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Dr Tietie Zhang

Senior Lecturer

The City Law School Academic law programmes

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About

Overview

Dr Tietie “Frank” Zhang joined The City Law School as a Senior Lecturer in Law in June 2022. Prior to that, he held the post of Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law since January 2016.

Dr Zhang’s main research areas include international commercial arbitration, international trade law, and the Chinese legal system. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Zhang received his law degrees from both China and the US. Before joining academia, he worked in a leading Chinese law firm in Beijing, practicing in the field of international commercial dispute resolution.

Qualifications

  • JSD, Cornell University Law School, United States
  • LLM, Cornell University Law School, United States
  • JM, Peking University Law School, China
  • BA, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China

Employment

  • Senior Lecturer in Law, The City Law School, United Kingdom, June 2022 - present
  • Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law, The University of Sheffield School of Law, United Kingdom, January 2016 - June 2022

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin) and English

Research students

2ndsupervisor

  • Daria Efimova, Research Student

Publications

Publications by category

Books (2)

  • Zhang, T. (2018). Ad Hoc Arbitration in China. Routledge. ISBN 9781351185813.
  • Barelli, M. and Zhang, T. (Eds.), Chinese Law in A Global Context. Hart (forthcoming).

Chapters (4)

  • Zhang, T. and Zeng, J. (2023). Personality Rights. In Bu, Y. (Ed.), Chinese Civil Code: The Specific Parts (pp. 243-272). C.H.BECK, HART, NOMOS.
  • Zhang, T. (2023). Arbitration and the Pandemic. In Fan, K. and Weng, C.X.-.C. (Eds.), COVID-19 and International Economic Law: China and a Changing World (pp. 195-220). SAL, ACADEMY PUBLISHING.
  • Zhang, T. (2013). Standard Form Contracts. In Bu, Y. (Ed.), Chinese Civil Law (pp. 81-86). C.H.Beck.
  • Zhang, T. (2013). Particular Types of Contracts. In Bu, Y. (Ed.), Chinese Civil Law (pp. 87-116). C.H.Beck.

Journal articles (8)

  • Zhang, T. (2025). The Misconception of an Arbitration Agreement’s Scope under Chinese Law: Controversial Interpretation by Chinese Courts. Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 20(2), pp. 324-346. doi:10.1017/asjcl.2026.10015

    [publisher’s website]

  • Zhang, T. (2025). 论宽泛解释仲裁协议范围的必要性 (The Need to Interpretate an Arbitration Agreement’s Scope Broadly). 中国政法大学学报 (Journal of CUPL), (1), pp. 199-214
  • Zhang, T. (2024). Narrow and Problematic Interpretation of an Arbitration Agreement’s Scope under Chinese Law: The Missing Pro-Arbitration Presumptive Rule. Hong Kong Law Journal, 54(1), pp. 181-204

    [publisher’s website]

  • Zhang, T. (2021). 商事仲裁在我国的法律移植及其影响 (Legal Transplant of Arbitration in China and Its Effects). 钱塘法律评论 (Hangzhou Law Journal), (1), pp. 136-164
  • Zhang, T. (2020). 我国法律制度对商事仲裁性质的误解——从临时仲裁谈起 (The Misconception of Arbitration Under Chinese Law: From the Perspective of Ad Hoc Arbitration). 北方法学 (Northern Legal Science), (4), pp. 98-110
  • Zhang, T. (2019). 无法禁止的临时仲裁及当事人的应对策略——兼谈仲裁协议准据法及《纽约公约》 (The Unbannable Ad Hoc Arbitration and How Parties Should React: On the Law Governing an Arbitration Agreement and the New York Convention). 师大法学 (ECNU Law Review), (1), pp. 96-122
  • Zhang, T. (2017). Judicial Sovereignty and Public Policy Under Chinese Arbitration Law. American Review of International Arbitration, 28(4), pp. 369-403
  • Zhang, T. (2013). Enforceability of Ad Hoc Arbitration Agreements in China: China’s Incomplete Ad Hoc Arbitration System. Cornell International Law Journal, 46(2), pp. 361-399