Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin is a leading scholar in comparative corporate law and governance. She employs empirical methodologies to dissect and gain profound insights into the impact of various governance regulations and regulatory measures on corporations. Her scholarly achievements are featured in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Professor Lin’s stature as a corporate law expert is underscored by interviews and acknowledgments from major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Bloomberg. She is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
Her research pursuits span a wide spectrum of corporate governance topics, including shareholder activism, shareholder voting, securities class action, board independence, dual-class share structure, and governance issues in state-owned enterprises. Notably, her recent research endeavors have scrutinized the nuanced interplay between the state and business. This includes an in-depth examination of the formalization of corporate party committees in Chinese companies and the far-reaching implications of implementing a social credit system on corporations in China.
Professor Lin’s research contributions have transcended the confines of academia. Her work has spurred policy transformations and earned recognition from esteemed institutions, including the Delaware Court of Chancery, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). Furthermore, she leads several research grants and consultation projects supported by governmental bodies and stock exchanges. Prior to joining the academia, she was a practicing lawyer specialized in initial public offering and corporate finance transactions. Professor Lin received her J.S.D. degree from Stanford Law School and is currently an Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong, School of Law.
- Areas of Expertise
- Corporations/Business Associations
- Securities Regulation
- Corporate Finance
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Asian/Chinese Law
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Publications
Journal Articles
- China’s Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism? The China Quarterly (forthcoming) (with Curtis J. Milhaupt).
- Featured by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (February 7, 2023).
- The Effect of Political Influence on Corporate Valuation: Evidence from Party-Building Reform in China, 73 International Review of Law and Economics 106120 (2023) (with Christopher Chen and Re-Jin Guo).
- Legal Institutions of Human Capital: Property, Contract, and Organisation, 13(4) Journal of the Knowledge Economy 3326 – 3344 (2022) (with Jyh-An Lee).
- Do State-Owned Enterprises Have Worse Corporate Governance? An Empirical Study of Corporate Practices in China, 23 European Business Organization Law Review 711-734 (2022) (with Yun-chien Chang).
- The Rise of Non-Profit Organizations in Global Securities Class Action: A New Hybrid Model in China, 60 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 493-559 (2022) (with Yu Xiang).
- Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance, 50(1) Journal of Legal Studies 187-217 (2021) (with Curtis Milhaupt).
- Featured by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (February 7, 2023).
- Featured on Stanford Centre on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) China Briefs (November 1, 2022).
- Cited in the Annual Report to Congress, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (November 2021).
- Cited in the comment to SEC re Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act Disclosure (April 5, 2021) which have been adopted in the SEC final rules (December 2, 2021).
- Featured on Stanford Lawyer (July 25, 2021).
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog (April 9, 2020).
- Institutionalizing Political Influence in Business: Party-Building and Insider Control in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises, 45 Vermont Law Review 441-480 (2021).
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog (November 19, 2021).
- Foreign Political Interference in the Governance of Listed Companies: A Market and Behavioral Analysis, 31 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 301-349 (2021) (with Chris Chen)
- Corporate Governance, Human Capital Resources, and Firm Performance: Exploring The Missing Links, 45(4) Journal of General Management 192-205 (2020) (with Kaouthar Lajili, Anoosheh Rostamkalaei)
- When Activists Meet Controlling Shareholders in the Shadow of the Law: A Case Study of Hong Kong, 14(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 1-36 (2019).
- An Empirical Study of Default Rules and Menus in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, 15(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 875-915 (2018) (with Yun-chien Chang).
- Does Mandating Cumulative Voting Weaken the Controlling Shareholders? A Difference-in-Differences Approach, 52 International Review of Law and Economics 111-123 (2017) (with Yun-chien Chang).
- Controlling Controlling-Minority Shareholders: Corporate Governance and Leveraged Corporate Control, 2017(2) Columbia Business Law Review 453-510 (2017).
- Cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery in In re CBS Corporation Stockholder Class Action and Derivative Litigation (Consolidated C.A. No. 2020-0111-JRS)
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog (April 9, 2020).
- Open Sesame: The Myth of Alibaba’s Extreme Corporate Governance and Control, 10(2) Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 437-471 (2016) (with Thomas Mehaffy).
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog (Oct 7, 2016).
- Do Social Ties Matter in Corporate Governance? The Missing Factor in Chinese Corporate Governance Reform, 5 George Mason Journal of International Commercial Law 39-74 (2013).
- Overseeing Controlling Shareholders: Do Independent Directors Constrain Tunneling in Taiwan?, 12 San Diego International Law Journal 363-416 (2011).
- Modeling Securities Class Action Outside the United States: The Role of Nonprofits in the Case of Taiwan, 4 New York University Journal of Law & Business 143-198 (2007).
Book Chapters
- Shareholder Engagement and Voting in Hong Kong, in Cambridge Handbook on Comparative Shareholder Engagement and Voting 45-61 (Harpreet Kaur et al. eds, Cambridge University Press, 2022).
- Corporate Governance in Hong Kong, in Corporate Governance in Asia 150-181 (Joongi Kim & Bruce Aronson eds., Cambridge University Press, 2019) (with Say Goo).
- From Double Board to Unitary Board System: Independent Directors and Corporate Governance Reform in Taiwan, in Independent Directors in Asia: A Historical, Contextual, and Comparative Approach 241-276 (Puchniak et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) (with Hsin-Ti Chang & Ying-Hsin Tsai).
- Featured on Oxford Business Law Blog (Sept 29, 2016).
- Revisiting Corporate Control-Enhancing Mechanisms, in Global Capital Markets – A Survey of Legal and Regulatory Trends 95-115 (M. Vasudev & Susan Watson eds., Edward Elgar, 2017).
- How Public Regulation Changes Corporate Governance Practice? The Corporate Board Reform in Taiwan, in Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis 211-228 (P.M. Vasudev & Susan Watson eds., Edward Elgar, 2012).
- China’s Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism? The China Quarterly (forthcoming) (with Curtis J. Milhaupt).