PROF. CHAO XI 習超教授

Professor 教授
Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law 法律學院傑出學人

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Chao XI serves as the Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined CUHK in 2007 after earning his PhD from the University of London. He has held several leadership positions within the Faculty of Law at CUHK, including Interim Dean, Associate Dean (Research), and Head of the Graduate Division of Law. Professor Xi is internationally recognised for his research and scholarship in Chinese law, corporate law and governance, securities regulation, financial regulation, and empirical legal studies. He has secured numerous competitive research grants, including several prestigious fundings from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. In recognition of his deep commitment to teaching excellence, Professor Xi has received the esteemed CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2010, 2017, and 2022.

Professor Xi is dedicated to public service and has contributed to significant legal reform initiatives. He has served in various roles, including as a member of the Department of Justice’s Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Task Force. His expertise has been valued by law firms, multinational enterprises, and government agencies.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD (University of London)
  • LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law (University of London)
  • LLB (Sun Yat-Sen University)
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

AWARDS

  • CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2022
  • CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2017
  • CUHK Young Researcher Award 2011
  • CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2010
  • CUHK Research Excellence Award 2009-2010

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Chinese Law
  • Corporate Law and Governance
  • Securities Regulation
  • Financial Regulation
  • Empirical Legal Studies

EXTERNALLY COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Principal Investigator, ‘‘Harmonization of Business and Commercial Laws in the Greater Bay Area: Concepts, Approaches, and Policy Options’, Research Impact Fund (RIF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2024-2029, HK$6,857,143 (including matching funds)
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Regulating Outbound Data Flows in China’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2024-2026, HK$ 996,300
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Corporate Charters in China’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2023-2025, HK$930,625
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Corporate Boards in China’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2019-2021, HK$767,494
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Shareholder Voting in China’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2017-2019, HK$983,500
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Public Enforcement of Securities Laws in China’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2014-2016, HK$734,750
  • Principal Investigator, ‘The Political Economy of Corporate Law Reform in China: The Rise and Decline of the UK-Style Mandatory Bid Rule as a Case Study’, General Research Fund (GRF), Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council, 2012-2014, HK$467,059
  • International Principal Investigator, ‘Re-examining Shareholder Voting and Engagement in Emerging Economies of PR China and India’, Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration, the Government of India, 2019-2020, INR ₹ 2,284,070
  • Co-Principal Investigator, ‘Foreign M&A and National Industrial Security in China’, PRC Ministry of Education Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, PRC Central Government, 2012-2014, RMB¥800,000
  • Principal Investigator, ‘A Study on the Law and Practice of the Mandatory Bid Rule in Japan: Policy Implications for China’, The Sumitomo Foundation Grant for Japan-Related Research Projects, 2011-2012, US$9,000

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Select Books, Edited Volumes and Special Issues

  • Legal and Regulatory Harmonization in the Greater Bay Area, special issue with The China Review (2024:2) pp.1–126
  • Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2022) (co-edited with Harpreet Kaur, Christoph Van der Elst, and Anne Lafarre)
  • How the Chinese Judiciary Works: New Insights from Data-Driven Research, special issue with The China Review (2022: 3) pp. 1–209
  • Legal Dimensions of the Belt and Road Initiative (Wolter Kluwers, 2016) (co-edited with Lutz-Christian Wolff)
    (Reviewed in International Trade Law & Regulation)
  • Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Chinese Judicial Practice, special issue with The China Review (2019: 3) pp. 1–175 (co-edited with Björn Ahl and Lidong Cai)
  • Corporate Governance and Legal Reform in China (London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2009)
    (reviewed in Compliance & Regulatory Journal, Journal of Business Law, and Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht)
  • Doing Business in China (Third Edition) & (Fourth Edition) (London: Routledge, 2009 & 2016) (hardback and paperback) (with Tim Ambler & Morgen Witzel)
    (reviewed in China Review International: ‘[This text] has become acknowledged as the bible for laˇo wài [foreigners] seeking to crack the China market.’)

