2014 - 2019 JSD / Law / City University of Hong Kong 

2013 - 2014 LLM / Law / Northwestern University (USA) 

2010 - 2012 Master / Law / Beijing Technology and Business University 

2006 - 2010 Bachelor / Law / Beijing Technology and Business University

Civil and Commercial Law, Financial Law, Law and Society, Comparative Law

Civil and Commercial Law, Financial Law, Law and Society, Comparative Law

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

Journal Article

1. Fen Lin, Qin Zhou and Jianing Wang, “Can Information Transparency Strengthen Authoritarian Accountability? An Empirical Study of Open-Government-Information Litigation in China (2008-2018)” (2024) Chinese Sociological Review, forthcoming (SSCI).

2. Qin Zhou, “Whose Data Is It Anyway? An Empirical Analysis of Online Contracting For Personal Information in China” (2023) 31(1) Asia Pacific Law Review, 73-99 (SSCI).

3. Qin Zhou and Shanyun Xiao, “Experimentation in Peer-to-Peer Lending and Regulation in China” (2022) 15 Tsinghua China Law Review, 58-92 (ESCI).

4. Qin Zhou, “Crisis-driven Regulation: Evidence from Engineering China’s Banking Wealth Management Market” (2022) 22(1) Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 535-569 (SSCI).

5. Qin Zhou, “Re-evaluating the Information Disclosure Mechanism in the Sale of Bank-issued Wealth Management Products in China” (2021) 51(2) Hong Kong Law Journal, 691-736 (SSCI).

6. Qin Zhou and Jing Feng, “What We Do and Do Not Know About Standard Form Contracts? An Empirical Study of Wealth Management Product Contracts in China,” (2021) 16 Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 124-154.

Conference Paper

1. “Does Political Consciousness Reward? — An Empirical Legal Study of Corporate Governance Practices in Mainland China and Hong Kong” 20th Annual Conference of Asian Law and Economics Association, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, July 2024.

2. “Financial Regulation in the Context of Financial Inclusion: Understanding the Logic of China’s Banking Wealth Management Regulation” 21th Asian Law Institute Conference, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, May 2024.

3. “Match Risk or Avoid Risk: How Do Chinese Courts Apply the Suitability Rule?” 20th Asian Law Institute Conference, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, June 2023.

4. “The Transformation of Chinese Regulations on Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Market: Silencing, Hesitating and Championing,” EAI Seminar, East Asian Institute, Singapore, April 30, 2020.

5. “Suing the Leviathan – An Empirical Analysis of the Litigation Involving Bank-Issued Wealth Management Product in China,” 16th Asian Law Institute Conference, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, June 2019.

Book Chapter 

1. Qin Zhou, “Banking and Finance & Bank Regulation in Macau” in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Asian Law, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).

2. Qin Zhou, “China: Confronting a Growing Wealth Management Sector,” in Sandra Annette Booysen ed., Financial Advice and Investor Protection: Comparative Law and Practice, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2021, 190-213.

3. Qin Zhou, “An Empirical Study on the Wealth Management Product Contracts issued from Major Chinese Commercial Banks,” in Laiming Lu ed., Studies on Commercial Law. Beijing China: China University of Political Science and Law Press, 2018 (in Chinese).