Zhuo Zeyuan

Zhuo was born in Yun-tai Town, Changshou District, Chongqing. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in his early career. In 1980, he was admitted to the Department of Law at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, graduating in 1984 and remaining at the university as a faculty member. He completed a Master of Laws degree in jurisprudence at the same institution in 1990. In June 2000, he received a Doctor of Laws degree in legal theory from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.^[2]

Zhuo advanced rapidly through the academic ranks at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, becoming a lecturer in 1991, associate professor in 1993, and full professor in 1995. From 1999 to 2003, he served as a member of the university's standing committee of the Communist Party and as vice president of the university, concurrently acting as editor-in-chief of the journal Modern Law Science.^[3]

In October 2003, Zhuo was transferred to the Central Party School, where he served in the Department of Political and Legal Affairs and later as its director. He became a core member of the state-sponsored Marxism Theory Research and Development Project in the discipline of law.^[4] He has delivered lectures at collective study sessions of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party in 2006 and 2011, addressing issues related to scientific governance, democratic governance, and the rule of law. In 2013, he was appointed on a temporary basis as deputy director of the Judicial Reform Office of the Supreme People's Court.^[5]

Zhuo currently serves as Vice President of Education at the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance). He is also vice president of the China Association for Legal Education Research and vice president of the Dong Biwu Legal Thought Research Association under the China Law Society.^[6] In May 2023, he was appointed as a full-time distinguished professor at Guangzhou University.^[7]