Dr. Zhong Ruihua is an assistant research fellow at the Department of International Human Rights Law, Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

She obtained her LL.B and LL.M from the China University of Political Science and Law in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2005. She started to work at the (then) Centre for International Law Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2005. She was a visiting scholar at Emory University School of Law and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her main research areas are the study of law and religion, and consumer law. She has published more than 10 articles in Chinese and several books as authors or translators.