Biography

Professor Zhang Xianchu received his LL.B degree from China University of Political Science & Law and MCL and JD from Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington. He served as an associate dean of the Faculty of Law from 2002-2014 and 2017-2019. Currently he is a council member of Chinese Judicial Studies Association of the Supreme People’s Court, a member of task force of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of the Department of Justice of Hong Kong and an arbitrator of CIETAC, Shanghai and Shenzhen International Arbitration Commissions. He is also an editor of Asian Commercial, Financial and Economic Law and Policy Series of Edward Elgar Publishing and Bologna Law Review.

He has taught various subjects on PRC and Hong Kong commercial laws. His research interests include corporate law, foreign investment law, financial market regulations and cross-border legal issues. His recent publications include 當代中國法律,（與馮巍合著），中華書局， 2024年1月; ESG in China: A Critical Review from a Legal Perspective, Chapter 19, in Thilo Kuntz (Ed.), Research Handbook on Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2024, at 421-438; Transparency in a Socialist Market Economy: Market Discipline and Political Authoritarianism in Fu Hualing, Michael Palmer and Zhang Xianchu (ed.), Transparency Challenges Facing China, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2019, at 20-47; 粤港澳大湾区：机遇与挑战， 《澳門法學》， 2019年第2 期， 第189-204頁; Integration of CCP Leadership with Corporate Governance: Leading Role or Dismemberment? China Perspectives, No. 1 of 2019, at 55- 63;

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