Dr Xiaochuan Weng
Associate Professor

Dr Xiaochuan Weng

SJD, LLM (Penn Law); CBL (Wharton, UPenn); MPhil in Finance (UNSW); LLM (NUS); LLM, LLB (ECUPL).

Law & Justice
School of Private & Commercial Law

Charlie Xiao-chuan WENG joined the UNSW Law faculty in 2015 as an Associate Professor. Previously, he was Eastern Scholar Chair Professor of Law and Assistant Dean at the KoGuan Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU, China) . He also taught at Nagoya University Graduate School of Law (Japan) as Designated Associate Professor. He studied law at East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) before completing his LLM at the National University of Singapore (NUS). After working for ECUPL for five years, he went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Law for his LLM and SJD in corporate law, followed by an appointment as a Robert S. McNamara Fellow at the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law. In 2012, he was recruited by SJTU as a Research Professor. He also held fellow/visiting professor positions in many leading research institutions, such as Stanford Law School and Cambridge University. 

His research interest centers on law and business. He has published widely in the fields of corporate law, securities law, and bankruptcy. His research projects were heavily supported by multiple organizations, including the World Bank and the Municipal government of Shanghai. Before joining UNSW, his research outputs well advised funding organizations and legislatures. Currently, he is especially interested in research on the law of capital markets and the fundamental theory of corporate law. Also, he is interested employing cross-disciplinary research methodologies to analyze the impact on the real economy of changes in the law governing corporate law and financial regulation

