PROF. SIYI LIN 林思怡教授
Assistant Professor 助理教授

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

Dr. Siyi Lin is an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law. Dr. Lin’s research interests include unjust enrichment, trust law, contract law and property law.

Dr. Lin completed her PhD at CUHK LAW where her doctoral thesis was awarded the Young Scholars Thesis Award for best PhD thesis. Prior to her PhD, Dr. Lin obtained her LLM from CUHK LAW and her LLB from China University of Political Science and Law.

Dr. Lin is qualified as a lawyer in mainland China. Her previous professional experience includes work at King & Wood Mallesons and Fangda Partners in Hong Kong and Shenzhen offices.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Journal Articles

  • “Knowing Receipt in Chinese Trust Law” (2024) Journal of Equity (with Jing Hui) (forthcoming)
  • “Justifying the Law of Unjust Enrichment: A Confucian Perspective“ (2024) Washington International Law Journal (forthcoming)
  • “Registration of Chinese Trusts: Lessons from English Trust Law” (2023) 3 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (pp. 267-287) (with Jing Hui)
  • “The Transplantation of Quistclose Trusts in China — Legal Difficulties and Normative Uncertainty” (2021) Journal of Equity (pp.153-180) (with Jing Hui)
  • “Prosecutor v Ratko Mladic — Challenges to Judicial Impartiality” (2020) 6 European Human Rights Law Review (pp.655-663) (with Henry Z.Y. You)
  • “The History of a Mystery: The Evolution of the Law of Unjust Enrichment in Germany, England and China” (2020) 3 (2) International Comparative, Policy & Ethics Law Review (pp.337-381) (with Lutz-Christian Wolff and Steven Gallagher)
  • “Looking Back and Thinking Forward: The Current Round of Civil Law Codification in China” (2019) 52 (3) The International Lawyer (pp.439-467)
  • “The Introduction of the New Negative List: A Remarkable but Limited Development of Foreign Investment Regulations in China” (2019) 1 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation (pp.27-31) (with Henry Z.Y. You)
  • “China’s International Commercial Court under the Belt and Road Initiative” (2018) 11 International Company and Commercial Law Review (pp.664-670)
  • “China’s New Charity Law: A New Era of Charitable Trusts” (2018) 8 Trusts & Trustees (pp.768-777)

Book Chapters

  • “The Historical Developments of the Law of Unjust Enrichment in China” in Sagi Peari and Warren Swain (eds), Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine & Theory (Oxford University Press, 2023) (pp. 29-54)
  • “Mandate Contracts” in Bu Yuanshi (ed), Chinese Civil Code – The Specific Parts (C.H. Beck Verlag, 2023) (pp. 171-186)
  • “Exceptions to Pacta Sunt Servanda in the Chinese Civil Code” in Normann Witzleb (ed), Pacta sunt servanda in Changing Times: East Asian Perspectives (Routledge, 2023) (pp. 20-37)
  • “Artworks and Charitable Trusts in China” in Marta Cenini (ed), Trust, Artistic Estates and Collections (Wolters Kluwer, 2019) (pp. 101-122)

Case Comment

  • “Change of Position as Defence to Unjust Enrichment Claims: Stories from Hong Kong” (with Henry Z.Y. You) (2023) 52 (2-3) Common Law World Review (pp. 53-60)

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD, CUHK LAW
  • LLM, CUHK LAW
  • LLB, China University of Political Science and Law
  • Qualified lawyer in PRC

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Excellent Lawyer Award, King & Wood Mallesons (2022)
  • Young Scholars Thesis Award, CUHK (2019)
  • Postgraduate Research Output Award, CUHK (2018-2019)
  • Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence, CUHK (2018-2019)
  • HKSAR Scholarship Fund Reaching-Out Award, Hong Kong Government (2017)
  • HKSAR Scholarship Fund Talent Award, Hong Kong Government (2017)
  • Champion, International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition, Chinese Version (2016)
  • LLM Scholarship for Academic Excellence, CUHK (2015)
  • Dean’s List Award, Faculty of Law, CUHK (2015) 
  • Scholarship for Academic Excellence, CUPL (2010, 2011 & 2012)