Speakers

Chen Jie, PHD (Peking University), is a professor in the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Prof. Chen’s major research area is Company law and Securities law. She is the Vice President of China Business Law Association.

陳力，復旦大學國際法學教授 博士生導師。從事國際私法、國際經濟法、南極國際治理等教學與科研工作。主持國家與省部級項目多項，在上述領域發表專著三部、國內外核心期刊發表論文五十篇。兼任中國國際私法學會常務理事、上海市法學會國際法研究會副會長、中國法學會審判理論研究會海峽兩岸審判理論專業委員會委員、上海國際經濟貿易仲裁委員會、上海仲裁委員會仲裁員等職。
在教學與科研領域獲得多項獎勵與榮譽稱號：《國際經濟法導論》獲得上海市優秀教學成果二等獎，上海市精品課程；專著及論文先後獲上海市哲學社會科學優秀成果三等獎與二等獎；獲得第四屆上海市優秀中青年法學家榮譽稱號。曾在德國馬克斯普朗克國際公法與比較法研究所、美國耶魯大學（Fox International Fellowship）、美國弗吉尼亞大學（富布萊特訪問學者US-China Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar）做訪問研究，在美國華盛頓（聖路易斯）大學、新加坡管理大學講學並赴香港、澳門、台灣地區、韓國、德國、英國、丹麥等國家或地區參加國際學術會議。

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Donald C. Clarke, a specialist in Chinese law, joined the law school faculty in spring 2005 after teaching at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, as well as practicing for three years at a major international firm with a large China practice.

He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and has published extensively in journals such as the China Quarterly and American Journal of Comparative Law on subjects ranging from Chinese criminal law and procedure to corporate governance. His recent research has focused on Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China’s economic reforms.

In addition to his academic work on Chinese law, Professor Clarke founded and maintains Chinalaw (formerly Chinese Law Net), the leading Internet listserv on Chinese law, writes the Chinese Law Prof Blog, is a co-editor of Asian Law Abstracts on the Social Science Research Network, and has often served as an expert witness on matters of Chinese law. Professor Clarke also speaks and reads Japanese and has published translations of Japanese legal scholarship in Law in Japan.

He is a member of the New York Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Tao DU (杜濤) is Vice Dean and Professor at International Law School of the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai. He is the Standing Member of Chinese Academy of Private International Law, Deputy Director of the Centre for Proof of Foreign Law, Director of BRICS Legal Studies and Director of the Research Centre (ECUPL) for International Judicial Assistance of the Supreme People’s Court. He is author of many books and articles about private international law and comparative law.

Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School, Duisenberg School of Finance, Hebrew University, IDC Herzilya, and Tel Aviv University. He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. His well-known book Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation, co-authored with Lucian Bebchuk, has been widely acclaimed by both academics and practitioners and translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Fried has served as a consultant and expert witness in litigation involving executive compensation and corporate governance issues. He also serves on the Research Advisory Council of proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co.

Wei Gao is associate professor at Peking University Law School. She received an LL.M degree from University of Heidelberg (Germany) in 2006 and a Doctor of Law (Dr. iur.) from University of Bern (Switzerland) in 2009. She was a post- doctoral research fellow at Peking University Law School from 2010 to 2011. She began teaching at Shanghai Jiao Tong University KoGuan Law School in 2012, and joined Peking University Law School in the spring of 2016. She has been a visiting professor of law at Duke University. She teaches and writes in the areas of international commercial arbitration, international economic law, private international law. Wei Gao’s research has included theoretical analysis of international arbitration and economics underlying business transactions. She is also interested in the design of online dispute resolution mechanisms, role and responsibility of Internet intermediaries, and the relationship between social structure and economic development. Her book Die Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche in der VR China (in German) was published by Verlag Dr. Kovač in 2010. She has also published quite a few articles in several leading journals.

Dr. Weixia Gu is a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Asia-Pacific Interest Group.

Gu specializes in arbitration, dispute resolution, private international law and cross- border legal issues. Her works have appeared in leading comparative and international law journals. She is a recipient of HKU’s Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Outstanding Teaching Award (in Law), and Faculty of Law’s Research Output Prize. Her scholarship has been cited by the US Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit, US Texas Supreme Court, Hong Kong High Court, and Singapore Law Gazette. She is an elected Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and sits on the Governing Council of the China Society of Private International Law and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. Since 2012, she has been sitting on the editorial board of the Hong Kong Law Journal (SSCI), the leading scholarly peer-reviewed law journal in Hong Kong.

