Prof. Dr. ZHAO Jing graduated from China University of Political Science and Law, and earned the degrees of Bachelor of Law, Master of Law and PhD in Law. He studied as a joint PhD student in Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, and successively visited Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica as the guest associate professor and Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies, University of Münster as the Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.

Prof. Dr. ZHAO specializes in Chinese legal history, and his research interests recently focus on the compilation of codes during Tang and Song dynasties, judicial officers in Song dynasty, Dunhuang & Turpan legal documents and the history of oriental legal history studies in Japan. He is the author of two books, Tiansheng Statutes and Legal Systems in the Tang-Song Period and Sanchi Chunqiu: A Collection of Reviews on Legal History. He has also published more than 30 papers on Chinese and overseas journals such as Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica, Literature and History and Eastern Studies (Japan).