She received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Henan Institute of Finance and Economics in 1996, an LLM degree from Zhengzhou University in 2001, and a JD degree from Wuhan University in 2004. Her interests include environmental law, energy law, Chinese judicial systems and reform, and natural resource law. Zhao Huiyu has published numerous articles, including Ecological Risk and Countermeasure Strategies of Forest Rights Reform, Eco-environmental Protect Law and Mechanism System in the Diversion Project from South to North, and The Functions of Environmental Law in China’s new type of industrialization. Between February 2012 and February 2013, she was also a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland School of Law.