Biography

Dr Chi Zhang holds an LL.B. and Master of Law (Research) from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in Commercial Law from The University of Glasgow.

He joined The University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Commercial Law in 2019. Chi has previously taught business law at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) for two years.

Research interests

Chi's research interests are related to corporate Law, business trusts and investment funds law, financial investment law, with a particular focus on Chinese business law.  Currently he is working on a project regarding the international financial regulatory dimension of Belt & Road Initiatives, and he is also carrying out research on the internationalization of China’s securities regulation.

Publications

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Number of items: 38.

2025

Zhang, Meihui and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2025) The political economy of the fintech regulation in China and its implications. Computer Law and Security Review, 56, 106089. (doi: 10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106089)

2024

Zhang, Meihui, Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902, Li, Fenghua and Liu, Ziyu (2024) Financing the “Belt and Road Initiative” in the post-COVID-19 era towards sustainability: an overview of China’s green bond rules. In: Arimoro, Augustine Edobor, Igbokwe, Ezinee Mirian and Egbe, Tamaraoudoubra Tom (eds.) Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 170-195. ISBN 9781032591995 (doi: 10.4324/9781003453499-12)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2024) Featuring financial stability regulation in China: a two-decade review. Business Law Review, 45(3), pp. 82-87. (doi: 10.1080/14735970.2010.11419825)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2024) Justifying financial derivatives in China: a critical review of the new law on futures and derivatives 2022. Company Lawyer, 45(5), pp. 172-179.

2023

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Xin Zhang, Law and Practice of Debt Finance in Modern China: Cross-border Perspectives. Springer, Singapore, 2022. ISBN 9789811663420, xxvii + 314 pp., EUR 106.99 (Softcover). Austrian Review of International and European Law, 26(1), pp. 433-436. (doi: 10.1163/15736512-02601014)[Book Review]

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) From hard law to soft law: the evolution of green bond standards in China. Journal of Business Law, 2023(6), pp. 470-487.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Re-exploring the nature of dual ownership in English trusts: a Scottish law perspective. Trusts and Trustees, 29(1), pp. 62-78. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttac113)

Liu, Ziyu and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Developing countries being prospective players in climate governance: a case study of China’s carbon market. Journal of World Energy Law and Business, 16(1), pp. 29-44. (doi: 10.1093/jwelb/jwac044)

2022

Zhang, Meihui, Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902, Li, Fenghua and Liu, Ziyu (2022) Green finance as an institutional mechanism to direct the belt and Road Initiative towards sustainability: the case of China. Sustainability, 14(10), 6164. (doi: 10.3390/su14106164)

2021

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 and Liu, Ziyu (2021) One Belt, One Road, two routes regulation: regulatory interactions between China and host countries in the context of the Belt & Road Initiative. US-China Law Review, 18(5), pp. 205-226. (doi: 10.17265/1548-6605/2021.05.002)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2021) The political dimension of venture capital law in China. [Website]

Liu, Ziyu and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2021) Will the COVID-19 pandemic change Government’s rescue strategy? The emergence of the supportive bankruptcy enforcement approach in China. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 32(4), pp. 234-251.

2020

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) The segmented regulatory system of the bond markets in China: current situation, causes and reform. Capital Markets Law Journal, 15(2), pp. 175-190. (doi: 10.1093/cmlj/kmaa002)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) Securitisation, hedge fund and private equity: the systemic risks in organisational financing. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 35(3), pp. 123-126.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) Max Weber as a business law reformer: in memory of Weber’s centenary death. Cross-Domain Law and Politics Research, 2020(2), pp. 35-49.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) The political economy of China’s business organisation laws and its implications for legal transplantation: evidence from the venture capital industry. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 21(1), 7.

2019

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Towards a market-oriented business organization law system in China. Company Lawyer, 40(5), pp. 163-165.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Towards a collective regulatory system of private equity funds in China: Legislative progress and political challenges. European Business Law Review, 30(1), pp. 183-198.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Shareholder primacy and the corporate governance of the UK: Legislations, cases and its implications. Securities and Futures of China, 2019(2), pp. 87-96.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Legal Protection of Private Equity Investors in China: Practice, Challenges and Reform. Routledge. ISBN 9780367660420

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Public enforcement in China’s securities markets: is it a ‘law matter’? Law and Financial Markets Review, 13(4), pp. 244-249. (doi: 10.1080/17521440.2019.1663972)

2018

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) Can we tame the bankers? A critical review of the functions of the UK’s banking standards board. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 33(8), pp. 272-278.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) The limits of fiduciary duties in business organizations: the evidence from limited partnerships in the US and UK. European Company Law, 15(3), pp. 83-89.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) The corporate governance crises in venture capital investment of China: Case studies and legislative response. International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, 13(1), pp. 42-64.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) Mitigating or exacerbating the risk: A critical analysis of credit default swaps applied in private equity industry. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 29(1), pp. 51-60.

