Vice Dean of Law School\Professor

Office Address: 613, Wenzhi Building, South Lake Campus

E-mail: yisulaw@gmail.com

Bao Zhang, male, born in 1983, Fuyang, Anhui Province, is the Vice Dean and Professor of the Law School of Central South University of Economics and Law, and the Executive Director of Double Carbon Rule of Law Research Base (built in cooperation with Hubei High Court and China Carbon Deng), as well as the Director of Environmental Law Research Society of China Law Society, the Secretary General of Environmental Resources Law Research Society of Hubei Law Society, and the consultant of environmental resources and public interest litigation trial of Hubei Court.

He received his LL.B. (2005), LL.M. (2007), and J.D. (2012, joint training with Vermont Law School) from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, and a postdoctoral degree in administrative law from Zhongnan University (2016). He has served as lecturer, associate professor, assistant dean of the Law School of Central South University (2012-2018), executive director of Environmental Justice Research Center of Central South University and Hunan High Court Environmental Resources Judicial Theory Research Base (2016-2018), assistant to the president of Civil Division III (Environmental Resources Trial Division) of Hunan Provincial High People's Court (2016-2017), economic law of the Law School of Central South University of Economics and Law Department Head, Associate Professor and Professor (2018-2020).

He is mainly engaged in the intersection of environmental law and traditional law, especially focusing on the topics of environmental tort, environmental regulation and environmental justice. He has authored more than ten books, including "The Legal Construction of Environmental Regulation" (2018) and "The Explanatory Theory of Environmental Tort" (2015), and co-authored "Infringement and Remedy: The Basis of Rule of Law in an Environmentally Friendly Society" and "Research on the Legal Regulation of the Health Hazards of Environmental Lead and Cadmium Pollution in the Population"; published more than forty papers in Modern Law, China Population, Resources and Environment, Taxation Research, People's Daily (Theory Edition), etc. He has published more than forty papers, many of which have been reprinted or excerpted in full in Xinhua Digest, China Social Science Digest, and NPC Reprographic Materials; presided over two projects of the National Social Science Foundation, three sub-projects of major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, and more than twenty projects of the Ministry of Justice and the Chinese Law Society; won the 2020-2021 Zhongda Young Scholar Award in Environmental Law, the 15th "Challenge Cup" National (Grand Prize) Outstanding Mentor Award, the first Alibaba Fuying Environmental Law Young Talent Award, and other awards.

Part-time positions:

Director of the Environmental Resources Law Research Society of the Chinese Law Society

Executive Director of the Environmental Law Branch of the Chinese Society of Environmental Science

Director of the Chinese Society of Behavioral Law

Secretary General of Hubei Provincial Law Society Environmental Resources Law Research Association

Advisory expert on environmental resources and public interest litigation in Hubei courts

Editorial board member of China Environmental Law Review, China Environmental Law and Order, Environmental Law Review, etc.

Research interests:

Basic theory of environmental law, environmental civil law, environmental regulation and environmental administrative law, environmental justice and public interest litigation

Courses:

Environmental Law (required course for undergraduates)

Pollution Prevention and Control Law (Master's Specialized Course)

Scientific Research Projects:

He has presided over more than 20 projects, some of which are as follows

- National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSF) Youth Project, The Applicable Relationship between Government Civil Claims for Ecological and Environmental Damage and Administrative Enforcement (18CFX071)

- National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSF) Post-grant Project, Environmental Regulation (14FFX037)

- National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSF) Major Project Subproject, Research on Improving the Mechanism for Connecting Law Enforcement and Judicial Protection of Ecological Environment (20ZDA090)

- Research on the Legal System of Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development in the Yellow River Basin (20ZD&186), a subproject of a major project of the National Social Science Foundation of China

- National Research Project on Rule of Law and Legal Theory, Ministry of Justice, Research on Special Procedures for Environmental Litigation (14SFB30044)

- Ministry-level Research Project of the Chinese Law Society, Research on Ecological and Environmental Damage Compensation System [CLS (2014) Y10]

- Ministry-level Research Project of the Chinese Law Society, Research on the Applicable Relationship between Government Claims for Ecological and Environmental Damage and Public Interest Litigation [CLS (2017) D162

- Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Study on the Legal Nature of Ecological and Environmental Damage

- Wuhan Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, Legislative Commissioning Project of Wuhan Water Supply Regulations

- Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Legislative Commissioning Project of Wuhan Municipal Medical Waste Management Measures

Published monographs:

The Legal Construction of Environmental Regulation (330,000 words), Peking University Press, 2018

The Explanatory Theory of Environmental Tort (210,000 words), China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2015

Main Papers:

A total of more than 40 papers have been published, including more than 20 in CSSCI source publications, some of which are as follows.

- On the Institutional Optimization of Water Tax for Public Water Supply, Taxation Research, No. 5, 2022, CSSCI

- The Renewal of the Concept of Prevention and the Institutional Realization of the Pollution Control Part of the Environmental Code," Law Forum, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2022, CSSCI

- The differentiation and integration of environmental public welfare protection mechanism in China, Journal of Social Sciences of Hunan Normal University, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2021, CSSCI (Reprinted in full by NPC Copy Materials, Economic Law, Labor Law, Vol. 8, 2021)

- Changes in the connotation of regulation and the evolution of modern environmental law, China Population, Resources and Environment, Vol. 12, 2020, CSSCI

- Exploration of the Purpose and Institutional Improvement of Water Resources Tax, Taxation Research, Vol. 8, No. 8, 2020, CSSCI (Reprinted in full in Xinhua Digest, Vol. 24, 2021)

- Beyond Reductionist View of Environmental Justice, Political Law Series, Vol. 3, 2020, CSSCI (Abstract of Argument, Xinhua Digest, Vol. 21, 2020)

- The Nature and Positioning of the Government Claims System for Ecological and Environmental Damage, Modern Law, No. 2, 2020, CSSCI (Reprinted in full by NPC Copy Materials, Economic Law Labor Law, No. 8, 2020)

- From Hazard Prevention to Risk Prevention: Risk Turnaround and Institutional Adaptation of Environmental Governance, Law Forum, Vol. 1, 2020, CSSCI (Reprinted in full in China Social Science Digest, Vol. 7, 2020)

- Discerning the Applicable Relationship between the Government's Right to Claim for Ecological and Environmental Damage and the Right to Regulate, Law Forum, Vol. 3, 2017, CSSCI (Reprinted in full in NPC Copy Materials, Economic Law, Labor Law, Vol. 9, 2017)

- Study on the Victim's Duty of Proof in Environmental Tort Litigation, Politics and Law, Vol. 2, 2015, CSSCI

- Rethinking and Reconstructing the Principle of Environmental Tort Attribution: Based on Doctrine and Practice, Modern Jurisprudence, Vol. 4, 2011, CSSCI (Reprinted in full by NPC Copy Materials, Economic Law, Labor Law, Vol. 1, 2012)

- Sound Environmental Regulatory System to Prevent Environmental Health Risks, People's Daily (Theory Edition), June 28, 2013

- Specialized Environmental Courts in China: Status Quo, Challenges and Responses, 30 Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 361-390 (2012)  

Honors and Awards:

Zhongda Environmental Law Young Scholar Award

The First Alibaba Fuying Young Talent Award in Environmental Law

The Sixth Reed Green Environmental Law Award

First Prize of the 10th Hubei Rule of Law Forum

Outstanding Instructor Award of the 15th "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition for University Students

Outstanding Instructor of the Tenth National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition for University Students