Shucheng Wang, also known as Peter Wang, is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong's School of Law. He holds a PhD from the Fulbright Chinese PhD Dissertation Research Program at Renmin University in Beijing and Emory University in the US, where his supervisor was Michael J. Perry. His dissertation, titled "Presumption of Constitutionality", explored the relationship between the legislature and judiciary in the process of constitutional review from a comparative perspective. For this, he was awarded the "National Outstanding PhD Dissertation Prize" by the Ministry of Education in 2011, the only recipient in the field of law nationwide. Prior to his PhD, Wang completed a Master of International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar and the first graduate of the program from Greater China.
Beyond his academic achievements, Wang is also a specialist in Chinese calligraphy and has received numerous national awards for his artwork, particularly during his time as a law undergraduate. In 2003, he held his own Chinese calligraphy exhibition in Wuhan City.
Wang began his academic career at the Peking University School of Government in 2009. He then joined the City University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas of comparative public law, human rights, legal theory, law and religion, international law, and Chinese law and society. He has published four books, including "Law as an Instrument: Sources of Chinese Law for Authoritarian Legality" (2022), as well as over fifty articles in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Human Rights Quarterly, Modern China, Politics Religion & Ideology, and Public Law Review. His research has been recognised and cited by legal professionals and institutions worldwide, including the Justice of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Singapore. Additionally, his publications have been featured on the reading lists of several interdisciplinary courses offered by universities in the UK, Germany, Sweden, and other countries.
Wang has served as an expert witness for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and as a leading examiner in constitutional law on the PCLL Conversion Examination of the Standing Committee on Legal Education and Training in Hong Kong. He has also been affiliated with the Law and Religion in Asia Pacific program at the School of Law, University of Queensland in Australia, and has held visiting appointments at various prestigious institutions, including Harvard Law School, State University of New York at Albany, National University of Singapore, and Seoul National University.