He is the law professor of the Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University（SJTU）. He is the first chairman of Shanghai Big Data Social Application Association, the director of Corporate Legal Affairs Research Center, the director of Legal Bid Data Institute and the chief editor of International Business Law Review of SJTU, the director of Jiahua Bid Data Centre of China Institute of Urban Governance.

In addition, he is also the General Counsel or Senior expert as follow:

China Corporate Social Responsibility Think Tank

China Regional Rule of Law Think Tank

China Legal Affairs Institute

China Supreme Court Justice Studies Group

Shanghai Government

Shanghai High Court Think Tank

Shanghai Association of Corporate Counsel Association

Shanghai Association of Non-state Corporate Counsel

He was invited to speak at international conferences by the institutes of America, Singapore, Russia, Japan, Britain, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and also invited to speak at Summits by the Supreme Court, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Shanghai Government and several famous university.

Especially, he initiated several influential legal summits or international conferences cooperated with American Bar Association, Duke Law School, MIT Computer Science and AI Experiment, George Town Law School, Emory Law School, Legal Daily, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, Hong Kong Bar Association, Asian Legal Business and Taiwan University.

Li YANG, Assessment of Judicial Reform in China: Shanghai as Research Target, Social Sciences in China Review, 2016(1). CSSCI / being highly praised by State Leader and Chief Grand Justice in Shanghai.

Li YANG, Practice and Theory of the Guiding Case System in China, Vol.46, Hong Kong Law Journal, 2016. SSCI

Li YANG, Chinese Discourse System：Assessment Report of Foreign Investment Law System Reform in China’s Free Trade Zone between China and America, Studies in Law and Business, 2016(4). CSSCI

Li YANG, Why Thorough Reform of Law School in China is Necessary, Law Science, 2016(4). CSSCI

Li YANG, Internationalization of China Legal Education, SJTU Law Review, 2016(2).

Li YANG, Legislative Structure of CSR, Vol.1, International Business Law Review, 2015. / Being highly praised by State Leader

Li YANG, Taking Legal Thinking Seriously, Journal of Political Science and Law, 2015(2). CSSCI / being republished by Judicial Administration Review, 2015(2)

Li YANG, International Cultivation of Law Talent Model, Law Science, 2015(3). CSSCI

Li YANG, Legalization of CSR, Chinese Journal of Law, 2015(5). CSSCI

Li YANG, Legal Profession and Legal Education, Vol.13, Law and Social Science, 2014. CSSCI / being republished by China Legal Association Law Review, 2013.

Li YANG, New Challenges and Basic Ideas of the Legal Test of China’s Reform in the Deepwater Area: Take the System Construction of the Free-trade Zone of China (Shanghai) as the Main Line, Journal of Political Science and Law, 2014. CSSCI / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2014(6).

Li YANG, How to Eliminate the Legal Privilege, Law Science, 2014(7). CSSCI

Li YANG, Legal Education and General Education, Study and Exploration, 2014(9). CSSCI / being republished by Educational Science Digest, 2014(6)

Li YANG, Competence Structure of Distinguished Legal Talents, SJTU Journal, 2013(2). CSSCI / being republished by China University Academic Abstracts, 2013(3).

Li YANG, Report of SME Law Rules for the Implementation, being highly praised by Parliament

Li YANG, How to Produce the Judicial Rules by the Method of Interest Balancing, Studies in Law and Business, 2012(1). CSSCI

Li YANG, What is the Main Direction：China Judicial Reform, Fortune Magazine, 2012(9).

Li YANG, Legal Profession Threshold between China and America, Study and Exploration, 2012(7). CSSCI

Li YANG, Principle of Benefit Measurement Application in Civil Law Cases, Law Science, 2011(1). CSSCI / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2011(7).

Li YANG, Judicial Multilateralism in Risk Society, Shandong Social Science, 2011(1). CSSCI

Li YANG, How to Realize Judicial Multilateralism, SJTU Journal, 2011(2). CSSCI / being republished by China University Academic Abstracts, 2011(3).

Li YANG, Procedure of Political Decision in Supreme Court, Tribune of Political Science and Law, 2010(1). CSSCI

Li YANG, Judicial Activism, Journal of East China University of Political Science and Law, 2010(2). CSSCI / being republished by China University Academic Abstracts, 2010(3). / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2010(9).

Li YANG, Solution of Dispute, Multilateral Approbation, Judicial Activism, Legal Forum, 2009(4). CSSCI

Li YANG, Special Justice in During the Course of the Trial, Jurist, 2008(4). CSSCI / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2009(1). / being republished by Xinhua Digest, 2010(9).

Li YANG, New Judicial Thinking and Attention, Nanjing Social Science, 2008(9). CSSCI

Li YANG, How to Revised the Law on Protecting Against and Mitigating Earthquake Disasters, Study and Exploration, 2008(4). CSSCI

Li YANG, Guiding Case in China, Legal Science, 2008(6). CSSCI / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2009(2). / being republished by China Social Science Digest, 2009(4).

Li YANG, Multilateralism in Judicial System based on Social Structure, SJTU Journal, 2008(1). CSSCI

Li YANG, Research of Direction Case and Benign Mechanism in China, China Legal Science, 2008(1). CSSCI

Li YANG, Local Rules and Justice: How to Deal with the Balance, China Legal Science, 2007(6). CSSCI / being republished by Information Center for Social Science, 2009(2). / being republished by China Social Science Digest, 2008(2).

Li YANG, Taxpayers' Consciousness：From a Legal Point of View, 2007(2). CSSCI

Li YANG, Zegang Jing, Position and Deadline for Taxing Power of Government, Politic and Law, 2007(3). CSSCI

Li YANG, Ten Questions on Preemptive Right of Estate, Cases Study, 2007(5). CSSCI

Books:

Li YANG, China Legal Education Reform, Shanghai People Press, 2016.

Li YANG Legal Thinking and Legal Classics, Beijing University Press and SJTU Press, 2012.

Li YANG, Dong DING, Local Judicial Regulation in China, China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2011.

Li YANG Multilateralism in Judicial System, Law Press, 2010.