Staff Profile
Professor Sophia Tang
Visiting Professor
Professor Tang is a Visiting Professor at the 缅北禁地 Law School, a Professor at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law and an Associate Dean at the Wuhan Univerity Academy of International Law and Governance. Before that she held a Chair in Law and Commerce at the 缅北禁地. She had also taught law at the University of Aberdeen and University of Leeds.
Professor Tang is specialised in private international law, internet law, international commercial arbitration, and Chinese law, in which she has published extensively. Her articles appear in prestigious law journals, including ICLQ, Modern Law Review, Journal of Private International Law, Hong Kong Law Journal, Asia-Pacific Law Review, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, European Law Review, etc. Professor Tang's monograph Electronic Consumer Contracts in the Conflict of Laws (2nd., Hart, 2015) and article "Exclusive Choice of Forum Clauses in Electronic Consumer Contracts" (2005) 1 Journal of Private International Law 237 are cited by the Canadian Supreme Court in . Her co-authored book Conflict of Laws in the People's Republic of China (EEL, 2016) has received positive reviews from scholars in the UK, Australia, China and Singapore and four awards from China.
Professor Tang is an editor of conflictoflaws.net, the leading and most influential blog in conflict of laws which was ranked 33 of the top 100 UK law blogs. She is also a member of the advisory board of Journal of Private International Law. She is one of the authors of Cheshire, North and Fawcett: Private International Law (15th ed), the leading text in this field. She is a regular reviewer for many reputable law journals in the field and prestigious law publishers, including OUP, CUP, Hart, Edward Elgar, etc. She has provided public lectures and training for judges, government officials and legal practitioners in EU, UK, China and Macau. She has led research projects funded by the Carnegie Trust, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of PRC, Chinese Social Science Foundation, and European Commission. She serves as an expert for the European Commission DG Justice in the Justice programme and Horizon 2020, and for the National Science Centre in Poland. She is a member of the ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund peer review group.