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Professor

Doctorate Supervisor
Deputy Director of RIEL
Post-doctor of Queen's University Belfast in Britain(1999-2000)
J.S.D of Peking University(1999)
LLM of Wuhan University(1994)
Email: duqun@yahoo.com

Areas of Interest

• Chinese Environmental Law
• Comparative Environmental Law
• Internatioanal Environmental Law
• Soil Pollution Prevention Law
• Water Law and River Basin Management Law
• Environmental Service and Compensation

Brief Biographical Detail

Ms. Du is a professor and doctoral supervisor, and Deputy Director of RIEL. Prof. Du was born in Yongkang in Zhejiang Province in 1968. She was awarded a bachelors degree of law by the Law School of Wuhan University in 1991, an LL,M. at the RIEL in 1994, and a J.S.D degree at the Law School of Peking University. She was a faculty member at the Resources School of Beijing Normal University from 1994~2004. She finished her post-doctoral study at Queen's University Belfast in Britain from 1999~2000. Thereafter she held the post of senior consultant for environmental law projects in the China Office of ADB from 2002~2004. She has worked at RIEL since 2005. Prof. Du is a standing member of the Chinese Association of Environment and Resources Law, co-chairman of the Specialist Working Group for Sustainable Soil of the Commission of Environmental Law of IUCN. She has participated in many national key research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of PRC, the China Natural Sciences Foundation, the China Social Sciences Foundation, the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). Du has participated in legislation, revision and expert counseling on laws and rules on the environment and resources initiated by the Environment and Resources Committee of the National People’s Congress, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the State Environmental Protection Administration. She has participated in the design and implementation of many international projects. She has been invited to many foreign countries for academic exchanges, including Kenya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Ecuador. Furthermore, she has published more than 30 major academic articles in journals at home and abroad, including her representative work of The Theory of Combined Environmental Law---Integration of Legal Protection of Environment, Resources and Ecology (Science Press, 2003).

Publications
Books

• DU QUN, The Theory of Combined Environmental Law---Integration of Legal Protection of Environment, Resources and Ecology,Science Press, 2003
• DU QUN ed., Environmental Law, Beijing Normal University Press

Articles

• The Review on New Zealand s Resource Management Act, 1991, World Environment, 1999(1)
• Fundamental Nonsense in Concept of “ecological Law”-Discussion With Liu Wenyan and Liu Bin, Modern Law Science, 1999(4)
• On Merge of Environmental Law and Law of Natural Resources, Cass Journal of Law, 2000(6)
• On the Category of Environmental Law, Law Review, 2001(2)
• Sustainable Development and Chinese Environmental Law Reform: Theory on the Integrated Environmental Law in China, Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Science Edition), 2001 (3)
• Sustainable Development and Chinese Environmental Law Reform: Renovation of the Chinese Environmental Law System, Journal of Beijing Normal University (Social Science Edition), 2001 (5)
• Local Enactment of Urban Environmental Management Law: The Case of Shenzhen City, China （with John Davis） Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law，2001；
• On the Environment Right and Interest, Environmental Protection, 2002 (5)
• The Impact of International Law of Preventing Climate Change on National Energy Policy: Energy Efficiency Strategy Based on the Market Mechanism and the Implementation Policy (and Du Zhihua, STP), Environmental Protection, 2002(7)
• The Evolution of Basic Environmental Laws in Japan and its Reference to China, Journal of Comparative Law, 2002(4)
• International Laws Response to Climate Change: the Review of Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Environmental and Resources Law Review, Law Press ,2003
• International Laws Response to Climate Change: From the Greenhouse Theory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Modern Law Science, 2002(5)
• Legal Issues and Countermeasures of the Prevention and Control of Desertification: Take Shiyang River Basin, Gansu Province, For Example, Law Review, 2004(1)
• Legal System of Wetland Protection in American Farmland (and Li Meng), Environmental Protection, 2004(2)
• The Regional Policy of the Sustainable Management of the Water Resources in the Northwest Region and the Land Degradation Control: Take Shiyang River For Example, Resources Science, 2004(6)