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      Dr Liz Lijun Zhao

      Speciality: International Business Law, International Law, and Chinese Law
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Law
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Law
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5890
      EMAIL: L.Zhao@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Lijun (Liz) Zhao is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University. She pursued her legal education in the UK (PhD – Bangor), and China (LLB, LLM and MPhil in law). Liz has expertise in international law and international business law. Besides legal training, she has an interdisciplinary background in economics, business and management. Liz is also a qualified Fellow of the British Higher Education Association.

        Before joining academia, Liz was called to the Bar of P.R. China and specialises in commercial law and judicial review. She successfully passed the PRC Bar Exam in 2008 and worked as a lawyer in Beijing, handling commercial cases. Liz has also acted as a consultant for several governmental law reform projects.

        Dr Zhao has held visiting posts at various institutions including Harvard Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private Law, Swansea University and Shanghai Maritime University.

        Liz’s research has been published widely in International Business Law and International Law, including International Trade, Commerical Law, Maritime and Transport Law, Comparative and Chinese Law. Many articles of hers have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. Some articles are archived by the UN Library and indexed in the UNCITRAL Bibliography on international trade and maritime law.

        Liz has experience in teaching many undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her teaching areas cover English Legal System, Contract, Tort, EU law, WTO law, International Sales of Goods, Insurance, Competition Law, Law of the Seas, Commercial Law, Maritime and Transport Law.

        PhD Supervision:
        Dr Zhao welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students.

        To download her publications, please visit:

        http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/view/creators/Zhao=3ALijun.html

        http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1564290

        Qualifications:

        • PhD in Law, School of Law, The University of Wales, Bangor
        • LLB, LLM and MPhil in Law, China University of Political Science and Law
        • Qualified lawyer in PR China
        • Fellow of the British Higher Education Association
        • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
        • MBA in Shipping and Logistics

        Previous Relevant Experience:

        • 2011-2014   University of Wales, Bangor                            Programme Coordinator
        • 2007-2009  China University of Political Science and Law   Executive Editor

        Languages Spoken

        Chinese (Mandarin): Native Speaker

        English: Full Professional Proficiency

        German: Elementary Proficiency

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Areas of Teaching:

        • International Business Law
        • International Financial Law
        • Maritime Law
        • International Law
        • English Legal System and Legal Methods
        • Advanced Mooting

        LLM Student Supervision Experience:

        • School of law, Bangor University, UK
        • School of Law, Middlesex University, London

        PhD Supervision and Coordination:

        Dr Zhao welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students. Currently, she is supervising two candidates.

        External Examiner Experience:

        Swansea University (2017-)

        Oxford Brooks University (2018-)

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Dr Zhao specialises in International Law and International Business Law. Her research has been published widely regarding International Trade, Commercial Law, Maritime Law, Comparative and Chinese Law. She has also acted as a consultant for several governmental law reform projects.

        Many articles of hers have been published in international peer-reviewed journals. Some articles are archived by the UN Library and indexed in the UNCITRAL Bibliography on international trade and maritime law. Her recent papers are 'Uniform Seaborne Cargo Regimes – A Historical Review' in Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, and 'Transportation, Cooperation and Harmonization' in Pace International Law Review.

        Lately, Dr Zhao is conducting commercial-law research with a multidisciplinary nature. Her latest publications employed empirical and economic analysis, such as Chinese and US corporate law ‘To be or not to be? – An empirical study on dual-class share structure of US-listed Chinese companies’ in Journal of International Business and Law, and a book chapter on carriage of goods by sea  ‘An empirical study on uniform seaborne cargo rules’ with Thomas Reuters.

        Research Interests:

        • International Business Law
        • International Law
        • Comparative and Chinese Law

        PhD Supervision:
        Dr Zhao welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students.

        To read more publications of Dr Zhao, please see:

        http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/view/creators/Zhao=3ALijun.html

        http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1564290

        Working Papers:

        • International Tax Regimes: the UN or OECD Models?
        • A Critique of the Role of Transportation in Era of Deglobalization and Trump’s Administration
        • International Law and the Environment: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Trade Measures
        • Foreign Trade and Investment Law in China and China’s outbound investment: Impact and Implications of the Belt and Road Initiate
        • The Basic Legal Issues of Warranty of the Marine Insurance Contract: Common Law and Chinese Law Perspectives
        • Good Faith, Civil Law, and the CISG – with a special reference to the new General Provisions of Civil Law of China

        Publication Feed

        Restructuring seafarers’ welfare under the Maritime Labour Convention: an empirical case study of Greece

        Zhang, Pengfei and Zhao, Lijun and Vata, Olga and Rajagopal, Sriram (2020) Restructuring seafarers’ welfare under the Maritime Labour Convention: an empirical case study of Greece. Maritime Business Review . ISSN 2397-3757 (Accepted/In press)

