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PROF. DICKY TSANG 曾勁峰教授
Associate Professor 副教授

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Prof. Dicky Tsang is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, where he currently serves as Assistant Dean (Education) and LLB Programme Director. His main research areas are private international law and company law. His scholarship has appeared in a number of leading international journals, including the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Journal of Private International Law. His work has been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the European Union in WTO dispute-settlement proceedings.

Prior to joining academia, Prof. Tsang practised as a corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling (now A&O Shearman), working in their New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai offices. He is admitted to practise in New York, England and Wales, and Hong Kong (all non-practising).

Prof. Tsang received his LL.B. and PCLL from the University of Hong Kong. He also holds an S.J.D. from Georgetown University, an LL.M. and J.D. from Columbia University, and an LL.M. from University College London.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers

  • King Fung Tsang & Sagi Peari, Hybrid Extraterritoriality in Data Regulation, Virginia Journal of International Law (forthcoming).
  • King Fung Tsang, Private International Law in Commercial Arbitration Through the Lens of National Interest, American Review of International Arbitration (forthcoming)
  • King Fung Tsang, Weaponization of Private International Law: The Battle between the United States and China, 28 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 213 (2025)
  • King Fung Tsang, Proof-of-Foreign Law Issues in Greater Bay Area, 24(2) The China Review 41 (2024)
  • King Fung Tsang & Weiji Lin, So Far Yet So Close: Comparing Governing Laws in Arbitration Agreements under English and Chinese Laws, 56 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 483 (2023)
  • King Fung Tsang & Kasper Fan, The Proper Role of Agency in Corporate Group 56, The International Lawyer 333 (2023)
  • King Fung Tsang & Jyh-An Lee, The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in the FRAND Litigation, 28 Michigan Technology Law Review 305 (2022)
  • King Fung Tsang, International Application of CFAA: Scraping Data or Scraping Law?, 66 St. Louis U. L.J. 311 (2022)
  • King Fung Tsang & Katie Ng, Direct Liability and Veil-Piercing: When One Door Closes, Another Opens, 27 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 141 (2022)
  • King Fung Tsang, An Empirical Research on Choice of Law in China: A Home Run?, 21 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 339 (2022)
  • King Fung Tsang, Choice of Law in Sino-Japanese Contracts: Some Empirical Observations, 50 Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics 9 (2022)
  • Alan Gibb & King Fung Tsang, Conflicting Limitation Periods – A Comparison between Hong Kong and Mainland China, 5 Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review 1 (2021)
  • King Fung Tsang & Tsz Wai Wong, Enforcement of Non-Monetary Judgments in Common Law Jurisdictions: Is the Time Ripe?, 45 Fordham International Law Journal 379 (2021)
  • King Fung Tsang, From Coronation to Coronavirus: Covid-19, Force Majeure and Private International Law, 44 Fordham International Law Journal 187 (2020)
  • King Fung Tsang & Jyh-An Lee, Unfriendly Choice of Law in FRAND, 59 Virginia Journal of International Law 220 (2019)
  • King Fung Tsang, International Multiple Derivative Actions, 52 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 75 (2019)
  • King Fung Tsang, Bilateral Treaty on Mutual Enforcement of Judgments between Japan and China, 47 Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics 31 (2019)
  • King Fung Tsang, China’s Rule of Law through the Eyes of Private International Law in Common Law Jurisdictions, 47 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 104 (2019)
  • King Fung Tsang, Enforcement of Foreign Commercial Judgments in China, 14 Journal of Private International Law 262 (2018)
  • King Fung Tsang, An Empirical Research on Piercing the Corporate Veil and Enforcement of Foreign Judgment, 52 Texas International Law Journal 103 (2017)
  • King Fung Tsang, Double Actionability: An Outdated Rule in Modern Times, 86 UMKC Law Review 73 (2017)
  • King Fung Tsang, Chinese Bilateral Enforcement Treaties, 40 Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review 1 (2017)
  • King Fung Tsang, The Elephant in the Room: An Empirical Study of Piercing the Corporate Veil in the Jurisdictional Context, 12 Hastings Business Law Journal 185 (2016)
  • King Fung Tsang, Applicable Law in Piercing the Corporate Veil in the United States: A Choice with No Choice, 10 Journal of Private International Law 227 (2014)
  • King Fung Tsang, National Security Review of Foreign Acquisition: US and China, 22 International Company and Commercial Law Review 294 (2011)
  • King Fung Tsang, Listing Destination of Chinese Companies: New York or Hong Kong? 23 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 360 (2010)
  • King Fung Tsang, Forum Shopping in Insurance Litigations: A Comparison of the Jurisdiction Rules between EU and the US, 32 Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review 239 (2010)
  • King Fung Tsang, Forum Shopping in European Insurance Litigation: What We Have Learned from New Hampshire Insurance Co. v. Strabag Bau, 16 Columbia Journal of European Law Online 1 (2009)

