Civil Judgments at First Instance: Comparative Experience and Chinese Solution

Zhixun CAO (Hector) is a professor (Research) in Peking University (China). He holds his LL.B., LL.M., and LL.D. in Peking University and is pursuing his second doctoral title in University of Regensburg (Germany). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University (China). His research interests cover civil procedure, evidence law, dispute resolution, civil and commercial law, comparative law, and judicial system. He is the author of more than 90 scientific publications in books and journals and was invited as a speaker or a national reporter in conferences in over ten jurisdictions. Dr. Cao was the chief researcher of a project granted by the National Social Science Foundation in China between 2018 and 2024. In 2020, the Department of Education in China awarded him the Higher School Science Research Excellent Achievement Prize (humanities and social science). He is a director of the China Civil Procedural Law Society and the deputy secretary general of the Center for International Arbitration Research of Peking University. He is an active editor of the Peking University Law Journal in Chinese.