Bachelor’s Degree in International Politics, School of International Studies, Peking University (2011)

Master’s Degree in Law, Law School, Peking University (2014)

Doctor of Laws, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (2020)

 

§  Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University Law School (Jul-Aug 2025)

§  Sponsored University Associated, Georgetown University Law Center (Jul-Aug 2024)

§  Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (Jul-Aug 2023)

§  Post-doc Researcher, Peking University Law School (Oct 2020- Sep 2022)

§  Academic Visitor, Manchester International Law Centre, University of Manchester (Mar- Jun 2019)

§  Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University Law Center (Sep 2017- Apr 2018)

§ Participant, Kent Summer School in Critical Theory, University of Kent’s centre in Paris (Jun 2016)

§ Participant, 14th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (May 2014)

§ Participant, Summer Programme of Public International Law, the Hague Academy of International Law (Jul 2013)

 

Kangle Zhang employs a law and political economy approach to international law, and his research primarily examines linkages between international law and the economy. Some of his research interests include economic inequality and financial market operations, corporations in international law, environmental protection and economic development, and the human right to development.

1.     Publications in English

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘Until We Meet Again: ESG, Law and Geopolitics’, Journal of International Economic Law forthcoming.

·        Kangle Zhang & Ukri Soirila, ‘A New Frontier in Fighting Inequality: International Law and Finance’ (2024) 93 Nordic Journal of International Law 506.

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘No Way Out’ in ‘Non Western Approaches to International Law’ (2023) American Society of International Law Proceedings 359.

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘International Law, Development, and the Making of a Chinese Model’, in Ruth Buchanan et al. (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (Oxford University Press 2023).

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘Near, far, wherever you are: reflections on studying and teaching international law’ (2022) 10 Peking University Law Journal 193.

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: The Legal Profession in the Pandemic’ (2022) 3 The Foundation for Law and International Affairs Review 31.

·        Kangle Zhang, ‘Market, Law and Distribution: Tracing a Stream of Liberal Economic Thinking’ (2020) 8 Peking University Law Journal 91.

·        Kangle Zhang, Not Equal: Towards an International Law of Finance (Helsinki: Picaset, 2020. ISBN: 9789515162113).

·        Kangle Zhang, A Tale of Ending Poverty: The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s global strategy, in Wenhua Shan, Kimmo Nuotio, Kangle Zhang (eds), Normative Readings of the Belt and Road Initiative: Road to New Paradigms, Springer, 2018

·        Kangle Zhang, Right to Information about and Involvement in Environmental Decision- Making along the Silk Road Economic Belt (2017) 5The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 58

·        Kangle Zhang, Using Trial Judgement to Heal: On Crimes Committed by Japanese Forces in China, The FICHL Policy Brief Series, no. 63, Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic Epublisher.

·        Book Review: Bertram Lomfeld, Alessandro Somma and Peer Zumbansen (eds), Reshaping Markets: Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia, CUP, 2016, in: Social & Legal Studies, 27(1), 2018, 124-127

·        Co-edited Book

o   WenhuaShan,KimmoNuotio,KangleZhang(eds), Normative Readings of the Belt and Road Initiative: Road to New Paradigms, Springer, 2018

2.     Publications in Chinese:

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘Does Technological Advancement Necessarily Lead to Economic Development?’ (2025) 17 Beijing Cultural Review.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘Cross-Border Credit Governance: An Analysis Based on the Dual Attributes of Credit Data’ (2025) 10 Local Legislation Journal 72.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘The Financial Roots of Global Economic Inequality: A Reflection from the Perspective of Critical International Law’ (2023) 23 Peking University Law Review 54.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘Law and Economic Inequality: A Critical International Law Appraoch’ (2023) 18 Peking University Review of International and Comparative Law 35.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘The Constitutive Role of International Law in State Economy’ (2022) Peking University Law Journal.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘Private Regulation by Credit Rating Agencies and the Regulatory Authority’ (2022) Journal of Shaanxi Normal University.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘Ratings as Private Regulations’ (2022) Journal of Northern Minzu University.

o   Kangle Zhang, ‘An International Law Approach to International Legal Discourse’ (2022) Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

 

The Law Fund, University of Helsinki (2018)

Chancellor’s Travel Grant (2017, 2016, 2016, 2015)

Dean’s Travel Grants (2017, 2016)

Research grant from the Olga ja Kaarle Oskari Laitisen Säätiö (2016)

 

kangle.m.zhang@gmail.com