2017

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) The distorted governance model of venture capital limited partnerships in China: A political perspective. Business Law Review, 38(6), pp. 234-240.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) Venture capital investment trusts in China: Legal framework, challenges, and reform. Trusts and Trustees, 23(7), pp. 806-822. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttx100)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) Rethinking the dual ownership structure in English trusts: Origins, comparisons and functions. University of International Business and Economics Law Review, 2017(2), p. 155.

2016

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2016) London School of Economics and liberalism. Cultural Monthly, 30,

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2016) The legal nature of the barriers to IPO exit of private equity investment trust funds in China. Tribune of Economic Law, 2016(17), p. 157.

2015

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2015) The Evolution and Jurisprudential Implications of Fiduciary Duty in Organisational Law. OmniScriptum Management GmbH. ISBN 9783639815580

2014

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2014) The embarrassment of Roman Empire: Italian trust law in plight. Trust Weekly: Use Fortune Internal Reference(16), pp. 93-94.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2014) Trust or Legal Person: An Organizational Law Study of Western Political Traditions. 8th Annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference, King’s College London, London UK, 14-15 April 2014.

2013

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2013) Non-recognition of the principle of dual nationality and national development. China Economic Times, 2013, 1st March.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2013) Between history and future: A Review of Karl Popper’s Political Philosophy. Journal of Fuqing Branch of Fujian Normal University, 2013(1), p. 6.

2012

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) On the legal problems of junk mail. Citizens and Law, 2012(10), pp. 35-37.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) The private international law rules of trusts in Chinese legal system. Policy Research and Exploration, 2012(7), p. 59.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) Re-establish the accountability of the judicial system in China: A critical assessment of ‘The Third Five-year Reform Plan of the People’s Court of China 2009-2013’’. Legal System and Society, 2012(11), p. 73.

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Articles

Zhang, Meihui and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2025) The political economy of the fintech regulation in China and its implications. Computer Law and Security Review, 56, 106089. (doi: 10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106089)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2024) Featuring financial stability regulation in China: a two-decade review. Business Law Review, 45(3), pp. 82-87. (doi: 10.1080/14735970.2010.11419825)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2024) Justifying financial derivatives in China: a critical review of the new law on futures and derivatives 2022. Company Lawyer, 45(5), pp. 172-179.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) From hard law to soft law: the evolution of green bond standards in China. Journal of Business Law, 2023(6), pp. 470-487.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Re-exploring the nature of dual ownership in English trusts: a Scottish law perspective. Trusts and Trustees, 29(1), pp. 62-78. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttac113)

Liu, Ziyu and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Developing countries being prospective players in climate governance: a case study of China’s carbon market. Journal of World Energy Law and Business, 16(1), pp. 29-44. (doi: 10.1093/jwelb/jwac044)

Zhang, Meihui, Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902, Li, Fenghua and Liu, Ziyu (2022) Green finance as an institutional mechanism to direct the belt and Road Initiative towards sustainability: the case of China. Sustainability, 14(10), 6164. (doi: 10.3390/su14106164)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 and Liu, Ziyu (2021) One Belt, One Road, two routes regulation: regulatory interactions between China and host countries in the context of the Belt & Road Initiative. US-China Law Review, 18(5), pp. 205-226. (doi: 10.17265/1548-6605/2021.05.002)

Liu, Ziyu and Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2021) Will the COVID-19 pandemic change Government’s rescue strategy? The emergence of the supportive bankruptcy enforcement approach in China. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 32(4), pp. 234-251.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) The segmented regulatory system of the bond markets in China: current situation, causes and reform. Capital Markets Law Journal, 15(2), pp. 175-190. (doi: 10.1093/cmlj/kmaa002)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) Securitisation, hedge fund and private equity: the systemic risks in organisational financing. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 35(3), pp. 123-126.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) Max Weber as a business law reformer: in memory of Weber’s centenary death. Cross-Domain Law and Politics Research, 2020(2), pp. 35-49.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2020) The political economy of China’s business organisation laws and its implications for legal transplantation: evidence from the venture capital industry. Australian Journal of Asian Law, 21(1), 7.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Towards a market-oriented business organization law system in China. Company Lawyer, 40(5), pp. 163-165.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Towards a collective regulatory system of private equity funds in China: Legislative progress and political challenges. European Business Law Review, 30(1), pp. 183-198.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Shareholder primacy and the corporate governance of the UK: Legislations, cases and its implications. Securities and Futures of China, 2019(2), pp. 87-96.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Public enforcement in China’s securities markets: is it a ‘law matter’? Law and Financial Markets Review, 13(4), pp. 244-249. (doi: 10.1080/17521440.2019.1663972)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) Can we tame the bankers? A critical review of the functions of the UK’s banking standards board. Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 33(8), pp. 272-278.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) The limits of fiduciary duties in business organizations: the evidence from limited partnerships in the US and UK. European Company Law, 15(3), pp. 83-89.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) The corporate governance crises in venture capital investment of China: Case studies and legislative response. International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, 13(1), pp. 42-64.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2018) Mitigating or exacerbating the risk: A critical analysis of credit default swaps applied in private equity industry. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 29(1), pp. 51-60.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) The distorted governance model of venture capital limited partnerships in China: A political perspective. Business Law Review, 38(6), pp. 234-240.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) Venture capital investment trusts in China: Legal framework, challenges, and reform. Trusts and Trustees, 23(7), pp. 806-822. (doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttx100)

