U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law

Academic residencies provide visiting scholars not only an opportunity to acquire substantive knowledge in various topics in American and international environmental law but also access to VLS's extensive environmental legal studies collection, one of the most comprehensive and well-organized in the country.

2011-2012

STATE ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION

XING Yiteng
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from January to July 2012. Xing Yiteng has worked for the State Electricity Regulatory Commission of China (SERC) since 2003 and focuses on regulating electricity supply as well as demand side management(DSM). He led the drafting of the Chinese National Standard, "Specification of Electricity Supply Service" and was involved in the drafting of "Rules of Electricity Demand Side Management".

STATE ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION

 ZUO Yuan
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from January to July 2012. Zuo Yuan has worked for the State Electricity Regulatory Commission of China (SERC) since 2007. She is concentrating on tarrif and finance regulation of electricity industry, and participated in price policy implementations and national wide price inspections.

 

China University of Political Science and Law

Professor YU Wenxuan
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from February 2011 to February 2012.
Professor Yu is an Associate Professor at CUPL and has provided a significant amount of research and consulting services to the Chinese government on environmental and energy law development. His current research areas include agricultural genetically modified organism legislation, petroleum and natural gas legislation, natural resource property rights and energy legislation.

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

ZHANG Zhongmin
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from August 2011 to August 2012.
Zhang Zhongmin is an Assistant Professor of Law at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law where he also earned his LL.B, LL.M and PhD. He was involved in establishing the All-China Environmental Federation (2004-2005), acted as a judge in Hubei Hanjiang Intermediate Court (2009-2010) and as a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (2010-2011). His research interests include environmental litigation, the judicial system and energy law.

 

Wuhan Donghu University

XIONG Xiaoqing
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from August 2011 to August 2012.
Xiong Xiaoqing is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wuhan Donghu University and a PhD candidate and research fellow at the Environmental and Resources Law Institute of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. She was a visiting PhD candidate at Taiwan Chengchi University in 2009 and a member of the Environmental Justice Program at Vermont Law School in 2010. Her current research areas include environmental dispute resolution, environmental litigation and environmental justice.

 

Zhongnan University of Economics & Law

ZHANG Bao
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from August 2011 to February 2012.
Zhang Bao earned his LL.B and LL.M degrees from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and was an Assisstant Professor of Law at Nangchang University.  He currently serves as a PhD candidate and research fellow at Environmental and Resources Law Institute at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Zhang Bao's current research areas include environmental torts, environmental litigation and environmental health law.

 

Gansu Political Science and Law Institute

GUO Wu
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from August 2011 to August 2012.
Professor Guo is an Assistant Professor of Law at Gansu Political Science and Law Institute, a PhD candidate and research fellow at Research Institute of Environmental Law in Wuhan University. He was the editorial director of Western Law Review and the part-time journal editor of the Journal of Gansu Political Science and Law Institute. During the past several years, he was engaged in the basic theory of environmental law, especially in the methodology of environmental law research. His current research area is environmental customary law.

Changsha University of Science and Technology

ZHANG Minchun
Academic residency at Vermont Law School from August 2011 to Feburary 2012.
Zhang Minchun is an Assistant Professor of Law at Changsha University of Science and Technology. She earned her masters degree from Hunan Normal University and is a PhD candidate at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Her current research areas include environmental judicial reform, environmental liability and climate change law.