1988   - 1996

Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) / Faculty of   Law / The University of Toronto

1991   – 1993

Juris Doctor (JD) / Faculty of Law / The University of Toronto

1987   – 1988

Master of Laws (LLM) / Osgoode Hall Law School / York University

1981   - 1985 

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics / Shanghai Maritime University

Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, Law and Economics, Institutional approaches to Governance and Development

Constitutional Law, Commercial Law, Law and Economics, Institutional approaches to Governance and Development

2024 - 

Professor   / Faculty of Law / Macau University of Science and Technology

2011 – 2024

Professor   of Law / Faculty of Law / The University of Hong Kong

2000 - 2011    

Associate   Professor / Faculty of Law / The University of Hong Kong

1996 - 2000

Assistant   Professor / Faculty of Law / The University of Hong Kong

1993 – 1995           

University Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer / Faculty of Law / City University of Hong Kong

1. The Roles of Law and Politics in China’s Development (New York, Heidelberg and Singapore: Springer, 2014).

2. “The Rise of Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and Sustaining Democracy”, (2022) 15(1) Law and Development Review 63-103.

3. “Open Access in the Economic Sphere: A Framework Interpreting the Rise of the United Kingdom, the United States, and China at Different Historical Times”, (2020) 89(2) The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 415-440.

4. “The Theoretical Foundation of the English Doctrine of Frustration: Efficiency or Justice?”, (2019-2020) 7 City University of Hong Kong Law Review 47-60.

5. “Open Access in the Economic Sphere: Understanding China’s Development”, (2019) 17(2) Dartmouth Law Journal 78-107.

6. “Path Dependence and Interconnected Institutions: Implications for Legal Transplantation”, (2015) 30 Australian Journal of Corporate Law 177-203.

7. “The Other Roles of Law: Signalling, Self-commitment and Coordination” (2010) 12 Australian Journal of Asian Law 106-137; a revised and reduced version in Chinese appears at (2011) 1 Zhong Wai Fa Xue (The Comparative Law Journal of Beijing University School of Law) 176-192.

8. “The Role of Mortgages: A Case for Formal Law”, (2009) 26 Journal of Contract Law 45-67.

9.  “Adaptive Efficiency and Economic Development inChina: The Definition and Enforcement of Property Rights”, (2009) 11 Australian Journal of Asian Law 82-112.

10.   “Adaptive Efficiency and Financial Development inChina: The Role of Contracts and Contractual Enforcement” (2008) 11 (Oxford) Journal of International Economic Law 459 – 494 (with Zhang Hao); a revised and reduced version in Chinese appears at (2009) 24 Zhidu Jingji Xue Yanjiu (The Journal of Economics of the Economic Research Centre of Shandong University).

11. “Against Legal Origin: Of Ownership Concentration and Disclosure”, (2007) 7(2) The Journal of Corporate Law Studies 285-305 (with Shao Li). A revised and reduced version in Chinese appears at 4 Journal of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics 24-31 (2007).

12.  “Using Western Law to Improve China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Of Takeovers and Securities Fraud”, (2004) 39(2) Valparaiso University Law Review 339-376.

13.  “Takeovers in China: The Case against Uniformity in Corporate Governance”, 34(2) Common Law World Review 169-198 (2005).

Research Projects

1. “The Corrective Justice-based Theory of Private Law: Its Alternatives and Deviations” (work in progress).

2. “The Idea of Private Law: A Communitarian Version of Kantian Rights”, (forthcoming) 46 Western New England Law Review.

3. “Law and Economics”, a book essay in Research Handbook on Chinese Legal Thought, to be published at Edward Elgar in 2025.

1. Visiting Professor, School of Transnational Law, Beijing University (May 2022-present).

2. Li Ka Shing Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University (August to December, 2015).

3. Visiting Scholar, Cornell University School of Law, focusing on comparative constitutional law (January to April, 2012).

4. Visiting Chair Professor, Faculty of Law, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu,China(2006 - 2007).

5. Guest Professor, Shanghai Maritime University (2002 - 2006).   

6. Guest Professor, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics (March 2003 -March 2006).

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