Phone
61293859547
Location
Office 346, Law Building
  • Books | 2024
    2024, COMPANY LAW IN CHINA: STATUTES, CASES AND MATERIALS, Fudan University Press
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    2024, 'Corporate Law in China: Past, Present and Future', in Xie Y (ed.), CHINESE LEGAL SYSTEM, Shanghai People Press
    Book Chapters | 2024
    2024, 'The Melting Glacier: An Introduction to Chinese Takeover Regulations', in POREEN PROJECT BY EUROPEAN UNION
    Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, 'Shanghai Shanshan Ruiyuan Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd v Lanificio Ing Loro Piana & C S P A Italy', in Guo P; Zuo H; Zhang S (ed.), Selected Chinese Cases on the UN Sales Convention (CISG), Springer-Verlag GmbH
    Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, 'Yiwu Majiali Import & Export Co., Ltd v Y & Q International Trade (Group), Inc', in Guo P; Zuo H; Zhang S (ed.), Selected Chinese Cases on the UN Sales Convention (CISG), Springer-Verlag GmbH
    Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, 'Securities Regulations in China: A Takeover Law Perspective', in CHINESE LEGAL SYSTEM, Shanghai People Press
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'The First Step of a Long March: Dual Class Company Regulations and Its Application for the Sci-Tech and Innovation Board in China', in Lee P; Godwin A; Langford R (ed.), TECHNOLOGY AND CORPORATE LAW: HOW INNOVATION SHAPES CORPORATE ACTIVITY, Edward Elgar, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/technology-and-corporate-law-9781800377158.html
    Book Chapters | 2020
    2020, 'The Implications of Cook v. Deeks to Chinese Shareholder Protection', in Jurisprudence
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'The Role and Future of Self-Regulation in the Market for Corporate Control', in Lee J (ed.), Takeovers in EU and China: State Interests, Market Players, and Governance Mechanism, Springer, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72345-3_4
    Book Chapters | 2007
    2007, 'Survey and Analysis on the History of Corporate Crime Culpability and the Theory of Piercing the Corporate Veil', in THE STUDY ON NEW ISSUES OF LAW SCIENCE, Peking University Press
    Book Chapters | 2006
    2006, 'Anatomy of the Double Control Theory in Economic Crime', in THE STUDY ON NEW ISSUES OF LAW SCIENCE 2006, Peking University Press
    Book Chapters | 2005
    2005, 'Anatomy of Business Embezzlement', in THE STUDY ON NEW ISSUES OF LAW SCIENCE 2005, Peking University Press
  • Edited Books | 2023
    Fan K; Weng X, (ed.), 2023, COVID-19 and International Business and Economic Law: China and a Changing World, Academy Publishing (the Singapore Academy of Law), Singapore
  • Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'A Promising Path or a Dead End? Director’s Duty of Care in China', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 45, https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/a-promising-path-or-dead-end-a-directors-duty-of-care-in-china
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Dancing in Chains: Reassessing China's Foreign Investment Legislations (Part I)', Hong Kong Law Journal, 52, https://web.law.hku.hk/hklj/2022-Vol-52.php#part1
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Dancing in Chains: Reassessing China's Foreign Investment Legislations (Part II)', Hong Kong Law Journal, 52, https://web.law.hku.hk/hklj/2022-Vol-52.php
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Every Sunset is an Opportunity to Reset: An Analysis of Dual-Class Share Regulations and Sunset Clauses', Journal of Corporate Law Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2022.2067023
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Regulating Weighted Voting Rights in Asia: Pragmatism or a Race to the Bottom?', Hong Kong Law Journal, 52, https://web.law.hku.hk/hklj/2022-Vol-52.php#part1
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'The Duty of Loyalty of Company Directors in China: Tracing its Origins and Plugging the Gaps', University of Western Australia Law Review, 49, https://www.able.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/3678470/The-Duty-of-Loyalty-of-Company-Directors-in-China.pdf
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Analysis of the Path Choices of Judicial Self-constraint Mechanism on Business Judgement', Journal of Political Science and Law, 4, pp. 57 - 68, http://xbbjb.sdupsl.edu.cn/info/1012/1481.htm
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Analysis on Time-based Dual Class Sunset rule in China', Nanjing University Law Review, pp. 1 - 18, http://www.pkulaw.cn/fulltext_form.aspx?Db=qikan&Gid=f46dab0c59a316684839a14bcb72f66abdfb&keyword=&EncodingName=&Search_Mode=&Search_IsTitle=0
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Crossing the Rubicon? The Implications of RCEP on Anti-monopoly Enforcement on Dominant E-commerce Platforms in China', Computer Law and Security Review: the International Journal of Technology Law and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2021.105608
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Old Wine in a New Bottle? Assessing the injunction Remedies for Intellectual Property Disputes in China', Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, 3, pp. 295 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/qmjip.2021.03.02
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Panacea or Wisdom Tooth? Assessing the Misconstrued Mandatory Bid Rule', European Business Organization Law Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40804-021-00216-0
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Remedies for Shareholder under Oppression: Shareholder’s Fiduciary Duties or Oppression Remedies', Journal of Comparative Law, 4, pp. 187 - 200, https://bjfy.cbpt.cnki.net/WKC/WebPublication/paperDigest.aspx?paperID=3f1a49a3-b1e8-4b45-995c-35b1b79b4319
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'The Implications of the US-China Trade Agreement on the Civil Protection of Trade Secrets in China: Is it a Game-Changer?', Asia Pacific Law Review, 28, pp. 316 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10192557.2021.1899886
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'The Standard of Duty of Care in China', Law and Economy, 6, pp. 48 - 66, http://cjfx.cufe.edu.cn/info/1208/2294.htm
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Lifting the Veil of Time: Piercing the Corporate Veil Empirical Study and Its Implication to Legislation', Soochow University Law Review, 32, pp. 85 - 122, https://www.lawbank.com.tw/treatise/pl_article.aspx?AID=P000247937
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Enforcement of Corporate and Securities Law: China and the World', ASIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, 6, pp. 428 - 434, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2019.20