Book Authored

  • King Fung Tsang, An Introduction to the Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong (LexisNexis. 3rd ed. 2024) (with Alan Gibb)
  • King Fung Tsang, An Introduction to the Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, practitioners’ edition, 2020) (with Alan Gibb & Richard Morris)
  • King Fung Tsang, An Introduction to the Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, 2nd 2019) (with Alan Gibb & Richard Morris)
  • King Fung Tsang, An Introduction to the Conflict of Laws in Hong Kong (LexisNexis, 2017) (with Alan Gibb & Richard Morris)

Book Chapters

  • King Fung Tsang, Rethinking Jurisdiction in Online Defamation in Web3 Governance: Law & Policy (Routledge, Joseph Lee and Jyh-An Lee eds., 2025)
  • King Fung Tsang, CISG as Applicable Law in China in Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (Sweet & Maxwell, Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit & Sai Ramani Garimella eds., 2019)
  • King Fung Tsang, The Role of Hong Kong in Dispute Resolutions of One Belt One Road in China’s One Belt One Road Initiative and Private International Law (Routledge, Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit & Sai Ramani Garimella eds., 2018)

RESEARCH GRANT

  • Principal Investigator, General Research Fund (2026/27), Harmonization of Choice of Law in China, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$982,490.
  • Principal Investigator, Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (2025/26), The Impact of Digitalisation on Legal Rules Concerning Cross-Border Interactions and Commercial Dealings – Supporting the Role of Hong Kong as a Centre for International Dispute Resolution Services, Chief Executive’s Policy Unit, Hong Kong SAR Government, HK$454,710.
  • Principal Investigator, General Research Fund (2023/24), Review of Jurisdiction in Chinese Courts, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$718,000.
  • Principal Investigator, CUHK Direct Grant (2025/26), Governmental Interest: Making Hong Kong Great through Private International Law, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$50,000.
  • Co-Investigator, General Research Fund (2018/19), An Empirical and Comparative Study of Law Students’ Perceptions of Their Values in Four Emerging and Transitional Economies: China, Russia, South Africa and Kazakhstan, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$918,160.
  • Co-Investigator, General Research Fund (2017/18), Corporate Governance of Controlled Firms: An Empirical Study of Company Constitutions in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$637,330.
  • Co-Investigator, General Research Fund (2017/18), An Empirical and Comparative Study of Law Students’ Perceptions of Their Values in Four Fastest-Growing Asian Countries: China, India, Thailand and the Philippines, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$844,880.
  • Principal Investigator, Early Career Scheme (2016/17), An Empirical Review of China’s New Choice-of-Law Regime: In Search of Clear Guidelines?, Hong Kong SAR Research Grants Council (RGC), HK$532,901.
  • Principal Investigator, CUHK Direct Grant (2022/23), Agency as an Avenue to Shareholders’ Liabilities, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$44,000.
  • Principal Investigator, CUHK Direct Grant (2020/21), From Coronation to Coronavirus: Force Majeure and Private International Law, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$40,000.
  • Principal Investigator, CUHK Direct Grant (2017/18), Investigating and Rethinking Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$58,500.

TEACHING GRANT

  • Principal Investigator, Micro-Module Courseware Development Grant Scheme, 2017/18, “Understanding Company Law”, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK$100,000, 12 months

AWARDS

  • Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2025, CUHK
  • Teaching Excellence Award 2024, Faculty of Law, CUHK
  • Outstanding Research Impact Award 2022-23, CUHK
  • Research Excellence Award 2019-2020, CUHK
  • Teaching Excellence Award 2016-2017, Faculty of Law, CUHK