Role: Associate Professor, Hunan Normal University
Hunan, China

  Contact: bwang40@emory.edu

  Research Interests:
Family Law | Succession Law | Conflict Law

Dr. Wang is an associate professor in Law at the Hunan Normal University (China) where he teaches civil law, conflict of laws, comparative law and international arbitration law. In the Law School he also serves as the director of the International Law Institute and the coach for moot competitions, such as Jessup Moot Court, Vis Moot and ADR Moot Competition (HongKong City University). He is member of Chinese Society of Private International Law and Chinese Association for Family Law and also partner of Hunan Furong Law Firm.

 He has published several monographs and more than 40 articles in academic journals in the field of civil law, private international law and comparative law, including several papers in German and English. His most recent publications are: German Succession Law (2014), Leading Cases of German Federal Courts in the Field of Private International Law (2014), German Family Law (2010), Incidental Question in Private International Law (2007). His recent research focuses on the relationship between the internality of family and the state intervention in the family, namely the party autonomy and mandatory regulation in family law.

 Dr. Wang was a visiting scholar at TU Dresden (supported by EU, 2010) and the University of Mainz (supported by DAAD, 2013) before coming to Emory University (supported by Chinese government, 2014-2015). While at Emory, worked with Professor Martha Albertson Fineman on US family law, especially the legal binding of the family agreement between spouses, which focuses on: (1) Party autonomy and its limitations in family law; (2) The application of the rules in contract law to the so called “family agreement”; (3) The relationship between the family agreement and public order, especially the basic rights of the constitution.