Dr Tietie (Frank) Zhang

School of Law

Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law

Module Convenor: UG Law with Chinese Law

Tietie.Zhang@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6717

Bartolomé House

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Dr Tietie (Frank) Zhang
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND

Profile: 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

Research interests

Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law Research Cluster.

Publications

Zhang T (2017) Judicial Sovereignty and Public Policy under Chinese Arbitration Law. American Review of International Arbitration, 28(4). View this article in WRRO
Zhang T (2013) Enforceability of Ad Hoc Arbitration Agreements in China: China’s Incomplete Ad Hoc Arbitration System. Cornell International Law Journal, 46(2).

Zhang T (2013) Particular Types of Contracts, Chinese Civil Law Munich & Oxford: Beck/Hart.
Zhang T (2013) Standard Form Contracts In Bu Y (Ed.), Chinese Civil Law Munich & Oxford: Beck/Hart.

Research group

Teaching interests: 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

Postgraduate

Professional activities

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)

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