Founding Affiliates

Prof. Tianbao Qin is a Staff Member of our Academy, and National Changjiang Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law, and serves as the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL), Deputy Director of the Research Center of the Supreme Court of China on Environmental-related Judicial Theory, Professor of China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies and the European Studies Centre, Wuhan University; Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law; Member and Vice Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS. He was Vice Dean for the School of Law, and was Deputy Chief Judge of Environmental Chamber of the Supreme Court of China.

Currently, he is concentrating his research on the law and policy concerning biodiversity and biotechnology, water and oceans, climate change and energy, environment and health, and trans-boundary environmental issues. Prof. Qin is author of several books and more than 100 articles in these fields.

His recent publications include:

“Payments for ecosystem services in transboundary water allocation cases: An approach for China and its neighbors”, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 2020 (Corresponding Author)

“A Comparative Analysis of Fishing Rights from a Transaction Cost Perspective”, Ecological Economics 153 (2018) 89–99 (Corresponding Author)

“Dispute over the Applicable Scope of the Svalbard Treaty: A Chinese Lawyer's Perspective”, Journal of East Asia and International Law, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2015, pp. 149-170

“Impacts of Overlapping Protected Areas on Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of the Three-Parallel Rivers Area”, Environmental Law & Practice Review, Vol. 2&3, 2013, pp. 31-50, ISSN 2319-1856 (Corresponding Author)

“Review of the Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia”, Journal of Environmental Law, Oxford University Press, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2008, pp.493-496

Bionote:

Dr Qin received his LL. B and LL.M degrees from Wuhan University. He finished his Doktorarbeit (doctoral dissertation) in Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt in Germany and obtained his Dr. iur degree from Wuhan University. He has been a Post-doctor Research Fellow in Ghent University, Belgium.

He is a Legal Advisor for the Ministry of Water Resources, Hubei Provincial Parliament and Wuhan Municipal Government, a Legislative Expert for China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environmental, Ministry of Agriculture, and Hubei Provincial Parliament, and headed or participated in drafting of several major environmental bills. He is an Advisor for Chinese negotiations on biodiversity, ocean and climate change issues; and he was a Legislative Expert for the UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions, and an Environmental Law Expert for several projects of International Institutions (GEF, UNDP, ADB) in China. He was the Head of Environmental Rights Department of the Centre of Protection of Rights of Disadvantaged Citizens (CPRDC) which is a prestigious NGO for Human Rights in China.

He was a Visiting Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology from January to March of 2018, a Distinguished International Environmental Law Scholar at the Vermont Law School in July, 2017, an EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Turin from December 2014 to February, 2015, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Göttingen from June 2012 to June 2014, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from June to July 2011, a Visiting Professor at Ghent University in Belgium from April to September 2011 and from July to August 2006, at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica in Chinese Taipei from December 2008 to May 2009; and at the University of Manchester in the UK from June to September 2007; a DAAD Scholarship holder at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt in Germany from June 2003 to June 2005.