Xiaoou Zheng is an assistant professor in Public International Law at the School of Law, Xiamen University (China). She obtained her Ph.D at the School of Law in the University of Edinburgh in February 2020. Her doctoral research focuses on the interaction between international biodiversity law and human rights law. She is generally interested in the international environmental law and its increasing interaction with other branches of international law. Previously, she worked part‐time on access and benefit‐sharing‐related issues for the Union for Ethical BioTrade, an international organization based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.