GUO Li ( 郭雳) is a Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Peking University Law School, and the chief editor of PKU Law Journal (Routledge). He has also taught and researched at Cornell, Duke, Sydney, Vanderbilt, and is the recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. His scholarly interests cover financial laws, social development and comparative studies. He is the Vice Chairman of China Banking Law Society, and accredited by the Ministry of Education in China and the Beijing Municipal Government, among the others.

Prof. Guo has published 60 articles in different SSCI or CSSCI journals. He serves as an expert member for various committees of State Supervisory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Asset Management Association, National Internet Finance Association, etc. He is named as an arbitrator at Beijing Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration, and admitted into the Bar of China and New York State. He is a graduate of PKU, Southern Methodist, and Harvard Law School.

Colleen Honigsberg is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where her research is focused on the empirical study of corporate and securities law. Her recent papers have examined gaps in the regulatory environment for financial advisors, the effect of usury laws on credit availability, and the incentive structure for auditors. Her research has been featured in major mainstream publications such as the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and her scholarship has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Law & Economics and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Prior to joining the faculty in 2016, Professor Honigsberg received her Ph.D. from Columbia Business School and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She has expertise in accounting and previously worked as a Certified Public Accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services and for Compass Lexecon. In addition, she previously served as a Senior Economic Research Fellow with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Nicholas Calcina Howson, the Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law, is a former partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who worked out of the firm’s New York, Paris, London, and Beijing offices, finally as a managing partner of the firm’s Asia Practice based in the Chinese capital. He earned his BA from Williams College and his JD from Columbia Law School. Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), both as a scholar and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing. Professor Howson writes and lectures widely on Chinese law topics, focusing on Chinese corporate law and securities regulation, the Chinese capital markets, Chinese legal history, and the development of constitutionalism in Greater China. Professor Howson has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the Asian Development Bank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Chinese legislature and various PRC government ministries and administrative departments in connection with the drafting of PRC statutes and regulations. He acts as a Chinese law expert or party advocate in U.S. and international litigation and/or U.S. government enforcement actions. In addition to Michigan Law, he also has visited and taught at the Berkeley (Boalt), Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard law schools. Professor Howson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, and a designated foreign arbitrator for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission in Beijing and the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. He is a former chair of the Asian Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

Robin Hui Huang is Professor of Law (senior level) in the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, specializing in corporate law, securities regulation, financial law, foreign investment, and commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on Chinese and comparative issues. He has also hold other posts such as Adjunct Professor of Law at University of New South Wales, Li Ka Shing Visiting Professor of Law at McGill University, ‘Jing Tian Scholar’ Honorary Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, and Guest Professor at China University of Political Science and Law. He has had about 120 scholarly publications, including about 10 books in leading publishing houses and many papers in top journals in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, Mainland China and elsewhere. He serves as Expert Advisor for courts (e.g., Shanghai Financial Court) and provides expert consultancy for regulators (e.g., Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission). He is an arbitrator in China and overseas. He acts as a Chinese law expert in court litigations and enforcement proceedings in many jurisdictions.  

Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Langevoort was the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 1981. The courses Professor Langevoort teaches are Contracts, Securities Regulation, various seminars on corporate and securities issues, and Corporations. Professor Langevoort has received the the Frank Flegal Teaching Award at Georgetown and the Paul J. Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching at Vanderbilt. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School and a lecturer at the Washington College of Law, American University. After practicing for two years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., he joined the staff of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. Professor Langevoort is the co-author, with Professors James Cox and Robert Hillman, of Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law & Business), and the author of a treatise entitled Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement and Prevention (West Group). He has also written many law review articles, a number of which seek to incorporate insights from social psychology and behavioral economics into the study of corporate and securities law and legal ethics. Professor Langevoort has testified numerous times before Congressional committees on issues relating to insider trading and securities litigation reform.

Jing Leng, Professor of law, East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL); LLB and MPhil, Peking University; LLM, Kyushu University (Japan); SJD, University of Toronto. Prior to joining ECUPL, Professor Leng had been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2013. Her specialties are corporate and securities law in mainland China, as well as comparative corporate governance.

