Quanxi Gao

Professor Gao Quanxi is a distinguished Chair Professor and the Director of the Center for Constitutional and National Governance at KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Prior to his current role, Professor Gao held several notable academic positions, including Prime Professor and Dean at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences at Beihang University (2011–2016), and Research Professor at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2004–2008).

Professor Gao earned his PhD in Philosophy from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. His research interests encompass Constitutional Theory and History, Political and Legal Philosophy, and the History of Western Legal and Political Thoughts.

Among his significant publications are Political Constitution and Future Constitutionalism in China (2016), Outlines of Chinese Jurisprudence of Political Constitution (2014), and Intellectual Monument Mark: Lectures on History of Western Political Thoughts (2012). In recent years, Professor Gao has published Ten Lectures on Scottish Moral Philosophy（2023), Modern Western Political Thought (2023) and Shakespeare’s History Plays & the British Monarchy (2024).