1. Research area
International Law, Human Rights Law, Energy and Climate Change Law.
2. Introduction
Tang Yingxia is the Associate Professor of International Law Department at Nankai University School of Law, Master Supervisor, Deputy Director of Human Rights Research Center of Nankai University (the first batch of national human rights education and training bases). Professor Tang held a concurrent post as the Director of China Society for Human Rights Research, China Society of Private International Law, and the Executive Director of Natural Resources Law Society of China Pacific Society. She is also an expert of the Tianjin Government Rule of Law Think Tank and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights Studies, and an anonymous reviewer of the Journal of Wuhan University (Social Science Edition), Frontiers of Law in China, Journal of Public Security Studies, Journal of Tianjin University (Social Science Edition), etc.
From September 2013 to September 2014, Tang was a member of the “Double Thousand Program” at the Tianjin Second Intermediate People’s Court. From September 2013 to September 2014, she served as the Deputy Director of the Research Office of the Tianjin Second Intermediate People’s Court. She has visited the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, the Law School of Seoul University in Korea, the Center for Human Rights Studies of the University of Oslo in Norway, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the Law School of Lund University in Sweden, the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Geneva, the Law School of the University of Salzburg in Austria, the Center for Human Rights of American University in the United States, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Council of Europe. Professor Tang has conducted visits and exchanges with the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament, and the National Human Rights Center of Uzbekistan.
Her main research interests are International Law, Human Rights Law, Energy and Climate Change Law, and she has been working on the issues of environmental rights, children's rights, climate change and human rights for many years. She is the chair of the National Social Science Foundation of China's Research on the Governance Strategy of National Adaptation to Climate Change from the Perspective of Human Rights Law and Research on the Fundamentals of International Law on Climate Change, which is the subject of the Tianjin Philosophy and Social Science Planning. She has published two monographs, International Climate Change Governance: Institutions and Pathways and Research on Compliance Mechanisms of International Climate Change Treaties, and co-edited Research on Human Rights Development Roads with Chinese Characteristics, Human Rights Protection in Contemporary China (Chinese and English) (associate editor), and The Drafting Process of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Its Influence on Future Generations (associate editor), and published in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Nankai. She has also published many papers in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Nankai Journal, Social Science Front, Human Rights and other journals. She has participated in the preparation of the first National Human Rights Action Plan (2009-2010) issued by the Chinese government, the Citizen's Book on Human Rights and the Report on the Development of Human Rights in China (Blue Book on Human Rights), and has continuously participated in the preparation of the series of books commissioned by the Information Office of the State Council, Human Rights in Action in China.
Professor Tang studied at the Zhou Enlai School of Government of Nankai University from 2004 to 2008, where she received her J.D. She studied at the Law School of Jilin University from 1999 to 2002, where she received her LL.M. She studied at Northeastern University from 1995 to 1999, where she received her LL.B. in International Economic Law.
3. Contact
E-mail: 762095934@qq.com; tangyingxia@nankai.edu.cn