ZHANG Wei
Education
UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, May 2012
Fields of Concentration: Law and Economics; Property Law
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
LL.M., June 2005
Waseda University Graduate School of Law, Tokyo, Japan
M.A. in Law, March 2004
Fudan University Law School, Shanghai, China
B.A. in Law, with Highest Honor, July 2000
Appointments
Assitant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University (since Jan 2013)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University (fall 2010, fall 2011)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley (fall 2008 to spring 2010)
Published Papers
The Paradoxes of Secured Landing: Is There a Less Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy?
16 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (2014)
Some Reflections on the Evolution Theory of Common Law and Its Implications on China’s Leading Case System
1 Fudan Law Review (2014)
Numerus Clausus Revisited: A Review of Literature and a Change in Perspective
13 Academia Sinica Law Journal (2013)
Whose Right and Which Remedy? A Legal and Economic Reflection on a Recent Decision by the Supreme Court of Japan
9 Law and Social Sciences (2012)
A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Conflict of Property Rights on Generic Names: Based on the “Little Sheep” Trademark Dispute (with Ming Yang)
2010 – 4 Tsinghua Law Review (2010)
Quantitative Methods and Causality
6 Law and Social Sciences (2010)
Bailment or Lease: A Legal and Economic Analysis
29 Cross-Strait Law Review (2010)
Do “Sea Turtles” Creep Faster Than “Soft-shell Turtles”: A Quantitative Study of Academic Performance of Law Faculty in Premier Chinese Law Schools
4 Guang Hua Law Review (2009)
Some Reflections on Su Li’s Economic Analysis of the “Hai Rui Theorem”
5 Law and Social Sciences (2009)
Numerus Clausus: An Economic Perspective
2006 – 4 Social Sciences in China (2006)
Is the Contractor More Secure with a Priority Right? A Functional Analysis of Article 286 of PRC Contract Law
Vol. 7 No. 1 Peking University Law Review (2005)
On the Effectiveness of the Restrictions Governing Life in a Common Interest Community: A Comparative Study between American and Japanese Law
32 Civil and Commercial Law Review (2004)
A Preliminary Analysis of the Amendments to the Japanese Secured Transaction Law
Vol. 5 No. 2 Peking University Law Review (2004)
The Purge of Mortgage in Japanese Civil Law
24 Civil and Commercial Law Review (2002)
The Influence of Offeror’s Death or Incapacity on the Effect of Offer
2000 – 1 Contemporary Law Studies (2000)
Conference Papers
Weak Law v. Strong Ties: An Empirical Study of Business Investment, Law, and Political Connections in China (with Ji Li)
25th Annual Conference of American Law and Economics Association
Columbia University, 2015
Law and Economics and the Legal Practice in China: A Footnote to the Lawyers’ Way of Thinking
2nd Annunal Conference on Law and Social Sciences in China
Southwest University of Political Science and Law, 2014
The Paradoxes of Secured Landing: Is There a Less Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy?
SMU-Queen Mary Law Faculty Workshop
Singapore Management University, 2014
The Evolution of the Law of Torts in China: A Bird’s Eye View
10th Annual Conferenece of the Ascian Law and Economics Association
National University of Taiwan, 2014
Some Thoughts on the Development of Law and Economics in China
4th Conference on the Development of Law in the Greater-China Area
Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, 2014
Some Thoughts on the Jury System in China
Rule of Law in Shanghai: Symposium on Theoretical Innovation and Judicial Reform, Shanghai Acadamy of Social Sciences, 2013
Justice in the Shadow of Power: Understanding the Limits of Civil Justice Reform in China thourgh Entrepreneurs’ (Un)willingness to Use Courts
7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Stanford Law School, 2012
Work-in-Progress
Judicial Performance Indicators at Work: An Empirical Study of the Medical Malpractice Litigations in Shanghai
Other Academic Works/activities
Co-translator (English – Mandarin), Solomon’s Knot, How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations, by Robert Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer, published by Peking University Press, 2014
Translator (English – Mandarin), Why Is the Common Law Efficient?, by Paul Rubin; published in 1 Fudan Law Review, 2014
Co-translator (Mandarin – English), Chinese Civil Code (Draft), by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010
Translator (Japanese – Mandarin), On Claims Arising Out of Property Rights, by Teruaki Tayama;published in 3 Fudan Civil and Commercial Law Review, December 2004
Membership
American Law and Economics Association
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
Bar Admission
State of New York
Languages
Mandarin (native); English (fluent); Japanese (fluent)
