AIIFL Fellow
Professor James Zeng
- Judicial Incentives and the Settlement–Litigation Choice in a Hierarchical Legal System: Evidence from China, Journal of Law and Economics (2026 forthcoming).
- Law and Algorithm-Dominated Firms, European Business Organizational Law Review (2026 forthcoming).
- A Legal Theory of State-Owned Enterprises, Cambridge University Press (2026).
- Judicial Reform and Privatization of State-owned Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from China’s Public-Private Partnership Market, 26 European Business Organization Law Review 623 (2025).
- Rules Versus Standards in Shareholder Protection Under Chinese Law: A New Taxonomy And Empirical Analysis, 73 American Journal of Comparative Law 536 (2025).
- Law and Industrial Policy: The East Asian Experience, 58 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 197 (2025).
- Contracting Institutions, Credible Commitment, and Firm Value, 2025 Annual Conference of American Law and Economics Association (ALEA), New York University Law School, 2025 Conference on Empirical Leg
- Regulating Conflict-of-Interest Transactions through Share Buyback Rights(論股東回購請求權對利益衝突交易之規制功能), 4 環球法律評論[Global Law Review] 90 (2024).
- Do State-Owned Institutional Investors Care more about ESG? Evidence from China,
- Can Chinese Corporate Law Introduce Injunctive Reliefs(我國公司法能否構建禁制令制度), 中國社會科學報[Chinese Social Sciences Today ], Jan. 24, 2024. (reprinted by China Social Science Excellence(人大複印報刊資料)).
- Structured Judicial Decision-Making and Minority Protection, N.Y.U. Journal of Law and Business (2024 forthcoming)
- Algorithm-Owned Firms
- Competing with Leviathan: Law and government ownership in China’s public-private partnership market, 76 International Review of Law and Economics 106166 (2023).
- Competing with Leviathan: Law and Government Ownership in China’s Public–Private Partnership Market
- Environmental Policy and Compensation in China: An Empirical Analysis of Article Eight of the Chinese Administrative License Law, 34 Journal of Environmental Law 287 (2022).
- The Faces of Securities Regulation and State Authority: A Comparison between the United States and China, 59 American Business Law Journal 559 (2022).
- The Case for Disregarding Entity Shielding, 19 Berkeley Business Law Journal 221 (2022).
- Protection of Private Enterprises under a Developmental Non-Liberal State: The Case Of China
- Theoretical Foundation and Legal Design of Enhanced Obligation of Financial Holding Companies(金融控股公司加重責任的理論基礎與制度完善), 319 政治與法律[Political Science and Law] 92 (2021).(reprinted by China Social Science E
- Responsive Regulation of Related-Party Transactions of Listed Corporations(上市公司關聯交易的回應型規制), 33 中外法學[Peking University Law Journal] 1599 (2021). (reprinted by China Social Science Excellence(人大複印報刊資料))
- Does Regulation of Defensive Tactics with Mandatory Rules Benefit Shareholders? Evidence from Event Studies in China, 66 International Review of Law and Economics 105988 (2021).
- Debts-Follow-Assets
- The Calculus of Shareholders’ Consent: A Constitutional Economics Theory of Corporate Charter Amendment Rules, 41 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 429 (2019). Available at: htt
- The Economic Functions and Legal Restrictions on Partitioning Enterprise Assets (資產分割理論下的企業財產獨立性：經濟功能與法律限制), 31 中外法學[Peking University Law Journal]1357 (2019)(China). (reprinted by China Social Scienc
- Regulating Draconian Takeover Defenses with Soft Law: Empirical Evidence from Event Studies in China, 20 European Business Organization Law Review 823 (2019).
- State Ownership and Regulatory Costs: A Law and Economic Analysis of State-Owned Enterprise in China, 31 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 1 (2017).
- Internal and External Shareholder Liability in the Financial Industry: A Comparative Approach, 37 Review of Banking and Financial Law 285 (2017).
- Establishing Land Assembly Districts: A Proposal to Chinese Law on Rural Land Takings, 10 Frontier of Law in China 690 (2015).
- The Role of Debts Covenants in Creditor Protection under the Law of the United States(美國法上的限制性債務契約制度評析), in 24 公司法評論[Review on Corporate Law] 152, (2014)(China).
- Defining Equity and Debt Investments Made by Related Parties under Chinese Tax Law(關聯方股權性投資與債權性投資的稅法認定), 4 稅法解釋與判例評註[Tax Law and Case Review] 381 (2013) (China).
- Comments on EU’s ban on Naked Short CDS(歐盟無實體CDS禁令的法理評析), 85 金融法苑[Financial Law Forum] 233 (2012)(China).
