Jiayong Zhang , Ph.D. in  Law, Professor of Law School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law(ZUEL), doctoral supervisor, vice president of China Case Law Research Institute, executive director of China Civil Law Research Institute, director of Zhongnan Judicial Case Research Center, and arbitrator of Chengdu Arbitration Commission and Wuhan Arbitration Commission.

His research interests include general theory of civil law, property law, contract law, tort law, and comparative law.  He has published more than 40 academic papers in Social Science in China, Chinese Journal of Law, China Legal Science, Peking University Law Journal, The Jurist, and Law Science, etc. He has published nearly 10 books in Law Press and Peking University Press, including On Institutional Structure of Contract for the Benefit of Third Party (monograph), Research on Modes of Regulation in the Intermediate field Between Contract Law and Tort Law (monograph), Contract Law (co-author) and so on. 

He has translated from English to Chinese The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine, Foundations of Private Law: Property, Tort, Contracts, Unjust Enrichment, and Unification of European Tort Law: Wrongfulness. He has, among others, presided over a general project of the National Social Science Fund, a sub-project of the major project of the National Social Science Fund, a project of the Ministry of Education. In 2018, he was awarded the first prize of Hubei Social Sciences Excellent Achievement.