Dr Sally Zhu

School of Law

Lecturer in Private Law

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s.s.zhu@sheffield.ac.uk
AF05, Bartolome虂 House

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Dr Sally Zhu
School of Law
AF05
Bartolome虂 House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

I joined Sheffield 海角社区 as a Lecturer in 2021. Previously I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based at Glasgow 海角社区 where I taught modules in Land Law and Legal Theory.

My research is on property and private law aspects of platform and digital economies, including issues relating to regulation and consumer rights. Currently I am working on the topic of risk in property and sharing economies.

Qualifications
  • PhD in Law, London School of Economics
  • LLM, Cambridge 海角社区
  • LLB, London School of Economics
Research interests
  • Commercial Law
  • Digital Economy
  • Contract Law
  • Property Law and Theory
  • Law and Economics
Publications

Journal articles

  • Zhu S (2024) . International Journal of Law in Context, 20(4), 429-435. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu S (2024) . International Journal of Law in Context, 1-20. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu S (2023) Bailment in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy. European Journal of Law and Technology, 14(2). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu S (2022) . Law, Technology and Humans. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu S (2020) . Laws, 9(4). RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Zhu S () Collaborative Property: P2P Sharing as Property System In Bettini F, Fishcer M, Mitchell C & Saprai P (Ed.), New Directions in Private Law Theory RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

  • Zhu S () . RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhu S () . RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law.

Grants

Title/description: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship entitled "Shifting paradigms of material property relations in cyber-sharing-economies"

  • Awarding Body: Leverhulme Trust
  • Dates: November 2018 - August 2021
  • Amount (拢): 322,000
Teaching interests

I teach across many areas of private law, predominantly focussing on digital and platform economies. I am especially keen to guide students in understanding the intersection between law and contemporary socio-economic issues, and to empower them with the knowledge to create social change. I encourage students to take eclectic and critical methodological approaches, combining insights from multiple disciplines and using theory to inform their doctrinal and practical reasoning.

Teaching activities

The UG modules I teach are:

  • Property Law
  • Advanced Contract
  • Commercial Law

Postgraduate

  • Commercial Law
Professional activities and memberships
  • Guest Editor for Laws Special Issue
  • Assistant Editor for Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Law