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • ‘Majority-of-the-Minority Shareholder Votes and Investment Efficiency’ (2024) 89 Journal of Corporate Finance 102656 (with Ning Cao and Paul B. McGuinness)
  • ‘China’, in Jean Jacques du Plessis, Anil Hargovan and Beth Nosworthy, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance (Firth Ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2024) 394
  • ‘Legal and Regulatory Harmonization in the Greater Bay Area’ (2024) 24:2 The China Review 1
  • ‘Related Party Transactions and the Majority-of-the-Minority Rule: Data-Driven Evidence from China and Implications for Europe’ (2023) 66 Journal of Business Law 309
  • ‘China’s Regulation of Cross-Border Data Flows: Approaches, Mechanisms and Instruments’ (2023) 9 Journal of National Law University Delhi 21 (with Yingcheng Qi)
  • ‘The Right to Refuse Registration of Share Transfer: Hong Kong’s Experience and its Implication for Mainland China” (2023: 4) Law and Economy [Caijing Faxue] 23 (with Haochuan Gong)
  • ‘Corporate Criminal Compliance in the Greater Bay Area’ (2023: 12) Social Scientist [Shehui Kexue Jia] 111 (with Yongjie Xing and Xiaoyan Hou)
  • ‘Contract Law and Financial Regulation in China: An Illegality Perspective’ (2022) 38 Journal of Contract Law 79
  • ‘The End of the War or the Commencement of Battle? Cryptocurrency Regulation in China’ (2022) 37 Banking & Finance Law Review 339
  •  ‘Shareholder Voting and Engagement: An Introduction’ in Harpreet Kaur, Chao Xi, Christoph Van der Elst and Anne Lafarre (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 3 (with Anne Lafarre)
  • ‘Shareholder Voting and Engagement in China’ in Harpreet Kaur, Chao Xi, Christoph Van der Elst and Anne Lafarre (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 21
  • ‘Shareholder Engagement and Voting: Where Does the Future Lie?’ in Harpreet Kaur, Chao Xi, Christoph Van der Elst and Anne Lafarre (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 537
  • ‘How the Chinese Judiciary Works: New Insights from Data-Driven Research’ (2022) 22:3 The China Review 1
  • ‘When a Judicial Mistake Went Viral: The Diffusion of Law in China’ (2022) 22:3 The China Review 73 (with Yingcheng Qi, Ruobing Wang and Ning Cao)
  • ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Do Chinese Minority Shareholders Vote When Controlling Shareholders Change Their Minds – An Empirical Assessment’ (2022: 5) Journal of Shandong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) [Shandong Daxue Xuebao (Zhexue Shehui Kexue Ban)] 60 (with Haochuan Gong and Ning Cao)
  • ‘Does Securities Enforcement Improve Disclosure Quality? An Examination of Chinese Listed Companies’ Restatement Activities’ (2021) 67 Journal of Corporate Finance 101877 (with Ning Cao and Paul B. McGuinness)
  • ‘Are US-Listed Chinese Firms a Minefield? A Board Perspective’ (2021) 54 The International Lawyer 201 (lead article) (with Yurong Huang)
  • ‘Shareholder Voting and COVID-19: The China Experience’ (2021) 9 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 125 (lead article)
  • ‘State-Backed Shareholder Activism’ (2021: 4) Revue internationale des services financiers /International Journal for Financial Services 44
  • ‘Dance with Shackles On? An Empirical Assessment of Investor Stewardship in China’ (2021) 15 Tsinghua University Law Journal [Qinghua Faxue] 111 (with Haochuan Gong)
  • ‘Private International Law in China’s Greater Bay Area: An Empirical Assessment of the Qianhai Court Judgments’ (2021: 3) Hong Kong and Macau Journal [Gangao Yanjiu] 16 (with Tianshu Liu and Runqiao Zou)
  • ‘Financial Regulation as Interagency Competition? The Saga of Venture Capital Rule-making in China’, in Douglas Arner, Wai Yee Wan, Andrew J. Godwin and Wei Shen (eds.) Research Handbook on Asian Financial Law (Edward Elgar, 2020) 499 (with Sirui Han)
  • ‘Shareholder Voting and Corporate Sustainability in China’, in Beate Sjåfjell and Christopher Bruner (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability (Cambridge University Press 2019) 431
  • ‘A Study on the Venture Capital Laws and Regulations in the EU and US: Implications for China’, 100 Peking University Financial Law Review [Jinrong Fayuan] (2019) 188 (with Sirui Han)
  • ‘Greater Transparency, Better Regulation? Evidence from Securities Enforcement Actions’ 14 Journal of Comparative Law (2019) 350 (with Ning Cao)
  • ‘Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Chinese Judicial Practice: Opportunities, Challenges, and Issues’ (2019) 19 The China Review 1 (with Björn Ahl and Lidong Cai)
  • ‘The Revolving Door: Does it Have an Impact on Public Securities Enforcement?’ 12 (2018: Issue 4) Tsinghua University Law Journal [Qinghua Faxue] 7 (with Ning Cao and Haochuan Gong)
