Sharon Xiaohan Zhang

Xiaohan (Sharon) Zhang is a DPhil in Law candidate at Balliol College, under the supervision of Professor Liz Fisher. Her research interests mainly include constitutional and administrative law, environmental law, with a particular focus on how different forms of knowledge intersect and shape modern public law. In her DPhil project, she explores different understandings of regulatory objectivity and how they are related to the Rule of Law. Her research is generously sponsored by the Rhodes Scholarship.

At Oxford, Sharon co-convenes the Oxford Chinese Law Discussion Group, having organised two annual conferences for junior researchers in Chinese Law. She serves as an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (published by Taylor & Francis) and holds student memberships at the Oxford China Centre and the Rothermere American Institute. Beyond academia, she serves on the Oxford Committee of Sing Inside, a music charity delivering workshops in prisons.

Before commencing her DPhil, she completed her LLB at Zhejiang University as a recipient of Chu Kochen Award. She then obtained an LLM from Peking University Law School, and an MPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. Sharon has interned with the Supreme People’s Court of China, China Academy of Information and Communications Technologies and other research institutions, with experiences in promoting judicial reforms and legislative processes in China.