Faculty Profile

• Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley, 2012
• LL.M., Harvard Law School, 2005
• M.A. in Civil Law, Waseda University, 2004
• LL.B., Fudan University, 2000
• Attorney-at-Law (New York)

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, since Jan 2021
• Associate Dean (Postgraduate Curriculum, Teaching & International Relations) , School of Law, Singapore Management University, since Jan 2021

Previous Appointments:

• Associate Dean (Postgraduate Curriculum & Teaching) , School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
• Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2013 - Dec 2020
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Aug. – Dec. 2011
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Aug. – Dec. 2010
• Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 – 2010

Honors & Awards

• Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2010 – 2011
• Law and Economics Fellowship, 2009
• Selznick Fellow, 2007 – 2008
• Law and Economics Grantee Award, 2007
• East Asia Legal Studies Award, 2004
• Japanese Government Scholarship, 2002 – 2004

Courses Taught in SMU

• Economic Analysis of Law
• Chinese Contract and Business Law
• Law Study Mission to Asia
• Comparative Legal System

Research Area / Areas of Specialisation

• Empirical Legal Studies
• Corporate and Securities Law
• Law and Economics
• Chinese Law
• Property Law

Current Project

• Dual-class Share Structure in US and Asia
• Fiduciary Duties in Corporate Governance
• Securities Regulation and Chinese Capital Market
• Property Rights and Chinese Economic Development

Selected Publications

Published in English

1. The Value of Fiduciary Duties: Evidence of En Bloc Sales in Singapore (with Jianfeng Hu and Kelvin Low)
   72 International Review of Law and Economics (forthcoming)
2. Mandatory Bids in China: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink (with Weiran Lin, Bin Zeng and Wenxiu Zhang)
   22 European Business Organization Law Review 351-394 (2021)
3. Board Independence as Panacea to Tunneling? An Empirical Study of Related Party Transactions in Hong Kong and Singapore (with Christopher Chen and Wai Yee Wan)
   15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 987-1020 (2018)
4. Managing Judges Mathematically: An Empirical Study of Medical Malpractice Litigations in Shanghai
   28 Constitutional Political Economy 373-406 (2017)
5. Weak Law v. Strong Ties: An Empirical Study of Business Investment, Law and Political Connections in China (with Ji Li)
   13 Review of Law & Economics 1-44 (2017)
6. Understanding the Law of Torts in China: A Political Economy Perspective
   11 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review 171-241 (2016)

Published in Chinese (中文作品)

1. 双重股权架构的域外经验与中国应对 
   《财经法学》2020年第1期，第64-84页（2020年）
2. 上市公司股票回购的功能考察与制度反思——以美国经验为核心的研究
   《证券法苑》第22卷，第87-110页（2017年）
3. 物权法定的效率问题再思考——文献回顾与视角转换
   《中研院法学期刊》第13期，第235-278页（2013年）
4. 《资本的规则》
   中国法制出版社（2017年）
5. 《资本的规则 II》
   中国法制出版社（2019年）