About Ruiping Ye

Dr Ruiping Ye is a lecturer in law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a visiting scholar at the SOAS China Institute. She researches in the areas of Chinese law and property law, and has published, inter ilia, on the Chinese legal tradition and the transformation of indigenous land tenure in Taiwan, the Chinese Socialist rule of law, and the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement. A current focus of her research is the interface between the legal systems of China and New Zealand, in particular extradition to China and Chinese legal culture in New Zealand courts. Dr Ye was qualified to practise law in China and is an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.