Chongyao Wang

DPhil Law
Law Faculty

Other affiliations

Wolfson College Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group

Biography

Chongyao is a DPhil candidate in Law at Oxford, supervised by Prof Thomas Carter Adams. His academic interests include legal theory, moral philosophy, information technology law, and Chinese legal and political thought.

In the history of China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau), he is one of the first research students to study jurisprudence in the English-speaking world, and he is the first research student to research general jurisprudence (ie, the inquiry into the nature of law) at Oxford. He holds an LLM (Dist.) from UCL, an MA in Legal Philosophy (Dist.) from CUPL, and an LLB (Hons) from ZZU. He passed the National Legal Professional Qualification Examination of PRC in 2016.

He has published 10 articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Legal Philosophy, Legal Methodology, and Artificial Intelligence. At CUPL, he was a teaching assistant at the Law School and co-convenor of the Jimen Jurisprudence Workshop. Additionally, he was an editor for the Zhengzhou University Law Review.

Several scholarships and awards generously supported his studies and research, including the David and Jayne Paterson Scholarship, the National Scholarship awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Education (twice), the Excellent Paper Prize of the “Academic Newcomer” Competition of CUPL, the Jiang Zhen Scholarship (twice), the Top 0.08% Model Student Prize of ZZU, etc.

王重尧牛津大学法学博士(PhD)候选人。导师为托马斯·卡特·亚当斯教授。主要研究法学理论、数字法学、道德哲学、中国法理学史。

在中国(包括台港澳)历史上,他是第一批在英语世界学习法理学的博士生之一,也是第一名在牛津研究一般法理学(亦即探究法律的性质)的博士生。伦敦大学学院法学硕士(优异)、中国政法大学法学硕士(优秀硕论)、郑州大学法学学士(河南省优毕)。2016年通过国家司法考试。

在《法理——法哲学、法学方法论与人工智能》等学术刊物发表论文10篇。曾获帕特森奖学金、国家奖学金(本硕期间各1次)、中国政法大学“学术新人”大赛优秀论文奖、蒋震奖学金(2次)、郑州大学十佳大学生标兵等荣誉奖励。

Research Interests

  • Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Information Technology Law
  • Chinese Legal and Political Thought