Dr Sally Zhu
School of Law
Lecturer in Private Law
Full contact details
School of Law
AF05
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I joined Sheffield University as a Lecturer in 2021. Previously I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow based at Glasgow University where I taught modules in Land Law and Legal Theory.
My research is on property and private law aspects of platform and digital economies, including issues relating to regulation and consumer rights. Currently I am working on the topic of risk in property and sharing economies.
- Qualifications
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- PhD in Law, London School of Economics
- LLM, Cambridge University
- LLB, London School of Economics
- Research interests
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- Commercial Law
- Digital Economy
- Contract Law
- Property Law and Theory
- Law and Economics
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Property in the sharing economy: paradox, disruption, and institutional design. International Journal of Law in Context, 20(4), 429-435.
- Mutualism: a model for managing risk in P2P sharing. International Journal of Law in Context, 1-20.
- Bailment in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy. European Journal of Law and Technology, 14(2).
- Managing the risks of peer-to-peer goods-sharing. Law, Technology and Humans.
- Sharing property sharing labour: The co-production of value in platform economies. Laws, 9(4). View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Collaborative Property: P2P Sharing as Property System In Bettini F, Fishcer M, Mitchell C & Saprai P (Ed.), New Directions in Private Law Theory
Preprints
- Property in the sharing economy: paradox, disruption, and institutional design. International Journal of Law in Context, 20(4), 429-435.
- Research group
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Member of the Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law.
- Grants
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Title/description: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship entitled "Shifting paradigms of material property relations in cyber-sharing-economies"
- Awarding Body: Leverhulme Trust
- Dates: November 2018 - August 2021
- Amount (£): 322,000
- Teaching interests
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I teach across many areas of private law, predominantly focussing on digital and platform economies. I am especially keen to guide students in understanding the intersection between law and contemporary socio-economic issues, and to empower them with the knowledge to create social change. I encourage students to take eclectic and critical methodological approaches, combining insights from multiple disciplines and using theory to inform their doctrinal and practical reasoning.
- Teaching activities
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The UG modules I teach are:
- Property Law
- Advanced Contract
- Commercial Law
Postgraduate
- Commercial Law
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Guest Editor for Laws Special Issue
- Assistant Editor for Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Law