Research Interests: Law and society, globalization,
comparative legal systems, the Chinese legal system, crime & deviance.
Bin Liang, an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, has
published a number of articles on studies related to crime and
the legal system in China. He received his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees
from Arizona State University in 2003. His new book with Routledge
(2008) is titled The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present:
Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System.
His current research interests include globalization and its impact
on the Chinese legal system, crime and deviance in China, and the
drug court in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.