Renshan Zhang is a professor of Law School at Nanjing University, executive chairman of China Institute of Legal History (CILA), chairman of Institute of Legal History of Jiangsu Province Law Society, adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, member of the Sino-American Joint Academic Committee (JAC), director of the Research Center for Judicial Culture, Law School at Nanjing University, editor-in-chief of the Nanjing University Law Review (2008–2017). His main works include Law School History of Nanjing University: 1927–2021, Modern Chinese Law Through a Multidimensional Perspective, Traditional Legal Culture in China, Sovereignty, Legal Rights and Society in Modern China, Rites, Law and Society: Legal Transition and Social Change in Qing Dynasty, Perspectives in Legal and Social History, Chinese Society in 1949, and Judicial Corruption and Social Breakdown: 1928–1949.