Wang Jin

Professor Wang Jin is now a full professor at Peking University Law School, the Director of Peking University Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Institute, and the Director of Peking University Nuclear Policy and Law Research Center. Meanwhile, he serves as a Chinese member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Vice President of the Environmental Law Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and an expert consultant for the Trial Division on Environment and Resources in the Supreme Court. He also served as Director of the Professional Committee on Environment, Resources and Energy Law of All China Lawyers Association from 2001 to 2014.

Professor Wang Jin received his Ph.D degree in environmental law from Peking University Law School in 1997. Prior to this, he earned a Master of Law from Wuhan University Law School in 1991 and Bachelor of Medicine from Wuhan Medical College in 1983. During the Ph.D study in Peking University, he was sent as a visiting scholar to Uppsala University in Sweden in 1995 to research environmental legislation and as an exchange Ph.D candidate to Hosei University in Japan to study Japanese environmental law (between 1996 and 1997). Besides, he once served as a teaching assistant and then as a lecturer at Wuhan University Law School from 1986 to 1994, and as a public health physician at Wuhan Qingshan Health and Epidemic Prevention Station from 1983 to 1986.

Professor Wang Jin is the author or co-author (co-translator) of more than 20 academic books or textbooks and over 100 academic papers published in famous Chinese and foreign legal and/or environmental science journals. He is the author of Environmental Law(third edition in 2014, and first edition in 2006),which is among the legal textbooks under the national Tenth Five-Year Plan for regular institutions of higher learning by the Ministry of Education. He also had his representative academic books, Concept and Value Pursuit of Environmental Law——A Study on the Objectives of Environmental Legislation, published by Law Press in 2000, and Comparison of EIA in China and Foreign Countries——On Due Process of Law in Decisions on Environment and Development published by Peking University Press in 2006.

Since getting involved in revising the Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (for Trial Implementation) in 1986, Professor Wang Jin has taken part in drafting, demonstrating or revising all China’s environment and resources protection laws, nuclear energy and nuclear safety laws and key environmental, natural resources and energy regulations and rules. In December 2005, he, together with several professors and students in Peking University Law School, filed the first civil environmental public interest litigation against China National Petroleum Corporation on behalf of natural objects in the extraordinary water contamination accident in the Songhua River.