Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin is a Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong. She writes widely in the areas of corporate law, securities regulation, and corporate finance. Her work has appeared in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and has been featured in major media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Bloomberg. Professor Lin’s scholarship has been cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, underscoring its impact on policymaking.

Professor Lin currently serves as the President of the Asian Law and Economics Association and the Associate Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. She is also a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute. She has held visiting positions at Washington University in St. Louis, Reichman University, and Academia Sinica. Prior to her academic career, Professor Lin practiced as a corporate lawyer specializing in initial public offerings and corporate finance transactions. She received the J.S.D. and J.S.M. degrees from Stanford Law School.

Honors and Awards

• Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS), Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Government (2026).
• Outstanding Research Awards for Junior Faculty, City University of Hong Kong (2024)
• Outstanding Research Awards, City University of Hong Kong, School of Law (2019)

Editorship

• Associate Editor, International Review of Law and Economics, 2024-present
• Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Law Review, 2020-present
• Editor, Taiwan Financial and Economic Law Review, 2018-present

Selected Publications

• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Curtis J. Milhaupt, China's Corporate Social Credit System: The Dawn of Surveillance State Capitalism? 256 The China Quarterly 835-853 (2023).
• Christopher Chao-Hung Chen, Re-Jin Guo, and Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, The Effect of Political Influence on Corporate Valuation: Evidence from Party-Building Reform in China, 73 International Review of Law and Economics 106120 (2023).
• Yun-chien Chang and Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, 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).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Yu Xiang, 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).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Curtis J. Milhaupt, Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance, 50(1) Journal of Legal Studies 187-217 (2021).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Institutionalizing Political Influence in Business: Party-Building and Insider Control in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises, 45 Vermont Law Review 441–480 (2021).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Yun-chien Chang, An Empirical Study of Default Rules and Menus in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, 15(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 875-915 (2018).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and 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).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Controlling Controlling-Minority Shareholders: Corporate Governance and Leveraged Corporate Control, 2017(2) Columbia Business Law Review 453-510 (2017).
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Modeling Securities Class Action Outside the United States: The Role of Nonprofits in the Case of Taiwan, 4 New York University Journal of Law and Business 143-198 (2007).

Works in Progress

• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, BlackRock Exceptionalism in the Geopolitics of Proxy Voting.
• Jesse M. Fried, Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, and Yu Xiang, The Anti-US Bias of the EU’s Sustainability Directive.
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin and Yu Xiang, AI Specialists and Corporate Governance.
• Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, Competing for Value or Values? The Future of Global Capital Market Competition.

Selected Media Appearances

• Xi Jinping’s Grip on Chinese Enterprise Gets Uncomfortably Tight, The Economist (November 26, 2023).
• Lingling Wei, China’s New Way to Control Its Biggest Companies: Golden Shares, The Wall Street Journal (March 9, 2023).
• China’s Tech Founders Mostly Keep an Iron Grip Over Their Firms, The Economist (Sept. 13, 2018).
• Benjamin Robertson and Andrea Tan, Investors Wave Red Flags at Hong Kong Dual-Class Shares Plan, Bloomberg (August 23, 2017).