Mary Gallagher is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, and in 2012-13, she was a Visiting Professor at the Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiaotong University. She is also the author or editor of several books, including Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China (with Margaret Y. K. Woo, Cambridge, 2011) and Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (with Allen Carlson, Kenneth Lieberthal and Melanie Manion, Cambridge, 2010).