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

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

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

 

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

Assistant Managing Editor, Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) of Oxford University Press (Dec 2019- )

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

Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University Law Center (Sep 2017- Mar 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)

 

International law, international environment law, law and development.

I am primarily interested in the linkages between international law and the economy, in issues including economic inequality and financial market operations, corporations in international law, environment protection and the economy, and the human right to development.

 

1. Publications in English

Wenhua Shan, Kimmo Nuotio, Kangle Zhang (eds), Normative Readings of the Belt and Road Initiative: Road to New Paradigms (Springer, 2018).

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

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

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 2022).

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

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.

 

2. Publications in Chinese

Kangle Zhang, ‘International Credit Ratings as Private Regulators’ (2022) 166 Journal of North Minzu University 131.

Kangle Zhang, ‘International Credit Rating Agencies’ Private Regulation and the Source of Regulatory Authority’ (2022) 51 Journal of Shanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) 167.

Kangle Zhang, ‘International Law and the Shaping of a State’s Development’ (2022) 34 Peking University Law Journal 1381.

Kangle Zhang, ‘On the International Law Approach to Enhance International Discourse Influence’ (2022) 42 Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 110.

 

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