Wang Yi

Doctor of Laws, PhD Supervisor. He currently serves as a member of the Standing Committee of the University Council and Vice President of Renmin University of China. Prof. Wang has won the following honors and awards: Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program (2013 and 2014), Young and Middle-aged Expert with Remarkable Contribution as part of the National Key Talents Program, the State Council Special Allowance of 2018.He also is the member of the Steering Committee for Jurisprudential Teaching in Universities and Colleges of the Ministry of Education, Executive Member of China Law Society, Vice Chairperson and Secretary-general of Civil Law Research Association in China Law Society, member and Secretary-general of the Leading Group of Civil Code Drafting, China Law Society.

His main research areas are Principles of Civil Law and Methods of Civil Law Science, General Provisions of the Civil Law, Property Law, Contract Law, Personal Rights Law and Tort law. In addition, Prof. Wang has participated in the drafting of the Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China, Property Law of the People’s Republic of China, Tort Law of the People’s Republic of China and Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China.

Other posts he holds include: the Sixth National Ten Outstanding Young Jurists, the First Beijing Ten Outstanding Young Jurists, Member of the Talents Support Program in the New Century of the Ministry of Education, First Prize of National Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, the Sixth Wu Yuzhang Outstanding Teaching Award and the 25th Beijing May 4 Medal.