Prof.Wang Liming is a professor of Renmin University of China, where he also serves as an academic supervisor for LLD. Candidates. He received his LLB. from Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) and his LLM. and LLD. from Renmin University Law School.

He is currently recognized as the most distinguished scholar of civil law in China. His academic interests include theories of commercial law, property law, contract law and tort law. Prof. Wang has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Yale University, Harvard University, University of Paris II, and Waseda University in Tokyo. He is the chairman of the Civil Law Research Association of China Law Society. He serves as a deputy to the 9th,10th and11th National People's Congress, is a member of its Legal Affairs Committee and has participated in drafting some important laws such as Contract Law, Property Law and Tort Liability Law especially the Civil Code.

Prof.Wang serves for the Ministry of Education as a member of the Humanities and Social Science Committee and Vice Director of the Guidance Committee on Higher Legal Education. He also serves as Vice Chairman of China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and Senior Counselor of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of China. In 1995, he was selected as one of the country's Ten Outstanding Young Jurists by the China Law Society. He has published more than 30 books, and more than 250 theses.

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