Webinar | The Twentieth Party Congress in Review

About this Webinar

Last month, the Chinese Communist Party held its Twentieth Party Congress. Every five years, almost 2300 delegates meet to select a new leadership, to approve a new Constitution, and to endorse the Work Report of the General Secretary. If you’ve not encountered a Congress before, imagine a presidential election, a constitutional convention, and a state-of-the-union address all taking place at the same time.

This webinar brings together an international panel of scholars of Chinese politics and constitutional law to review these changes, and to explain what happened. This event will be run by UCL Laws with the cooperation of the Great Britain China Centre and the Oxford University China Centre.

About the Panellists

Prof. Patricia Thornton is Associate Professor of Chinese Politics at Oxford University 

Prof. Thomas Kellogg is Executive Director of the Center for Asian Law at Georgetown University Law School

Dr Li Ling is Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna

Chair: Dr Ewan Smith is Associate Professor of Public Law at University College London 

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