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Associate Professor, (Hector) Zhixun CAO, Civil Procedure

 

 

Born on June 8, 1986 in Beijing, China.

 

Education

Law School, Peking Uni. (PKU), Beijing, China

LL.D. (Civil Procedure Law), 2014

LL.M. (Procedure Law), 2010

LL.B., 2008

 

Experience

Law School, PKU, Beijing, China

  • Tenured Associate Professor: since Feb. 2023
  • Ph.D. supervisor: since July 2021
  • Assistant Professor (Tenure Track): Oct. 2016-Feb. 2023, mid-term evaluated (Sept. 2019)
  • Main research project: On the Approach of Procedural Law to Identifying the Subject Matter of Civil Claims in China, National Social Science Foundation Youth Project, State Dept. of Education (2018-2023)
  • Award: Higher School Science Research Excellent Achievement Prize (Humanities and Social Science), Youth Achievement Prize (State Dept. of Education, 2020)

 

KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni., Shanghai, China

  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2016
  • Main research projects: On the Amendment of a Judgment due to the Overlook of the Civil Claim in the First Instance, 9th Batch of Special Grant, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016); On the Theories of Subject Matter in Civil Litigation, 57th Batch of Grant (first class), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015)
  • Award: Dean Prize 2015 (KoGuan Law School, 2015)

 

Teaching Experience

  • PKU Law School, Civil Procedure (68 hours; for undergraduate students)
  • PKU Law School, Seminar of Civil Procedure and its Enforcement (51 hours; for undergraduate students)
  • PKU Law School, On the Theory and Practice of Legal Enforcement in Civil Procedure (34/51 hours; for graduate students)
  • PKU Law School, Seminar of Civil Procedure Law (51 hours; for graduate students)
  • PKU Law School, Case Study of Civil Procedure (51 hours; for undergraduate and graduate students)
  • PKU Law School, Chinese Civil Procedure and Arbitration Law (51 hours; for LL.M. students abroad) (in English)

 

Research Interests

Civil Procedure Law, Evidence Law, Enforcement in Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution (esp. Commercial Arbitration), Civil and Commercial Law, Comparative Law and Judicial System

 

Languages

Mandarin Chinese (mother tongue)

Fluent in English and German

Basic knowledge of Japanese

 