  • ‘CSRC Enforcement of Securities Laws: Preliminary Empirical Findings’, in Sean Griffith, Jessica Erickson, David H. Webber and Verity Winship (eds.) Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation (Edward Elgar, 2018) 513
  • ‘Public Enforcement of Securities Laws: A Case of Convergence?’ in Yun Zhao and Michael Ng (eds.) Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 81 (with Xuanming Pan)
  • ‘Shadow Banking in China: Then and Now’ (2017) 28 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 146-157 (with Le Xia)
  • ‘Legal and Regulatory Risks of “Belt of Road” Countries: An Index-Based Approach’ in Lutz-Christian Wolff and Chao Xi (eds.), Legal Dimensions of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (Wolters Kluwer, 2016) 33
  • ‘Financial Infrastructure of B&R: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Governance Issues’ in Lutz-Christian Wolff and Chao Xi (eds.), Legal Dimensions of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative (Wolters Kluwer, 2016) 341
  • ‘Why Has Basel III Become Hard Law for China? The Domestic Political Economy of International Financial Law’ in Ross Buckley, Douglas Arner and Avgouleas Emilios (eds), Rethinking Global Finance and Its Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2016) 91
  • ‘The Political Economy of Takeover Regulation: What Does the Mandatory Bid Rule in China Tell Us?’(2015) 58 Journal of Business Law 142
  • ‘Ownership Bias in Takeover Approvals?  A Study on the Regulatory Waivers of the Mandatory Takeover Bid’ (2015: Issue 4) China Management Studies [Zhongda Guanli Pinglun]  1 (with Li Shanmin, Wan Ziqiang, and Shi Xinxiang)
  • ‘From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker: China and International Banking Regulation’ in Friedl Weiss and Kammel Armin (eds.) The Changing Landscape of Global Financial Governance and the Role of Soft Law (Brill, 2015) 312
  • ‘Does Cumulative Voting Matter? The Case of China: An Empirical Assessment’ (2014) 15 European Business Organization Law Review 585 (with Yugang Chen)
  • ‘Domestic Politics as International Norms: China’s Changing Roles in International Banking Regulation’ (2014) 30 Banking and Finance Law Review 69
  • Ralls Corporation v Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States: National Security Review in the United States and its Implications for China’ (2014) 54 Journal of Sun Yat-Sen University (Social Science Edition) 199 (with Shanmin Li and Ziqiang Wan)
  • ‘Local Courts as Legislators? Judicial Lawmaking by Sub-National Courts in China’ (2012) 33 Statute Law Review 39
  • ‘The Rise and Decline of the Reversal of the Burden of Proof in China’s Medical Negligence Law: A Political Economy of Lawmaking Perspective’ (2012) 12 The China Review 33 (with Lixin Yang)
  • ‘Piercing the Corporate Veil in China: How Did We Get There?’ (2011) 55 Journal of Business Law 413
  • ‘Medical Liability Laws in China: The Tale of Two Regimes’ (2011) 19 Tort Law Review 65 (with Lixin Yang)
  • ‘Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors’ in Lutz-Christian Wolff (ed), China Outbound Investments (Hong Kong: CCH, 2011) 71
  • ‘National Reports: The People’s Republic of China’ in Christopher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer and Magdalena Tulibacka (eds), The Costs and Funding of Civil Litigation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Hart, 2010) 261 (with Michael Palmer)
  • ‘The Globalization of Class Actions: China’ (2009) 622 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 270 (with Michael Palmer)
  • ‘Foreign Solutions for Local Problems? The Use of US-Style Fiduciary Duties to Regulate Agreed Takeovers in China’ (2008) 6 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 407
  • ‘In Search of an Effective Monitoring Board Model: Board Reforms and the Political Economy of Corporate Law in China’ (2006) 22 Connecticut Journal of International Law 1
  • ‘Institutional Shareholder Activism in China: Law and Practice (Part 1)’ (2006) 17 International Company and Commercial Law Review 251
  • ‘Institutional Shareholder Activism in China: Law and Practice (Part 2)’ (2006) 17 International Company and Commercial Law Review 287
  • ‘Private Enforcement of Securities Law in China: Daqing Lianyi Co v ZHONG Weida and Others (2004) Heilongjiang High Court’ (2006) 1 Journal of Comparative Law 492
  • ‘Transforming Chinese Enterprises: Ideology, Efficiency and Instrumentalism in the Process of Reform’ in John Gillespie and Pip Nicholson (eds), Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese Renewal and Chinese Reform (Canberra: ANU Press & Asia Pacific Press, 2005) 91

SELECTED PUBLIC SERVICES

  • Assessment Panel Member, HKSAR Government’s Public Policy Research Funding Scheme and Strategic Public Policy Research Funding Scheme
  • Member, Hong Kong SAR Department of Justice’s Greater Bay Area Task Force
  • Member, Hong Kong SAR Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance)