Professor Miao is an Associate Professor of law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a DPhil degree from Oxford and two LLMs, one from New York University and the other from Renmin University of China. Professor Miao conducted research in the capacity of New York University’s Global Fellow, University of Oxford’s Howard League Fellow and British Academy’s prestigious Postdoc Research Fellow and recently Harvard Yenching Scholar (2019-20). Among Professor Miao’s research interests are the intersections between the domains of criminal justice, socio-legal studies and comparative law. She is an awardee of American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize for most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. Her scholarship and commentaries have been featured in various international media outlets, including The Guardian, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail.