Professor, Master Supervisor, Ph.D. Supervisor

E-mail: lawzzm@qq.com

 Zhongmin Zhang, male, Fangcheng, Henan Province, is a professor and Ph.D. supervisor of the Law School of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. He is also a researcher of Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Center of Tsinghua University, a director of Environmental Resources Law Research Society of China Law Society, and a director of Energy Law Research Society of China Law Society. He received his LL.B. (2001), LL.M. (2004), and J.D. (2008) from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and his LL.M. (2012) from Vermont Law School; he was involved in the establishment of the China Environmental Protection Association (2004-2005); he worked at the Hanjiang Intermediate People's Court in Hubei Province (2009-2010); and he worked at Columbia University (2010-2011) and Columbia University (2011). He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University School of Law (2010-2011) and Vermont Law School (2011-2012). He is mainly engaged in the research of environmental justice and energy law.

 He has published monographs such as "Monism to Pluralism: An Empirical Study of Ecological Litigation" and "Energy Contract Theory"; co-authored "Report on the Development of Environmental Justice in China", "Specialization of Environmental Justice: A Survey of the Current Situation and Institutional Reconstruction", "Theory and Practice of Environmental Damage Compensation Law", "Ideal and Reality: The Current Situation of Environmental Tort Disputes and the Construction of Relief Mechanism in China", etc.; co-edited "Introduction to Environmental Law", "Environmental Law", "Principles of Environmental Law", etc. Thesis on environmental law and the practice of environmental tort law, the ideal and reality: the current situation of environmental tort disputes in China and the construction of remedy mechanisms, etc.; co-editor of the textbook Introduction to Environmental Law, Environmental Law, Principles of Environmental Law, etc.; published more than forty papers in Chinese Law, Law, Global Law Review, Legal Science, Legal Business Research, People's Daily· Theory, Chinese Population· Resources and Environment, etc., many of which were reproduced in full by the Chinese Social Science Digest, NPC Reprographic Materials; presided over major projects and youth projects of the National Social Science Foundation. He has conducted more than ten research projects for the Supreme People's Court, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, etc. He has participated in the drafting and revision of many laws, judicial interpretations, departmental regulations and local legislation. He has made innovations in the field of empirical research on environmental justice and basic theoretical research on energy law, and has been the first to focus on and try to conduct statistics and analysis on environmental adjudication documents, and to propose concepts and analytical frameworks such as energy contract and energy justice.

Social position:  

  Researcher, Environmental Resources and Energy Law Research Center, Tsinghua University

  Director of Environmental Resources Law Research Society of China Law Society

  Director of the Energy Law Research Society of the Chinese Law Society

Research Interests: Environmental justice, energy law, basic theory of environmental law

Courses: Undergraduate: Environmental Law; Postgraduate: Energy Law; Doctoral: Topics in Chinese Environmental Law

Scientific research projects:

1. Major Project of National Social Science Foundation, "Research on Rule of Law Innovation of Ecological and Environmental Regulatory System in the New Era", 2018, Chief Expert

2. Key project of Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, "Research on the analysis of environmental economic situation in Hubei Province", 2020

3. Judicial Case Study Project of the Supreme People's Court, "Actual and Contingent Soil Pollution Trials", 2017

4. Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, "Research on the "Yichang Experiment" Guarantee Mechanism of Ecological Governance in the Three Gorges Ecological and Economic Cooperation Zone: A Perspective of Local Legislation", 2016

5. Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Finance, "Environmental Protection Division of Affairs and Fiscal Expenditure Responsibility", 2015

6. Hubei Provincial Social Science Foundation, "Research on the Mechanism and Policy of Ecological Compensation in the Han River Basin of Hubei Province", 2015

7. "Changes in Energy Law in the Context of Ecological Civilization", Ministry of Education, 2014

8. Youth Project of National Social Science Foundation of China, "Research on Ecological Civilization and Energy Law Innovation", 2013

Papers and Publications:

Representative papers:

1. "The Codification Logic and Normative Expression of the Green Low-carbon Development of the Environmental Code", Political and Legal Forum, No. 2, 2022.

2. "The Systemic Response and Institutional Implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development in the Green and Low-carbon Development Part of the Environmental Code", Legal Science, Vol. 1, 2022.

3. "Dimensions of Ecological Goals of Energy Regulation and Their Legal Expression - Centering on Electricity Regulation", Legal Business Research, No. 6, 2018.

4. "An Empirical Review of the Development of Environmental Judicial Specialization: Centering on Environmental Trial Institutions and Environmental Trial Mechanisms", Chinese Law Journal, Vol. 6, 2016.

5. "Judicial Remedies for Ecological Damage - An Analysis Based on a Sample of 5792 Environmental Judgment Instruments," Jurisprudence, No. 10, 2016. (Reprinted in full in NPC Copy Material-Litigation and Judicial System, No. 2, 2017)

6. "The Limitations of Environmental Public Interest Litigation Defendants and Their Overcoming", Global Law Review, No. 5, 2016.

7. "On the Trial Object of Environmental Public Interest Litigation", Legal Science, No. 4, 2015. (Reprinted in full in China Social Science Digest, No. 1, 2016)

8. "Identification of the Case Guidance Function of Typical Environmental Cases: A Sample of 32 Typical Environmental Cases Published by the Supreme People's Court", Law, No. 10, 2015.

9. "Exploration of the Specialization of Energy Litigation in China", Global Law Review, No. 6, 2014 (Reprinted in full in NPC Copy Materials-Litigation and Judicial System, February 2015)

10. "Private Law Responses to the Energy Crisis - Centering on Energy Contracts", Legal and Commercial Research, No. 2, 2014

11. "The Legal Realization of Energy Justice in Rural China", China Population - Resources and Environment, No. 12, 2016

12. "Play the role of law to improve the system of ecological civilization", People's Daily - Theory, December 18, 2013.

Publications:

1. "Monism to Diversity:An Empirical Study of Ecological Litigation", Law Press, 2016. (Sole author)

2. "Energy Contract Theory", China Social Science Press, 2013 ed. (Sole author)

3. Ecological Civilization and Energy Law Innovation, Hubei People's Publishing House, 2019 ed. (Co-authored)

4. "A Focused Review and Methodological Reflection on the Status of Environmental Justice Research in China", Hubei People's Publishing House 2019 ed. (co-author)

5. "Report on the Development of Environmental Justice in China (2017-2018)", People's Court Press, 2019 edition. (Co-author〉)

6. "China Environmental Justice Development Report (2015-2017)", People's Court Press, 2018 edition. (Co-authored)

7. Specialization of Environmental Justice:A Survey of the Current Situation and Institutional Reconstruction, Law Publishing House 2016 ed. (Co-author)

8. The Theory and Practice of Environmental Damage Compensation Law, China University of Political Science and Law Press 2013 ed. (co-authored)

Honors and Awards:

The 6th "Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Legal Worker of Hubei Province".

Work Experience:

China Environmental Protection Association (2004-2005, participated in the establishment)

Law School of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Lecturer in 2008, Associate Professor in 2013, Professor in 2016, Doctoral Supervisor in 2017)

Hanjiang Intermediate People's Court, Hubei Province (2009-2010, attachment)

Columbia University School of Law, U.S.A. (2010-2011, Visiting Scholar, Annual Fellow of the Institute of Public Interest Law)

Vermont Law School, U.S.A. (2011-2012, Visiting Scholar)