Professor Zheng (Sophia) Tang is a Chair in Law and Commerce at the Newcastle University (UK) . Professor Tang is specialised in international commercial dispute resolution, transnational consumer law, transnational e-commerce and technology law, and Chinese law and doing business in China, in which she has published extensively. Her academic publications in cross-border electronic consumer contracts were cited by the Canadian Supreme Court and her monograph on Chinese conflict of laws have received three awards from China. Professor Tang has provided public lectures and training for judges, government officials and legal practitioners in EU, UK, China and Macau, and frequently speak in international academic and professional conferences on international dispute resolution, consumer protection, Chinese law and business, etc., in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, USA, China, Macau, Brazil, Germany, and Belgium.
Professor Tang received her Bachelors degree in International Law at the Wuhan University (China), LLM in International Business Law at Manchester University (UK), and PhD degree at the University of Birmingham supported by the Postgraduate Research Scholarship. She is also a barrister-at-law and an accredited mediator.
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 in 2017. She is also a member of the advisory board of Journal of Private International Law and an editor of the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law. She is one of the authors of Cheshire, North and Fawcett: Private International Law (15th ed), the leading text in this field.
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.