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2017) Rethinking the dual ownership structure in English trusts: Origins, comparisons and functions. University of International Business and Economics Law Review, 2017(2), p. 155.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2016) London School of Economics and liberalism. Cultural Monthly, 30,

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2016) The legal nature of the barriers to IPO exit of private equity investment trust funds in China. Tribune of Economic Law, 2016(17), p. 157.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2014) The embarrassment of Roman Empire: Italian trust law in plight. Trust Weekly: Use Fortune Internal Reference(16), pp. 93-94.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2013) Non-recognition of the principle of dual nationality and national development. China Economic Times, 2013, 1st March.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2013) Between history and future: A Review of Karl Popper’s Political Philosophy. Journal of Fuqing Branch of Fujian Normal University, 2013(1), p. 6.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) On the legal problems of junk mail. Citizens and Law, 2012(10), pp. 35-37.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) The private international law rules of trusts in Chinese legal system. Policy Research and Exploration, 2012(7), p. 59.

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2012) Re-establish the accountability of the judicial system in China: A critical assessment of ‘The Third Five-year Reform Plan of the People’s Court of China 2009-2013’’. Legal System and Society, 2012(11), p. 73.

Books

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2019) Legal Protection of Private Equity Investors in China: Practice, Challenges and Reform. Routledge. ISBN 9780367660420

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2015) The Evolution and Jurisprudential Implications of Fiduciary Duty in Organisational Law. OmniScriptum Management GmbH. ISBN 9783639815580

Book Sections

Zhang, Meihui, Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902, Li, Fenghua and Liu, Ziyu (2024) Financing the “Belt and Road Initiative” in the post-COVID-19 era towards sustainability: an overview of China’s green bond rules. In: Arimoro, Augustine Edobor, Igbokwe, Ezinee Mirian and Egbe, Tamaraoudoubra Tom (eds.) Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 170-195. ISBN 9781032591995 (doi: 10.4324/9781003453499-12)

Book Reviews

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2023) Xin Zhang, Law and Practice of Debt Finance in Modern China: Cross-border Perspectives. Springer, Singapore, 2022. ISBN 9789811663420, xxvii + 314 pp., EUR 106.99 (Softcover). Austrian Review of International and European Law, 26(1), pp. 433-436. (doi: 10.1163/15736512-02601014)[Book Review]

Conference or Workshop Item

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2014) Trust or Legal Person: An Organizational Law Study of Western Political Traditions. 8th Annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference, King’s College London, London UK, 14-15 April 2014.

Website

Zhang, Chi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-4902 (2021) The political dimension of venture capital law in China. [Website]

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Supervision

  • Wang, Xueqi - 'To what extent could the EU third country regime exert influences on global capital market regulatory rules?' 

I am willing to supervise PGR students of company law and financial law.

  • Wilczopolska, Paula Patrycja
    Regulatory development, its implications and impact on shaping automated advice services in financial markets.
  • Zhou, Shining
    Macroprudential Perspectives on Central Banks' Response to Systemic Risk in the Context of Climate Change

Teaching

  • Company Law (LL.B.)
  • Commercial Law (LL.B.)
  • Business Law (UG)
  • Financial Regulation (MSc)

Additional information

3rd November 2018   Conference Presentation   Shanghai, China

‘Rethinking the Legal Nature of Equitable Title in English Trusts: Origins, Comparisons and Functions’, presented at The 6th Forum on Comparative Law for Young Law Scholars held by China Comparative Law Society and East China Normal University.

29th January 2016   Conference Presentation   Glasgow, UK                                                  

‘Weak Fiduciary Duty Enforcement and Active Internal Governance of Private Equity Organizations in China’, presented at The International Workshop on ‘Enforcement Strategies in Financial Law’ held by The University of Glasgow.

11th January 2016   Conference Presentation   Liverpool, UK                                                     

‘The Protective Mechanisms for Private Equity Shareholders in Corporate Governance: China and UK’, presented at The University of Liverpool International Postgraduate Legal Conference 2016 held by The Liverpool Law School.

7th November 2014   Conference Presentation   California, US                                                               

‘How to Understand the Fiduciary Duty Rules of China Private Equity Investment Trusts: A Comparative Approach’, presented at The Workshop on Comparative Business and Financial Law 2014 held by American Society of Comparative Law • Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) and the Law School of The University of California, Davis.

7th July 2014   Conference Poster   Newcastle, UK

‘A Comparative Study on Venture Capital Investment Funds Regulation of Chinese and Anglo-American Legal Systems’, presented at North East PGR Law Forum Conference 2014 held by Newcastle University and Northumbria University.              

14th April 2014   Conference Presentation   London, UK

‘Trust or Legal Person: An Organizational Law Study of Western Political Traditions’, presented at The 8th Annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference held by the School of Law at King’s College London.