Chang Wang

Chang Wang is an associate professor of law at the College of Comparative Law, China University of Political Science and Law; he is also Chief Research and Academic Officer at Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Chang is the second Chinese national ever elected to the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI); Vice Chair of Legal Education and Specialist Certification Committee at the American Bar Association (ABA); and a member of the ABA Human Rights Council. He also serves on the ABA Steering Groups for Chinese Law and Immigration and Naturalization Law. He is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), the leading research institute for the empirical study of law in the United States. He is adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School and William Mitchell College of Law in the United States; visiting professor of law at the University of Bern Faculty of Law and University of Lucerne Faculty of Law in Switzerland; visiting professor at the University of Milan in Italy; and a guest professor of law at Beijing Foreign Studies University in China. Since 2007, he has been a member of Central Civil and Judiciary Committee of China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), the fourth largest political party in China. He is also a Guest Lecturer in American Law and Culture at Beijing Royal School, an elite private high school in China. He is a board member of Journal of Transnational Legal Issues, a law review journal based in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2013, he was awarded Erasmus Mundus Scholarship by the European Commission.