Professor Leng’s work has been published by leading law journals and academic publishing houses in both Chinese and English languages, including Virginia Law Review, Peking University Law Journal, Peking University Law Review, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Peking University Press. She had also won the Outstanding Research Output Prize by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law.

Professor Leng has held a variety of academic and professional affiliations, including council member of China Securities Law Association, Academic Secretary of the Asian Law and Economics Association, fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law of the University of Hong Kong, research advisor on cross-border listing for the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries, editor of the Hong Kong Law Journal, and member of the executive committee of the Sino-British Joint Research Center on Commercial Law established by ECUPL and the University of Leeds.

Dr. Yan Liu is a professor of law in Peking University Law School and currently serves as the Director of Corporate Finance & Law Centre. She teaches Accounting For business lawyers, Corporate Finance & Law, and holds some seminar on Banking and Securities Law. Her research also covers such topics as limited liability partnership, accountants’ liability and business taxation.

Beside her teaching and research, Dr. Liu is actively involved in legislative consultancy and other professional work. She was a member of drafting group of China’s Partnership Law from 2005-2007 and provides research assistance to the revision of China’s Company Law and Insurance Law. Holding both certificates of lawyer and accountant, she sits at the board of Legal Assistance Committee of China’s Institute of CPAs and is a member of Beijing and Shenzhen Arbitration Committee. She also serves as an independent director of several Chinese list companies.

Dr. Liu got her bachelar’s degree, master’s degree and Ph.D in law from Law School, Peking University. She is married and has a son. She loves sport and music and is an active player in PKU annual sport games.

Curtis J. Milhaupt’s research and teaching interests include comparative corporate governance, the legal systems of East Asia (particularly Japan), and state capitalism. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he has co-authored or edited seven books, including Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (Oxford, 2016), Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development Around the World (Chicago, 2008) and Transforming Corporate Governance in East Asia (Routledge, 2008). His research has been profiled in The Economist, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal and has been widely translated. He is a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the American Law Institute.

Prior to his Stanford appointment in 2018, Prof. Milhaupt held chaired professorships in comparative corporate law and Japanese law at Columbia Law School, where he served on the faculty for nearly two decades. He has held numerous visiting appointments at US and foreign universities and is the recipient of two teaching awards. He has been affiliated with think tanks such as the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies and has been a member of several international project teams focused on major policy issues in Asia, including one charged with designing an “institutional blueprint” for a unified Korean peninsula.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Milhaupt practiced corporate law in New York and Tokyo with a major law firm. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He also conducted graduate studies in law and international relations at the University of Tokyo.

KoGuan Distinguished Professor of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School; PhD (London School of Economics and Political Science), LLM (University of Cambridge), LLM (University of Michigan), LLM & LLB (East China University of Political Science and Law); Attorney-at-Law, New York. Professor Shen is the former Dean of Shandong University Law School, China.

Professor Shen is Global Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, L. Bates Lea Visiting Professor of Law at Michigan Law School, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Académie international de droitcomparé), a member of Moody’s China Academic Advisory Panel, a member of Financial Markets Law Committee of G20 Steering Group, and an Honorary Fellow of Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong, and has been included in Marquis Who’s Who (2011 onwards).

Professor Shen is an arbitrator with London Court of International Arbitration, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (International), Japan Commercial Arbitration Commission, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration, and Qingdao Arbitration Commission, among others. He is also a mediator with the China Securities Investor Services Centre (ISC).

Professor Shen was a Senior Research Fellow at Max-Planck Institute of International and Comparative Law (Hamburg) (Summer 2013), a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School (2013-2014). He is a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School (Fall 2012), Taiwan Chiao Tong University (Fall 2014), New York University School of Law (Winter 2014), Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (Spring 2015), Singapore Management University (Fall 2015), University of Hong Kong (Spring 2016), Adjunct Research Professor of Law at CBFL, National University of Singapore (2016), Visiting Professor of Law, National University of Singapore (Spring 2017), Visiting Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong (Spring 2018 & 2019), and L. Bates Lea Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Law School (Winter 2019).

