Dr Tietie (Frank) Zhang
School of Law
Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law
Module Convenor: UG Law with Chinese Law
+44 114 222 6717
Full contact details
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I joined the University of Sheffield School of Law as a Lecturer in January, 2016. Prior to that, I completed my doctorate study at Cornell University Law School, where I also taught as an Adjunct Professor. My main research areas include international commercial arbitration, international trade law, and the Chinese legal system. Before joining academia, I worked in a leading Chinese law firm in Beijing, practicing in the field of commercial dispute resolution.
- Qualifications
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- JSD, Cornell University Law School
- LLM, Cornell University Law School
- JM, Peking University Law School
- BA, Tianjin Foreign Studies University
- Research interests
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- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Commercial Law
- International Dispute Resolution
- International Trade Law
- Chinese Legal System
Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law Research Cluster.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
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Chapters
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- Research group
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Areas of research supervision
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Trade Law
- Chinese Legal System
- Teaching interests
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Having been trained in law schools in both China and the U.S., I am familiar with teaching methodologies and philosophies in both civil law and common law traditions. In my teaching, I try to combine the two distinct approaches and make my students benefit from both styles. I firmly believe that critical thinking ability is essential to law students and lawyers. My job as a law teacher is to train the law students to think like lawyers. During this process, the ability to analyse complicated issues is vital. Therefore, in my class, I engage in rich discussions, during which I constantly question, challenge, push, and encourage students in an intellectual setting so that they may identify the issues before them, think about these issues carefully, and make a good argument or find a proper solution. At the same time, I will also summarise and emphasise on the core issues regarding a certain topic, which may help students better understand certain theories and avoid being confused by conflicting debates.
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate
- World Trade Law
- International Commercial Arbitration (Convenor)
- International Mooting (Convenor)
- Legal and Political Culture of China (Convenor)
- Chinese Law and Legal System (Convenor)
Postgraduate
- International Commercial Arbitration (Convenor)
- WTO Law and Domestic Regulation
- Trade Remedies in WTO Law
- Professional activities
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- Member, Bar of the State of New York
- Member, Bar of the People’s Republic of China (inactive)
Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures
- Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Ad Hoc Arbitration in China (November 24, 2018)
- Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Choice of Law Issues in International Commercial Arbitration (November 23, 2018)
- Fudan Univeristy Law School, International Perspectives of Chinese Contract Law (March 8, 2018)
- University of Sheffield School of Law, 2017 UK IVR Annual Conference: Law, Rationality and the Market, Ad Hoc Arbitration in China (November 17, 2017)
- University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law, 2017 World Chinese Legal Philosophy Summit, Judicial Sovereignty and Public Policy Under Chinese Arbitration Law (October 30, 2017)
- Law and Society Association 2017 International Meeting, Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World, Judicial Sovereignty and Public Policy Under Chinese Law: An Arbitration Perspective (June 20, 2017)
- East China University of Political Science and Law, Legal Education in the US and the UK (March 22, 2017)