Dr. Qian Liu
Positions
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Phone number
Office: 4032206512
Location
Office: Social Sciences 948
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Study participants
Asian Canadian lawyers and law students to share experiences in the legal profession and law school;
Chinese immigrants to share experience dealing with family/community/workplace disputes in Canada.
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Law and Society, University of Victoria, 2020
Biography
Dr. Qian Liu is an Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. She is a law and society scholar with research interests in the place of law in everyday life, legal cultures, the legal profession, dispute resolution, and law and family relations. She has published numerous articles in top-tier journals, such as Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of Law and Society, and Law & Policy. Her article, "Relational Legal Consciousness in the One-Child Nation", received the Asian Law and Society Association Distinguished Article Award in 2024. She is on the Asian Law and Society Association Board of Trustees and the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Law and Society.
Dr. Liu is the author of Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships (University of California Press, 2025).
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| LWSO 201 | Introduction to Legal Studies | |
| LWSO 313 | Research Methods in Law and Society | |
| LWSO 591 | Integrative Seminar | |
| SOCI 615 | Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods |
Projects
Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2023 Insight Development Grant
Funded by UCalgary Faculty of Arts Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Grant
Awards
- University of Calgary Teaching Award (for Full-Time Academic Staff), University of Calgary. 2024
- 2024 Asian Law and Society Association Distinguished Article Award, Asian Law and Society Association . 2024
- Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Legal Unity & Pluralism” Digital Fellowship , The University of Münster, Germany. 2021
- 2019 Asian Law and Society Association Graduate Student Article Award, Asian Law and Society Association . 2019
- International Development Research Centre Doctoral Research Award, International Development Research Centre of Canada. 2016
- University of Victoria Doctoral Fellowship , University of Victoria. 2014
Publications
- Challenges Faced by Lawyers Representing Chinese Immigrants in Canada: Understanding Lawyer-Client Relationships through Legal Consciousness. Social & Legal Studies. (2025)
- Law, Politics, and the Academy in Asia: Navigating Constraints as Public Law Scholars. Maartje De Visser, Qian Liu, and Victor V. Ramraj. Asian Journal of Law and Society. (2025)
- Legal Collusion: Legal Consciousness under China's One-Child Policy. Qian Liu. Law & Social Inquiry. 1-22. (2024)
- Relational Legal Consciousness in the One-Child Nation. Qian Liu. Law & Society Review. (2023)
- "Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey": Heavy Penalties, Excessive COVID-19 Control Mechanisms, and Legal Consciousness in China. Qian Liu. Law & Policy. (2023)
- 'Wrong' Cases and 'Wrong' Plaintiffs: Intergenerational Relationships and Legal Consciousness in China. Qian Liu. Journal of Law and Society. (2023)
- Complicating Images of the Modern Chinese Woman: From Only Child to 'Leftover Woman.'". Angie Chau and Qian Liu. Feminist Media Studies. (2023)
- "'We Got Nothing to Lose': Covid-19, Excessive Surveillance, and the Right to Privacy in China.". Qian Liu and Yucong Zhang. Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. 3-31. (2023)
- Law's Imposition of a Heteronormative Timeline in a Rapidly Ageing Authoritarian State. Qian Liu. Jindal Global Law Review. 231-251. (2022)
- Qualified to be Deviant: Stigma Management Strategies among Chinese Leftover Women. Qian Liu. International Journal of Law in Context . 284-300. (2021)
- Relational Dignity, State Law, and Chinese Leftover Women’s Choices in Marriage and Childbearing. Qian Liu. Asian Journal of Law and Society. 151-167. (2021)
- With or Without You: Qing, Li, Fa, and Legal Pluralism in China. Qian Liu. China Law and Society Review. 88-118. (2020)
- Legal Consciousness of the Leftover Woman: Law and Qing in Chinese Family Relations. Qian Liu. Asian Journal of Law and Society . 7-27. (2018)
- Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships. Qian Liu. University of California Press. (2025)
- China: Community Policing, High-tech Surveillance, and Authoritarian Durability. Feng Xu and Qian Liu. Victor V. Ramraj eds, Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts, Oxford University Press. 27-42. (2021)
- Unmarried Mothers in China and their Feminist Resistance: Demanding Legal Rights or Social Understanding?. Qian Liu. Guoguang Wu, Yuan Feng & Helen Lansdowne eds, Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China, Routledge. 166-184. (2019)
- From China to Canada: How important is legal recognition of same-sex marriage to Chinese LGBT folks?. Qian Liu. BarTalk’s special issue on Human Sexuality and the Law. (2020)
- Book Review: Rights Claiming in South Korea. Qian Liu. The Journal of Asian Studies. 590-591. (2022)
- Book Review: China’s Leftover Women: Late Marriage among Professional Women and its Consequences. Qian Liu. Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 471-474. (2015)
In the News
- Chinese Women’s Egg Freezing. BBC World News. (2017)
- The rent-a-friend industry is booming among Canada's Chinese diaspora. The Canadian Press. (2024)
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