Taisu Zhang

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Taisu Zhang
Education Yale University (BA, PhD, JD)
OccupationLegal scholar
Employer Yale Law School

Taisu Zhang is a scholar of comparative law, legal history, private law theory, and Chinese law and politics. He is a professor of law at Yale Law School. [1]

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Education

Zhang holds a BA in history and mathematics (2005) and PhD in history (2014) from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School (2008). [1]

Academic career

Zhang is the author of two books, The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which won the 2024 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association, [2] and The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Presidents Book Award from the Social Science History Association and the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize from the Macmillan Center at Yale University. [3] [4]

Zhang is a co-editor of the Studies in Legal History book series at Cambridge University Press, the flagship series of the American Society for Legal History. [5] He was an associate professor at Duke University School of Law between 2014 and 2016. [6] He holds an honorary position as a Global Faculty member at the Peking University Law School. [7]

Publications

Books

Selected Articles

References

  1. 1 2 "Taisu Zhang | Yale Law School". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Prizes". ssha.org. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  3. ↑ "Social Science History". ssha.org. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  4. ↑ "International Book Prize Winners Archive". macmillan.yale.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  5. ↑ "About Our Editors | American Society for Legal History". aslh.net. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  6. ↑ "Taisu Zhang | Duke University School of Law". law.duke.edu. 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  7. ↑ "Peking University Law School". en.law.pku.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  8. ↑ Zhang, Taisu (2023). The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions. Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-51868-7.
  9. ↑ Amazon.com. ISBN   1107141117.
  10. ↑ Zhang, Taisu; Xu, Yiqing; Fu, Yiqin (April 24, 2025). "Does Legality Produce Political Legitimacy? An Experimental Approach". Journal of Legal Studies . 55 (forthcoming).
  11. ↑ Zhang, Taisu & John D. Morley. "The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation". www.yalelawjournal.org. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  12. ↑ Zhang, Taisu, Shyamkrishna Balganesh (2021-01-10). "Legal Internalism In Modern Histories of Copyright". Harvard Law Review. Retrieved 2025-04-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Zhang, Taisu (2020-01-01). "Beyond Information Costs: Preference Formation and the Architecture of Property Law". Journal of Legal Analysis. 12: 1–78. doi: 10.1093/jla/laz007 . ISSN   2161-7201.
  14. ↑ Zhang, Taisu, Tom Ginsburg (2019). "China's Turn Toward Law". Virginia Journal of International Law .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Zhang, Taisu (2016-01-01). "Cultural Paradigms in Property Institutions". Yale Journal of International Law. 41 (2): 347–413.
  16. ↑ Zhang, Taisu (2014-01-01). "Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England" . The American Journal of Comparative Law. 62 (1): 171–220. doi:10.5131/AJCL.2013.0010. ISSN   0002-919X.
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