Professor Shen is an editor of Chinese Journal of International Law (SSCI, Oxford University Press), Journal of East Asia and International Law (SSCI), European Business Law Review (Wolters Kluwer), Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press), China and WTO Review (Yijun Press, South Korea), China Legal Science (English version, China Law Society), Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP), Chinese Journal of Global Governance (Brill Nijhoff), International Journal of Legal Discourse (De Gruyter Mouton, Germany). He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Foundation for Law and International Affairs Review.

Prior to teaching at the law school, Professor Shen practiced in major US and UK firms in Shanghai, Chicago and Hong Kong for a decade primarily assisting multinational clients in their China-related transactions such as foreign direct investment, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and commercial arbitration.

Professor Shen is now teaching international investment law, international financial regulation, company law, international economic law and contract law in the law school. Professor Shen’s current research interests include international investment law, corporate governance, financial regulation, and international commercial arbitration.
Professor Shen is the sole author of seven books: Rethinking the New York Convention – A Law and Economics Approach (Cambridge: Intersentia 2013), The Anatomy of China’s Banking Sector and Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 2014), How Is International Economic Order Shaped? – Law, Markets and Globalisation (China Law Press 2014), Corporate Law in China: Structure, Governance and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell 2015), Investor Protection in Capital Markets – The Case of Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell 2015), Shadow Banking in China: Risk, Regulation and Policy (Edward Elgar 2016), and Chinese Business Law: Narrative and Commentary (Wolters Kluwer 2016). He edited two books: Private Law in China and Taiwan: A Law and Economic Analysis (Cambridge University Press 2016, with Chang and Wang), and Financial Regulation in the Aftermath of Global Financial Crisis: Chinese and US Perspectives (China Law Press 2016, with Romano).

Professor Shen also contributed to 36 books (32 in English and 4 in Chinese) and authored (or co-authored) over 200 articles in English and Chinese law journals. His article was cited by the Supreme Court of Singapore in its judgment, and his expert opinions were accepted and applied by the Hong Kong High Court in cases.

Partner of Shanghai Hanlian Law Firm, Elected executive member of the Commercial Law Society of China and the Banking Law Society of China. Vice- President of the Financial Law Society of Shanghai. Mr Song has close to 30 years of experience in practicing in the area of corporate and financial law.

As a professor at Tsinghua University School of Law and the associate director of Tsinghua University Business Law Centre, Xin Tang’s interests focus on capital market law and comparative corporate governance. Tang published widely in the fields of protection of securities market investors, fiduciary duties of the directors and controlling shareholders, minority shareholder suits, merger and acquisition of the listed companies and legal liabilities of market abuse. He has also taught at leading universities in US and Israel. Professor Tang served as a member of the Merger and Restructuring Review Commission of China Securities Regulatory Commission, an agency empowered by the securities market regulator in China to regulate the merger and acquisition of the public companies, he is now sitting in the Listing Board of Shanghai Stock Exchange, the biggest securities market in China.

Yingmao TANG is an associate professor at Peking University Law School and Deputy Director of Peking University Nuclear Policy and Law Center. Prior to joining the faculty of Peking University Law School in 2009, he was a practicing lawyer with the U.S. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and an in-house counsel for China International Capital Corporation.

Mr. Tang teaches International Economic Law, International Financial Regulation, Foreign Investment Law (English) to undergraduate and graduate students at Peking University Law School, including foreign students enrolled in the Master of Chinese Law Program and the Yenching Scholar Program at the University. Mr. Tang’s research areas include international finance transactions and regulations, cross-boarder mergers & acquisitions and the Chinese judicial system. His recent research interests include Panda Bonds and opening of China’s capital markets, online judicial transparency and big data & computational legal studies.

Mr. Tang received his bachelor’s degree in law and master’s degree in law from Peking University Law School in 1997 and 1999, and his master’s degree in law and doctor’s degree in law (J.S.D) from Yale Law School in 1999 and 2004.

Dr. Dicky Tsang is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research areas are private international law and company law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of leading international journals, including the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and multiple articles in the Journal of Private International Law.

Prior to joining academia, he practised as a corporate finance lawyer at two leading international law firms, working in their New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York, England & Wales and Hong Kong.

Dr. Tsang was awarded his LL.B. and PCLL at the University of Hong Kong. He also holds degrees from Georgetown University (S.J.D.), Columbia University (LL.M., J.D.) and University College London (LL.M.).

