CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr Zinian ZHANG (张子年博士)
Lecturer in Law, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK
(January 2016)
INTRODUCTION
Dr ZHANG is currently a lecturer in commercial law at School of Law, University of Leeds.
From 2014 to 2015, he was a research fellow at Centre for Cross Border Commercial Law in
Asia (CEBCLA), School of Law, Singapore Management University, and remains as an
honorary associate fellow afterwards.
He studied law at Durham University for both his LLM and PhD degrees from 2008 to 2014;
over the years between 2003 and 2008, he registered as a part-time JD student at Zhejiang
University, China, where he earned his first law degree.
He practised law in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province of China, from 1999 to
2008. Before being called into the bar in 1999, he worked in Hangzhou Toothpaste
Manufacturing Factory, a state-owned enterprise, after graduating as a mechanic engineering
student from Jingdezhen University of Technology, Jiangxi, China in 1995.
ADRRESS
R2.25, Liberty Building, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS2 9JT
Office Tel: + 44 (0) 113 343 9942, Email: z.zhang2@leeds.ac.uk
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Zinian Zhang and Roman Tomasic, ‘Corporate Reorganisation Law Reforms in China:
Findings from a Province of Zhejiang’ (2016) Asian Journal of Comparative Law
(Forthcoming)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Corporate Reorganisation of China’s Listed Companies: Winners and
Losers” 2016 (16) Journal of Corporate Law Studies
Zinian Zhang, ‘Enhance Retail Investors’ Access to the Corporate Bond Market:
The Latest Development in Singapore’ (2015) Company Lawyer (forthcoming)
Zinian Zhang, ‘In Search of Debt Restructuring for Distressed Asian Companies in England:
A Case Study of Vietnam’s Vinashin’ (2015) 16 Australian Journal of Asian Law 1-15
Roman Tomasic and Zinian Zhang, ‘From Global Convergence in China’s Enterprise
Bankruptcy Law 2006 to Divergence in Implementation: The Case of Corporate
Reorganizations in China’ (2012) 12 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 295-332
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Book Chapters
Roman Tomasic and Zinian Zhang, ‘The Political Determinants of Corporate
Reorganization in China’ in Christoph Antons (ed), The Routledge Handbook on Asia Law
(Routledge 2014)
Roman Tomasic and Zinian Zhang, ‘China’s Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: Implementation
of the Corporate Reorganization Provisions’ in John Garrick (ed), Law and Policy for
China’s Market Socialism (Routledge 2012)
Conference Papers
Zinian Zhang, ‘Corporate Reorganizations of China’s Listed Companies, Winners and
Losers’ (2015 Australian Corporate Law Teacher Association Annual Conference,
Melbourne University Law School, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 February 2015)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Corporate Reorganisations in China: Recent Developments and Challenges’
(The European China Law Studies Association 2014 Annual Conference, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 15-16 November 2014)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Judicial Management of Corporate Debt Restructuring in China - The Case
of Zhejiang’ (The Third East Asian Law and Society Conference, Shanghai, China, March
2013) (with Roman Tomasic)
Zinian Zhang, ‘The History of Chinese Bankruptcy Law — Cultural or Institutional
Resistance to Western Influence?’ (2013 Annual Business History Conference, Columbus,
Ohio, USA, March 2013)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Corporate Debt Restructuring in China: a Case of Zhejiang’ (the 7th Annual
General Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, Helsinki University,
Finland, September 2012)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Enhancing China’s Nascent Corporate Rescue Regime’ (the 6th Insolvency
Research Conference jointly held by Insolvency Service and Law School of University
College London, London, April 2012)
Roman Tomasic and Zinian Zhang ‘From Enterprise Bankruptcy Law Making to
Implementation: Convergence and Divergence in Corporate Rescue and Reorganization Law
and Practice in China’ (Tsinghua University Commercial Law Conference, Beijing,
November 2011)
Roman Tomasic and Zinian Zhang, ‘The implementation of Chapter 11 - style
reorganization in China (2006-2010)’ (INSOL Annual Conference, Singapore, March 2011)
Invited Presentations
Zinian Zhang, ‘Corporate Reorganization of China’s Listed Companies: Winners and
Losers’ (School of Law, SOAS, University of London, June 2015)
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Zinian Zhang, ‘Financial Crisis and Corporate Rescue’ (St. Chad’s College Collegiate
Studies Programme Research Forum, Durham, UK, March 2012)
Zinian Zhang, ‘Global Economic Recession and Corporate Rescue’ (The Ustinov Seminar,
Durham, UK, November 2011)
Zinian Zhang, ’Should We Rescue Failed Companies?’ (St. Chad’s College Collegiate
Studies Programme Research Forum, Durham, UK, March 2011)
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