2008
Jingjing Zhang
Director
Transnational Environmental Accountability Project
Jingjing Zhang is a prominent Chinese environmental lawyer and a lecturer in law at the University of Maryland School of Law. She is the director of the Transnational Environmental Accountability Project and the founder of the China Accountability Project. She works on cutting-edge transnational environmental and climate lawsuits in the international development arena. Her team tests various legal avenues to ensure Chinese companies under China’s Belt and Road Initiative comply with environmental laws and international human rights norms in Africa and Latin America.
Through her work as the inaugural litigation director of the Beijing-based Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims between 1999 and 2008, Jingjing won several milestone environmental litigation cases in the Chinese courts. She also worked for Natural Resource Defenses Council China Project and PILnet, the Global Network for Public Interest Law, Beijing office.
The 2008 World Fellows
The 2008 Yale World Fellows include a Pakistani journalist reporting from the frontline of the war on terror, a groundbreaking Chinese public interest lawyer, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist working to develop methods for prevention of HIV infection in women and the founding Secretary General of Nicaragua’s Ministry of Defense. “I am delighted to welcome this extraordinary group of men and women to the Yale community,” said Yale President Richard Levin. “Yale will benefit greatly from their presence on campus, and we anticipate that the World Fellows will gain new perspectives on their own roles as future leaders.” “The 2008 Yale World Fellows, while diverse in background, share both an outstanding record...Read More
MORE ABOUT JINGJING
Jingjing Zhang: The “Erin Brockovich of China”
‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang
Mongabay - 05/05/2021Jingjing Zhang has been dubbed the “Erin Brockovich of China” for her work litigating against polluting companies on behalf of affected communities within the country.
Jingjing Zhang: Greening China's Globalization
Carnegie Council - 02/20/2019In 2017, Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang (张兢兢) visited a village in Sierra Leone, near a Chinese-owned iron-ore mine.