Shiling Xiao is a Post-doctor Research Fellow at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD in law from HKU, MPhil in international and comparative law from the University of Macau, and LLB from the Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He was a practising lawyer in Mainland China and was called to the bar in 2018.

His research interests embrace comparative public law, human rights law and judicial review. His scholarly research is primarily focused on Greater China.

Publications:

Monograph:
1. Judicial Review in Greater China: Judicial Activism and Deference of Four Apex Courts in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau (Routledge, 2024 forthcoming)

Journal Articles:
2. ‘Counter Currents to the Globalization of Proportionality’ (2023) 41(2) Wisconsin International Law Journal (forthcoming)
3. ‘State-Centric Proportionality Analysis in Chinese Administrative Litigation’ (2023) 2 International Journal of Constitutional Law 461-487
4. Judicial Review of Administrative Rules in China: Incremental Expansion of Judicial Power’ (2022) 17(2) Journal of Comparative Law 370-392. (first author, with Yang Lin)
5. ‘Proportionality, Unreasonableness and a Unified Model: Reframing the Spectrum of Intensity of Judicial Review’ (2021) 51(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 85-113.
6. ‘Chinese Special Confiscation Procedure: Rules, Implementation and Problems’ (2021) 51(3) Hong Kong Law Journal 1041-1073.
7. ‘Reasonableness: A Better Approach to Positive and Horizontal Fundamental Rights Disputes’ (in Chinese) (2019) 6 Law and Economy 134-145.

Book Chapters:
8. ‘Proportionality and Protection of Human Rights Through Administrative Litigation’ in Guobin Zhu, Björn Ahl and Larry Catá Backer (eds), Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Constitutional Law (2024 forthcoming).
9. ‘Judicial Review and Standards of Review in the Macao SAR: A Study Based on the TUI Decision’ in Ngoc Son Bui, Stuart Hargreaves and Ryan Mitchell (eds), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law of Greater China (2022).

Book Reviews:
10. ‘Proportionality in Asia’, (2021) 51(3) Hong Kong Law Journal 1211-12151.