Selected Recent Publications

  • Discovery of Debtor’s Assets in the Enforcement of Monetary Judgements in China, 40 Ritsumeikan Law Review 69–87 (2022). (in English)
  • The Procedural Theories on the Subject Matter of the Claim in Germany: Tradition and Evolution, SJTU Law Review (extended CSSCI list), 2022(3), pp. 5–27. (in Chinese)
  • On the Civil Adjudicative Methods in the First Instance: Concentrating on the Finding of Facts, Law Press, 2022 (ISBN 978-7-5197-6239-1) (in Chinese).
  • On the Classification of Extra-judicial Expert Identification and Its Judicial Review, Chinese Journal of Law (CSSCI list, TOP 3), 2022 (2), pp. 111–130. (in Chinese)
  • Online Dispute Resolution Mechanism in China: Principle of Proceedings and Impact of Technologies, 8 (1) China and WTO Review 29–62 (2022). (in English)
  • Evolution of Online Courts in China: Situation and Challenges 11(2) International Journal of Procedural Law 300–316 (2021). (in English)
  • Restructuring the Rules against Relitigation in a Civil Process: Based on the Judicial Review of Validity of Civil Contracts Sua Sponte, China Legal Science (CSSCI list, TOP 3), 2022(1), pp. 280–304. (in Chinese) (reprinted by the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin Uni., June 2022)
  • Civil Enforcement Rules and Mechanism in China: the Past, Present and the Future, 9(1) Peking University Law Journal 23-44, https://doi.org/10.1080/20517483.2021.1978677. (in English)
  • On the Civil Enforcement Organ in China, 2021(4) China Legal Science 106–129. (in English) (reprinted in 11 Instituto de Estudios Sociales, Política y Cultura 47-70 (2021); ISSN 2525-1600, Universidad San Pablo-Tucumán, Argentina)
  • On the Procedural Principles and Identification of the Claim for Performance: Concentrating on the Contents of Performance, Nanjing University Law Journal (extended CSSCI list), 2021(5), pp. 125-141. (in Chinese)
  • New Practical Development of Judgments Based on the Burden of Proof, Yenching Legal Studies, 2021(2), pp. 154–170. (in Chinese)
  • On the Citation of Legal Norms in Civil Litigation, Law and Modernization, 2021(3), pp. 150–161. (in Chinese)
  • Reconsidering Judicial Power to Examine Validity of Civil Contracts Sua Sponte in Civil Process, Law and Social Development (CSSCI list), 2021(3), pp. 205–224. (in Chinese) (reprinted by the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin Uni., Oct. 2021)
  • Allocation of Powers and Rights in Commencing Judicial Identification in Civil Cases, Contemporary Law Review (CSSCI list), 2021(2), pp. 134–146. (in Chinese)
  • On the Double Relevant Facts in Civil Process, Global Law Review (CSSCI list), 2021(1), pp. 117  131. (in Chinese)
  • Judicial Review to the Application for Judicial Identification of a Party, Law Science (CSSCI list), 2020(12), pp. 112  129. (in Chinese)
  • Models of Proof of Factual Allegations in Civil Process, Journal of Soochow University (Law Edition), 2020(4), pp. 124 - 136. (in Chinese)
  • Need for the Identification of Documentary Evidences and the Allocation of Costs, the China Law Review (extended CSSCI list), 2020(3), pp. 187 - 196. (in Chinese)
  • Different Dimensions of the Fact-finding Reasoning in Civil Judgment : “Pengyu” Decision as an Example, Northern Legal Science (extended CSSCI list), 2020(3), pp. 89 - 98. (in Chinese)
  • On the Judicial Duty of Legal Discussion, in JIANG Shiming ed., Judicial Duty of Clarification, Taiwan New Sharing Press, June 2020, pp. 357 - 402. (in Chinese)
  • On the Limitation of the Presumption Rule of the Substantial Proving Effect of Public Documents, Journal of National Prosecutors College (CSSCI list), 2020(2), pp. 137 - 154. (in Chinese)
  • Reconsidering the Requirement of the Subject Matter of the Civil Claim during Case-Filing Proceedings, China Legal Science (CSSCI list, TOP 3), 2020(1), pp. 178 - 198. (in Chinese)
  • The Chinese Approach to the Confirmation of the Authentication of Documentary Evidence, Chinese Journal of Law (CSSCI list, TOP 3), 2019 (6), pp. 115 - 133. (in Chinese)
  • Burden of Proof and Non-Liquet: Different Modes and New Development in China, in Adrian Simons, Aluisio Gonçalves de Castro Mendes, Alvaro Pérez Ragone, Paulo Henrique dos Santos Lucon: ESTUDOS EM HOMENAGEM A ADA PELLEGRINI GRINOVER E JOSÉ CARLOS BARBOSA MOREIRA (Liber Amicorum Barbosa Moreira et Ada Pellegrini), São Paulo : Tirant lo Blanch, 2019, pp. 1237 – 1247. (in English)
  • Two Models of Applying the Prima Facie Evidence: Reconsidering the “Pengyu” Decision, The Jurist (CSSCI list), 2019 (5), pp. 31 - 44. (in Chinese)
  • Identifying Affirmative Civil Claim in Chinese Law, Law Science (CSSCI list), 2018(4), pp. 45 – 60. (in Chinese)
  • On the Permanent Injunction and its Enforcement: From the Perspective of the Regulation of Repeating Infringements, Peking University Law Journal (CSSCI list), 2018(4), pp. 1070 – 1100. (in Chinese)
  • On the Subject Matter of the Claim for Permanent Injunction, in JIANG Shiming ed., Theories of Subject Matter of Claims and the Prohibition of Re-litigation, Taiwan New Sharing Press, June 2018, pp. 277 - 303. (in Chinese)
  • Discussion on the Concurrence of Civil Claims in the Substantive Law Theory on Subject Matter of Claims (Streitgegenstand) in Germany, SJTU Law Review (extended CSSCI list), 2018(1), pp. 33 - 44. (in Chinese)
  • On the Rectification of the Omission of a Civil Claim in the First Instance, Legal Science (CSSCI list), 2017(4), pp. 22 - 38. (in Chinese)
  • On the Rectification of Clerical Mistakes in A Civil Judgment, Wuhan University Journal (Philosophy & Social Sciences) (CSSCI list), 2017(4), pp. 70 - 79. (in Chinese)
  • Relationship between the Degree of Judge’s Power to Collect Evidence Sua Sponte and the Third Thesis of Verhandlungsmaxime, in JIANG Shiming ed., Recent Controversy between the Modified Verhandlungsmaxime and the Kooperationsmaxime, Taiwan New Sharing Press, May 2017, pp. 285 - 304. (in Chinese)
  • On the Effect of the Guiding Cases in China and their Application in the Legal Process, Journal of Comparative Law (CSSCI list), 2016(6), pp. 111 - 134. (in Chinese) (reprinted by the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin Uni., April 2017)
  • The Requirement of Factual Particulars during the Formal Review in the Civil Registration Proceedings, Contemporary Law Review (CSSCI list), 2016(1), pp. 130 - 139. (in Chinese)
  • Some Clarification on the Civil Institution of Territorial Jurisdiction, The Jurist (CSSCI list), 2015 (6), pp. 75 - 87. (in Chinese)
  • On the Non-liquet Status of Factual Allegation in China, in Loïc Cadiet u.a., Procedural Science at the Crossroads of Different Generations (Bd. 4), Nomos, pp. 225 - 248. (in English)
  • The Structure and Reasoning of the Civil Judgment, China Legal Science (CSSCI list, TOP 3), 2015(4), pp. 226 - 246. (in Chinese)
  • Against the Predetermined Effect of Factual Conviction in the Civil Judgment, Modern Law Science (CSSCI list), Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 130 - 138. (in Chinese)
  • The Construction of Commercial Court in China, Journal of National Prosecutors College (extended CSSCI list), Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 121 - 130. (in Chinese)
  • On the Interpretation of the Interruption of the Prescription of Action with Bringing A Claim, Contemporary Law Review (CSSCI list), 2014 (6), pp. 115 - 124. (in Chinese) (reprinted by the Information Center for Social Sciences, Renmin Uni., March 2015)
  • The Position of the Judges in Civil Litigation in Transitional China: Focusing on Judicial Mediation and Case Management for Trial, in C.H. van Rhee and CHEN Lei (eds.), Towards a Chinese Civil Code: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 495 - 519. (with FU Yulin, in English)