and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, among others.
Before joining the Chair in Human Rights Law at FAU in March 2024, Alexandra worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica in Taipei. Previously, Alexandra worked as a research associate at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne (2017-2020) and as a
postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Human Rights Politics (Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach), where she coordinated a project on “Academic Freedom in the People’s Republic of China” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2021-2024).
Alexandra’s research interests include the interplay between official discourses and legal reforms, as well as the engagement of academia with such discourses in the authoritarian party state. She is interested in the illiberal shifts in the legal system and the re-ideologisation under Xi Jinping, and the promotion and codification of specifically Chinese values, against the background of the party’s stated goal of promoting a ‘socialist rule-of-law
state’. Alexandra examines specific areas of law, such as criminal justice or academic freedom, and is interested in how increased repression has affected domestic scholarship and the transnational implications of these domestic developments.
Monographs
Alexandra Kaiser, Presumption of Innocence under China’s National Conditions, Oxford: Hart (forthcoming, 2025).
Alexandra Kaiser, Einführung in die Wissenschaftsfreiheit in der Volksrepublik China – Institutionelle Autonomie und Lehr- und Forschungsfreiheit, FAU Press (ebook), 2024, available at: https://open.fau.de/items/c2ba14ea-10e0-4660-a24f-5ee40e5d58dd/full.
Book chapters and articles
Alexandra Kaiser, The shaping of authoritarian law under the “Socialist Rule of Law”: academics and obedience in the Chinese Party-state, 台灣人權學刊 (Taiwan Human Rights Journal), 2024(3), 15-42.
Alexandra Kaiser, Autoritäres Recht in Aktion. Verhaltenskodizes für chinesische Wissenschaftler*innen, Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, 2023(2), 50-68.
Alexandra Kaiser, A New Model of Habeas Corpus in China? Procuratorial Necessity Examination of Pretrial Custody, in: Björn Ahl (ed.), Post-2013 Reforms of Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 144-182.
Book reviews
Alexandra Kaiser, Academic Freedom under Siege: Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia (book review), International Journal of Asian Studies, 2022, 1-4.
Other contributions
Alexandra Kaiser (王琳蘭), 失去行動空間？習近平時代下中國學界和高等教育的新規則, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, blog post, 19 December 2024, https://www.iias.sinica.edu.tw/en/blog_post/1755.
Alexandra Kaiser, Andrey Lovakov, Kontrollierte Exzellenz – Wissenschaftsfreiheit in China aus Sicht von Forschenden unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, Forschung & Lehre, 08/2024.
Alexandra Kaiser (content) and Christopher Dillig (producer), Wissenschaftsfreiheit in China, Film 1: Hochschulautonomie, Film 2: Lehr- und Forschungsfreiheit (two short movies about academic freedom in China), April 2024, https://www.fau.tv/course/id/3881.html.
Alexandra Kaiser, Handlungsempfehlungen zu Forschungskooperationen sind ohne China-Kompetenz wertlos, opinion, China Table, 26 March 2024.
Alexandra Kaiser, Extraditions and EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation, policy brief, in: Matthieu Burnay (ed.), EUPLANT Final Report, 2022.
Alexandra Kaiser, Kein Freiheitsrecht im Sozialismus, Weltsichten, 04/2022.
Translation Chinese to German: Wang Shizhou, Das Institut der Strafbarkeitsschwelle im chinesischen Strafrecht und seine Entwicklungstendenz (with Lucas Brang), in: Daniel Leese, Michael Pawlik (ed.), Das Strafrechtssystem der Volksrepublik China, Nomos, 2019, pp. 295-322.