        Lex Maritima in a changing world: development and prospect of rules governing carriage of goods by sea

        Zhao, Lijun (2020) Lex Maritima in a changing world: development and prospect of rules governing carriage of goods by sea. In: Maritime Law in Motion. Mukherjee, Proshanto Kumar and Mejia, Maximo Q. and Xu, Jingjing , eds. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, 8 . Springer International Publishing, pp. 761-783. ISBN 9783030317485

        The CISG in action: law and practice in China

        Zhao, Lijun (2019) The CISG in action: law and practice in China. In: Contracts for the international sale of goods: a multidisciplinary perspective. Sooksipaisarnkit, Proomintr and Garimella, Sai Ramani , eds. Sweet & Maxwell, Hong Kong. ISBN 9789626614518

        China’s port system development and its internationalisation – with special reference to belt and road initiative

        Zhao, Lijun (2018) China’s port system development and its internationalisation – with special reference to belt and road initiative. In: Current Issues in Maritime and Transport Law. Zunarelli, Stefano and Musi, Massimiliano , eds. Bronmo; Bologna. (Accepted/In press)

        To be or not to be? – An empirical study on dual-class share structure of US listed Chinese companies

        Chen, Fa and Zhao, Lijun (2017) To be or not to be? – An empirical study on dual-class share structure of US listed Chinese companies. Journal of International Business and Law , 16 (2). ISSN 2151-7649

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Selected Conference Contribution:

        • Presentation on Trade Measures and International Economic Law, Harvard Law School, 6/2018, Cambridge, Boston
        • Presentation on Comparative Study of UK Insurance Act (2015) and Chinese Insurance Law, 10th European Colloquium on Maritime Law Research, Torun, Poland, 9/2018
        • Presentation on Chinese Global Trade Relationships in the Trump Era: Belt and Road Initiative on International Trade Rules, Italy, 9/2018
        • Cass Business Society, Oil Market Analysis, 15/5/2017
        • Convenor of the Middlesex Delegation to the UN IMO
        • Coordinator of PhD Annual Conference
        • Spring Seminar with HFW LLP and Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Trading in the Arctic, 24/4/2018, City of London
        • Guest lecture on Law of the Sea: the South China Sea Arbitration and ongoing UK-Mauritius Disputes on Chagos Islands, City, University of London
        • Moot court on ‘Expert Witness: Hot Tubbing (ie. concurrent expert evidence)’, Homefield Ltd. V. Wilstrop Farm Ltd., Accountancy Experts on calculation of damages, Rolls Building of the High Court, London, 30/10/2017
        • LPC Law Training on Mediation: Property & Consumer Disputes, London, 20/10/2017
        • Legal and Economic Analysis of Impact of the Paris Climate Convention on Global Trade and the Shipping Industry, St. Catherine Docks, Clarkson, London, 5/10/2017
        • Think Asia, Think Hong Kong event, London, 21/09/2017
        • Presentation ‘China’s Role in International Trade: Belt and Road Initiatives’, London Shipping Week, 11-15/09/2017
        • The Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Belt and Road Initiative: Chinese Law and Recent Legal Reform, Cambridge, 5-6/09/2017
        • World Maritime Day in China, Port Management Discussion Forum, Ningbo, China, 11/07/2017
        • Shanghai Ship Management Conference, Shanghai, 09/07/2017
        • Shanghai Solent Seafarers Conference, Shanghai, 07/07/2017,
        • Observer in negotiation of implementation of the BWM (Ballast Water Management) Convention, at the International Maritime Organization, 74th Session, MPEC plenary meeting, London

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Dr Zhao has also acted as a consultant for several governmental law reform projects. For instance, ‘The Protection of Victims in Criminal Cases’ with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of PR China, ‘A Comparative Study on the External Supervision on Civil Cases’ with Higher People's Court of Shandong Province, and currently the SWiC Project (The Seafarers' Welfare in Chinese Ports Project) in Shanghai, Ningbo and Shenzhen, Multimodal transport in UK and Europe, such as London, Southampton, and Hamburg.

        Memberships:

        • China-Europe Commercial Collaboration Association
        • British Institute of International and Comparative Law
        • Society of Legal Scholars
        • Irish Society of Comparative Law
        • Cass Business Society, Oil Market Analysis

        External engagement:

        • Director, China-Europe Commercial Collaboration Association
        • Member of China Centre (Maritime) of Southampton Solent University
        • Adjunct Professor at Beijing International Studies University (2015-)
        • Research Fellow at Shanghai Maritime University
        • Reviewer of Journal of Navigation with Cambridge (2016-)
        • Reviewer of Routledge Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs (2015-)
        • Reviewer of Maritime Policy & Management (The flagship journal of international shipping and port research) (2016-)
        • External Reviewer, Swansea University (2017-)

        Blogs:

        CECCA Newsletter (for download and subscription)

        China-Europe Trade and Law Blogs (on news and new laws)

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