Professor Wolff was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law in January 2019 and assumed the Deanship on 30 September 2019.  Prior to that he was the Dean of the CUHK Graduate School from September 2014 to August 2019. Professor Wolff was a founding member of the Faculty of Law (then: School of Law). He has served amongst others as Associate Dean (Faculty Development) (9/2008 to 7/2010), as Director of the Master of Laws Programmes in International Economic Law, Common Law and Chinese Business Law (9/2008 to 7/2011) and as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) & Head of Graduate Division of Law (8/2010 to 8/2014).  Professor Wolff specializes in International and Chinese Business Law, Comparative Law, and Private International Law. He has studied, worked and conducted research in a number of jurisdictions, including mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA. He is admitted to practice in England & Wales and in Germany. He is frequently invited to work as consultant with multi-national companies and law firms on investment projects in the Greater China region.

Prof. Donghui Wu holds BA and MA degrees in accountancy from Xiamen University and a PhD in accountancy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a Certified Public Accountant (non-practicing) of China. He is currently a Professor at CUHK Business School and the Director of Centre for Institutions and Governance of CUHK. Prior to joining CUHK, he taught at Lingnan University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Wu has broad research interests in accounting, auditing, and corporate finance, with a special focus on the emerging and transitional economy of China. He is currently Associate Editor of China Journal of Accounting Research and Ad Hoc Editor for Contemporary Accounting Research.

Wenming Xu is the Associate Professor and Associate Dean of School of Law and Economics at China University of Political Science and Law. He obtained his BA and LLB from CUPL, and Ph.D.in Law and Economics from University of Bologna. Wenming has visited the University of Oxford, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, University of Chicago and Northwestern University. His scholarship mainly focuses on empirical law and finance, and he has an extensive publication in international peer-reviewed journals, including International Review of Law and Economics, European Business Organization Law Review and Economics of Governance.

法學博士、教授、博士研究生導師
中國人民大學法學院民商法教研室主任
中國人民大學營商環境法治研究中心主任
中國人民大學國際商事爭端預防與解決研究院執行院長
中國人民大學民商事法律科學研究中心研究員
在中國人民大學法學院任教，主要講授公司法、證券法、金融商品交易法、合同法等課程，先後出版《違約責任及其比較研究》、《中國公司法》、《公司法研究》、《證券法》、《證券法教程》、《商法原理與案例教程》、《期貨期權市場法律制度研究》等著作；發表有關公司法和證券法等金融法領域的論文40餘篇，各類論文總數逾百篇。
先後參加2005年公司法、2019年證券法的修訂，2014年期貨法起草；曾接受上海證券交易所、深圳證券交易所、上海期貨交易所、中國金融期貨交易所、新三板、投服中心、中國證券登記結算公司等委託，主持公司法和資本市場法制課題。

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James Si Zeng is assistant professor of law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He works on corporate law, financial regulation, and law and economics. His scholarship has appeared in leading student-edited law reviews such as the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Columbia Asian Law, Review of Banking and Financial Law, as well as peer-review journals such as the European Business Organizational Law Review and Peking University Law Journal(中外法學). His doctoral dissertation, State Ownership as a Substitute for Costly Regulation, was supported by the Oscar M. Reubhausen Fund at Yale Law School. He is also conducting research on Chinese corporate law supported by the Early Career Scheme of the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, China.

Professor Zeng graduated from Yale Law School with an LL.M and a J.S.D. degree. Prior to that Professor Zeng graduated from Peking University (LL.B., B.A. in Economics, Mphil in Law). He passed the National Judicial Examination of China and is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Zhang Wei is an Assistant Professor and Associate Dean of the Singapore Management University, School of Law. He earned his LL.B. from Fudan University, M.A. in Civil Law from Waseda University,  LL.M. from Harvard  Law  School  and  Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley. Dr. Zhang specializes in corporate and commercial law, property law, law and economics, and Chinese law. He focuses on quantitative empirical studies of law and the effects of legal system on society. His works have been published in various peer-reviewed journals in U.S., U.K., China and Taiwan. He presents routinely at major international conferences in law and economics and empirical legal studies. Dr. Zhang has also been invited as a visiting professor or guest speaker to top universities and regulatory agencies in China, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Renmin University, Zhejiang University, China University of Political Science and Law, as well as the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.