His academic interests center on criminal law, and include: criminal jurisprudence, the theory of criminal composition, the theory of accomplice, the criminal cases system, juvenile delinquency, and criminal justice. Wang received his first legal degree from Lanzhou University School of Law; he also holds a PhD in Law from Jilin University. One of Wang’s goals for his time at Penn Law is to study the relationship between the development of the criminal justice system and rule of law, and to identify suggestions to reform criminal justice in China. Faculty sponsor: Paul Robinson. Mehdi Zakerian (Iran)