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Wenliang ZHANG

Wenliang ZHANG

Wenliang ZHANG

Senior Counsel at Yu Du Consulting

Email: zhang.wenliang@hotmail.com

Dr. Wenliang Zhang, a Senior Counsel at Yu Du Consulting, is an expert in international commercial litigation, arbitration, and private international law. Holding dual PhDs from Ghent University and Wuhan University, he has an extensive academic and professional background, including serving as an arbitrator in complex cross-border disputes. As a published author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Zhang combines scholarly insight with practical experience to deliver strategic legal solutions for global clients.

Work Experience

Dr. Wenliang Zhang is a distinguished legal scholar and practitioner specializing in international commercial litigation, arbitration, and private international law. With dual PhDs from Ghent University (Belgium) and Wuhan University (China), Dr. Zhang brings a global perspective to complex legal issues, supported by his expertise in conflict of laws, international contracts, and intellectual property.

Dr. Zhang’s academic tenure includes a professorship at Renmin University of China Law School, Peking University Law School and visiting scholar positions at leading institutions like UC Davis School of Law. As a published author, he has contributed extensively to international legal scholarship, with multiple monographs, book chapters, and articles in top-tier journals such as the Chinese Journal of International Law the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. His works often focus on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, interim remedies, and evolving trends in international dispute resolution.

In practice, Dr. Zhang combines his academic insight with real-world application. He has served as an arbitrator in engineering, procurement, and construction contract disputes, provided expert amicus briefs for landmark cases involving Chinese judgment enforcement abroad, and acted as a part-time lawyer handling complex cross-border legal matters.

Dr. Zhang’s work reflects his commitment to bridging the gap between theory and practice, offering clients and collaborators unparalleled legal insight into the challenges and opportunities of international legal affairs.

Selected Publications

Monographs or Book Chapters

  • Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in China: Rules, Practice and Strategies (Kluwer Law International 2014).
  • Punitive Damages in China: Codification, Developments and Global Cooperation, in The Recognition and Enforcement of Punitive Damages Judgments Across the Globe (eds., Vanleenhove and Meurkens), Eleven, 2023, pp. 39-63.
  • China’s Private International Law, in Private International Law in BRICS (eds., Jolly and Khanderia), Hart Publisher, 2024, pp. 491-508.
  • Interlocutory Measures in International Litigation, Law Press China, 2024 (in Chinese)

Articles in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Navigating the New Era: the Emergence of China’s International Commercial Courts, Asia Pacific Law Review 32 (1), 41-59, 2024.
  • Recent Efforts in China’s Ambition to Become a Centre for International Commercial Litigation, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law), Volume 87 (3), pp. 497-531, 2023.
  • Wenliang Zhang, Haoxiang Ruan and William S. Dodge, China’s New Foreign State Immunity Law: Some Foreign Relations Aspects, Transanational Litigation Blog, 12 December 2023.
  • The Hague Judgments Convention and Mainland China-Hong Kong SAR Judgments Arrangement: Comparison and Prospects for Implementation, Chinese Journal of International Law, vol. 20(1), 2021.
  • Reciprocity in China-U.S. Judgments Recognition, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 43(5), 2020.
  • The 1971 and 2019 Hague Judgments Conventions: Compared and Whether China Would Change Its Attitude Towards The Hague, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Vol. 11(4), 2020.
  • Interim Remedies in Chinese Private International Law, Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XX, 2019.
  • Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Non-Monetary Judgments in China, Frontiers of Law in China, Vol. 2, 2018.
  • Sino–Foreign Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments: A Promising “Follow-Suit” Model?, Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 16(3), 2017.
  • Reflections on the Effects of Foreign Judgments in the Recognizing Country, Peking University Law Journal, Vol. 2, 2014.
  • Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in China: the Essentials and Strategies, Yearbook of Private International Law, Vol. XV, 2013/2014.
  • Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in China: A Call for Special Attention Paid to Both the “Due Service Requirement” and the “Principle of Reciprocity”, Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 12(1), 2013.
  • Reconocimiento y Ejecucion de Sentencias Extranjeras en China, Anuario Espanol de Derecho Internacional Privado, Vol. 11, 2011.