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Staff Profile of Dr Zhen Jing

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Name:

Dr Zhen Jing

Position:

Lecturer in Law

Email:

Location:

Athrolys, College Road

Phone:

01248 38 3695

Dr Zhen Jing graduated from the Central University of Finance and Economics of China, Beijing (BA), University of Wales Swansea (MPhil), and Queen Mary, University of London (Ph.D). She joined the Bangor Law School as a Law Lecturer in October 2007, having previously been an Associate Professor in the Law School, Ocean University of China and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Holborn College, London, where she taught for three years several modules of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including Contract Law, International Trade Law, International Sale of Goods and Agency Contracts, Carriage of Goods by Sea, Marine Insurance and English Legal System. She also served as the Programme Leader of LLM in International Trade Law.

Current Teaching:

Undergraduate course:

  • Tort Law
  • English Legal System

LLM Commercial Law

  • International Sales Law
  • Insurance Law

Research Interests:

Zhen’s main research interests are in the areas of Commercial Law and Maritime Law, with particular interests in

  • International Trade Law
  • Insurance Law and Marine Insurance
  • Carriage of Goods by Sea

Zhen is supervising PhD students in the area of Marine Insurance and E-Commerce. She welcomes applications from candidates who wish to study for MPhil and PhD in these research areas.

Selected Publications:

  •  Zhen Jing.  The test of insurable interest: Legal interest or economic interest ?  Journal of Social Sciences (forthcoming, in Chinese) 2007
  • Zhen Jing.   Insured’s duty of disclosure and test of materiality in marine and non-marine insurance law in China. Journal of Business Law, 681-704, October 2006, Sweet and Maxwell.
  • Zhen Jing.  The Confusion between subrogation and assignment in the Insurance  Law of the People’s Republic of China 1995 – A critical analysis on article 44 of  the Insurance Law. Journal of Business Law, 608-626, November 2002,   Sweet and Maxwell.
  • Zhen Jing. The application of the principle of proximate cause in insurance law. Law Review (in Chinese), s399-410, 2002.