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Expertise Summary
Dr Sally Zhu is an Associate Professor in Law. She joined Nottingham University in 2026, and was Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Lecturer at University of Sheffield. Sally was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Glasgow University. She obtained her PhD in Law at LSE, LLM at Cambridge, and LLB at LSE.
Sally is currently researching the property and private law aspects of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. She is particularly interested in the law and economic perspective of these new technologies, how they can transform the legal infrastructure, and what legal regime is best suited to facilitating and regulating this emerging digital market.
Sally is an expert in the areas of Property, Private, and Commercial Law. Her previous funded research focussed on the private law aspects of the sharing economy and other digital and platform economies. Sally is also an expert in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory in general.
Teaching Summary
Dr Sally Zhu has interest in teaching across a wide range of private and commercial law subjects. She has experience of convening and teaching in Commercial Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and… read more
Research Summary
Dr Sally Zhu is preparing research into the future of economy and the possibilities offered by distributed ledger technology for our monetary systems. Her future research will explore the theoretical… read more
Selected Publications
ZHU, SALLY, 2024. International Journal of Law in Context. 20(4), 476-495,
ZHU, SALLY, Bailment in the Peer-to-Peer Sharing Economy European journal of law and technology. 14(2),
ZHU, SALLY, 2020. Laws. 9(4),
Dr Sally Zhu has interest in teaching across a wide range of private and commercial law subjects. She has experience of convening and teaching in Commercial Law, Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and Contracts.
Current Research
Dr Sally Zhu is preparing research into the future of economy and the possibilities offered by distributed ledger technology for our monetary systems. Her future research will explore the theoretical foundations of value and risk for a digitised economy, and the concept of normativity in an automated legal system.
Sally's past research was on property in the sharing economy and how sharing can destabilise our settled understandings of property categories. She focussed on the concept of risk which is thoroughly neglected in property theory, combining that with law and economics methodology to propose a new collaborative property paradigm. This research will be the subject of a forthcoming monograph with Hart Publishing titled 'Risk in the Sharing Economy'.