Staff profile

Dr. Xinyan Zhao is a Teaching Fellow in Law at Durham Law School. He earned his Master's degree and PhD with distinction from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. As an expert in international trade law, Xinyan focuses particularly on the intersection of trade policies and sustainable development. His scholarly contributions include several publications in the field of international trade law, and one of his most recent research papers is set to be published in the Journal of World Trade in 2025. He has presented his work at prestigious international forums, such as the Biennial Global Conferences of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) in Milano (2021) and Bogotá (2023).

Before joining Durham, Xinyan was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy at the University of Sussex, and he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Montreal in Canada. 

 

• WTO Law
• Free Trade Agreements
• International Dispute Settlement
• Sustainable Development Issues

Chapter in book

• Zhao, X. (2023). Sustainable Public Procurement: A Knight Guarding the Global Green Recovery in the Post-Pandemic Era?. In European Yearbook of International Economic Law (1-28). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/8165_2023_109
• Zhao, X. (2022). The WTO Panel Report on US-Safeguard Measure on PV Products: A Decisive Victory for the Fight Against Climate Change?. In European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022 (175-203). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/8165_2022_88
• R. Ziegler, A., & Zhao, X. (2021). Global constitutionalism as a method in international economic law. . Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972369.00035

Journal Article

• Zhao, X. (in press). TESSD Negotiation: An Ugly Duckling or A White Swan?. Journal of World Trade, 59(2),

Monograph

• Zhao, X. (in press). Integrating the UN SDGs into WTO Law. Springer