Founding Affiliates

  • Patricia Wouters

    Founding Director of the Academy

    Patricia Wouters is the founding Director of the International Water Law Academy at the China Institute of Boundary and …

  • David J. Devlaeminck

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    David J. Devlaeminck is Lecturer at the School of Law, Chongqing University and an affiliate member of the International…

  • Lingjie Kong

    Founding Staff Member of the Academy

    Prof. Lingjie Kong is a Founding Member of the Academy, and a Professor of International Law, and Associate Dean for Res…

  • Jing LEE

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Jing LEE is a Founding Affiliate Member of our Academy. She is a consultant with UKM Pakarunding Pte Ltd where she is pa…

  • Owen McIntyre

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Owen McIntyre is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (National University of Ireland), where he se…

  • Tianbao Qin

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Prof. Tianbao Qin is a Staff Member of our Academy, and National Changjiang Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law, …

  • Alistair Rieu-Clarke

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Alistair Rieu-Clarke is Affiliate of the Academy. He is a Professor of Law at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He …

  • Otto Spijkers

    Founding Staff Member of the Academy

    Otto Spijkers is Professor of International Law at Wuhan University's China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies …

  • Su Tu

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Dr. Su Tu is an Affiliate Member of our Academy and a research fellow at the Collaborative Innovation Center for Territo…

  • Sergei Vinogradov

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Sergei Vinogradov (LLB, PhD Moscow State University) is a Visiting Professor of the International Water Law Academy at t…

  • Xiaoyu Xiong

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Ms. Xiaoyu Xiong is the Vice Dean for administrative, financial, human resource management, and student affairs at Wuhan…

  • Fan Zhang

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Dr. Fan Zhang is Lecturer of International Law at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) of Wuhan Uni…

Fan Zhang

Dr. Fan Zhang is Lecturer of International Law at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) of Wuhan University, and permanent staff member of the International Water Law Academy (IWLA). She teaches the International Water Law course to second-year graduate students annually in CIBOS. As member of the IWLA, Dr. Zhang is involved in teaching and research in the field of international water law, territorial law, boundary management and general issues of public international law. Her publications include:

The Globalization of the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and Its Prospective Impacts on China, in Wuhan University International Law Review, Volume. 19 No.2 (2016), pp. 281-299.

International Frontiers and Boundaries: Law, Politics and Geography (translation), co-translator, published by China Social Sciences Press, 2017, ISBN 978-7-5097-8841.

 

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Dr. Zhang received a PhD degree in International Law from Wuhan University School of Law, before that, she had a master degree in law, a bachelor's degree in law and a bachelor's degree in economics at Wuhan University. She also studied in the LLM program at New York University and the graduate-level program in international studies at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. She was academic visitor to the University of Dundee in 2017. She participated in the eighth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (2018) with the delegation from the Ministry of Water Resources of China as representative from academia.