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'States of Bankruptcy', Tsinghua Financial Law Review, 2, pp. 120 - 146, https://wemp.app/posts/cee6e574-8d34-46c8-9e02-f7432e030db4
    Journal articles | 2018
    Weng X, 2018, 'Do Auctions Matter? Assessing the Chinese Auction Promotion Institution of Takeover Law', Tsinghua China Law Review, 10, http://www.tsinghuachinalawreview.org/articles/1001_WENG.htm
    Journal articles | 2017
    Babie P; Orth J; Weng X, 2017, 'The Honoré-Waldron Thesis: A Comparison of the Blend of Ideal-Typic Categories of Property in American, Australian and Chinese Land Law', Tulane Law Review, 91, pp. 739 - 788, http://www.tulanelawreview.org/91-4-babieetal/
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Inside or Outside the Corporate Law Box? Shareholder Primacy and Corporate Social Responsibility in China', European Business Organization Law Review, 18, pp. 155 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40804-017-0063-5
    Journal articles | 2016
    Weng X; Watters C, 2016, 'Does the Housing Market and Absence of Consumer Bankruptcy Protection Make Interpretation (III) of the Chinese Marriage Law Beneficial to Women, Not Men?', Property Law Journal, 3, pp. 101 - 122, https://research.bond.edu.au/en/publications/does-the-housing-market-and-absence-of-consumer-bankruptcy-protec
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Insider Trading Case Studies: Principles, Efficacies and Corrections', Peking University Law and Finance Review, 1, pp. 60 - 85, https://www.ilawpress.com/article/detail/312330691780018697
    Journal articles | 2015
    Weng CX C; Jia J, 2015, 'Assessing the administrative sanctions regime for insider trading in China: An empirical approach', Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 10, pp. 343 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2015.18
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'An Empirical Study of Public Company Contracts on Attorney fees', International Business Law Review, 1, pp. 61 - 103
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Chinese Corporate Balkanization: the Reality of Political Economy and Competition for Corporate Charters as a Replacement', Hong Kong Law Journal, 44, pp. 247 - 262, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2409035
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Who is an Insider? A Case Study on Chinese Insider Trading Enforcement Principle', Asia Pacific Law Review, 22, pp. 85 - 101, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10192557.2014.11745917
    Journal articles | 2014
    2014, 'Chinese unbridled incorporation competition: The reality of political economy and competition for corporate charters as a replacement', Hong Kong Law Journal, 44, pp. 247 - 276
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Chinese Shareholder Protection and the Influence from the US Law: The Idiosyncratic Economic Realities and Mismatched Agency Problem Solutions', Securities Regulation Law Journal, 40, pp. 1 - 36, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2038545
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Regulating in the Dark', KoGuan Law Review, 3, pp. 10 - 28
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Value of Credibility', Prosecutorial View, 17, pp. 6 - 17
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Chinese Shareholder Protection and the Influence of the US Law: the Idiosyncratic Economic Realities and Mismatched Agency Problem Solutions', SECURITIES REGULATION LAW JOURNAL, 40, pp. 401 - 422, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000312421900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Lifting the Veil of Words: An Analysis of the Efficacy of Chinese Takeover Laws and the Road to the Harmonious Society', Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 25, https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/colas25&div=10&id=&page=
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Introductions and Suggestions to the Chinese Securities Credit Rating System from a Comparative Perspective', The University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, 6, pp. 217 - 241, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/ealr/vol6/iss2/3/
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Paths to the Reform of Chinese Credit Rating System', Financial Law Review, 2, pp. 193 - 214, http://www.oaj.pku.edu.cn/jrfy/CN/volumn/volumn_4243.shtml#1
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'The Implications of American Takeover Rules from Chinese Takeover Legislation Perspective', Review of Judicial Frontier, 2, pp. 151 - 160
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'To Be, Rather Than to Seem: Analysis of Trustee Fiduciary Duty in Reorganization and Its Implications on the New Chinese Bankruptcy Law', The International Lawyer, 45, pp. 647 - 671, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/To-Be%2C-Rather-Than-to-Seem%3A-Analysis-of-Trustee-in-Weng/a0cbb0f0b9dae94efdc8cec95803e945642f4edc
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'Angel or Demon: The Role of Hedge Funds Activism in Chinese Corporate Governance and Its future', Securities Law Review, 2, pp. 160 - 172, http://222.73.229.72/cs/zhs/yjcb/zqfy/zqfy_ml20101209a.pdf
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'Assessing the Applicability of the Business Judgment Rule and ‘Defensive’ Business Judgment Rule in the Chinese Judiciary: A Perspective on Takeover Case Adjudications', Fordham international law journal, 34, pp. 124 - 147, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2284&context=ilj
    Journal articles | 2010
    2010, 'Decision Facing Challenges: Comments on the New Financial Deal of the American Financial Crises and the Inspirations to China', The Herald of Rule of Law on Finance, 2, pp. 100 - 114
    Journal articles | 2008
    2008, 'The Survey of American Independent directors’ Compensation Development and Its Inspirations to Chinese Legislation', Journal of East China University of Politics and Law, 74, pp. 166 - 177
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'An Analysis of the Unbreakable Debt Theory', Journal of Taiyuan Normal University, 6, pp. 48 - 60
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'Anatomy of Culpability of Single Owner Company', Journal of Shanghai Normal University, 35, pp. 33 - 38
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'The rethink of Death Penalty Abolishment: A Legal History Perspective', Jiangnan Forum, pp. 26 - 38
  • Working Papers | 2020
    2020, Every sunset is an opportunity to reset: an analysis on sunset rule on dual class share regulation, http://dx.doi.org
    Working Papers | 2020
    2020, Minority Shareholder Protection and Establishing Oppression Remedies in Taiwan, http://dx.doi.org, https://www.lawbank.com.tw/treatise/pl_article.aspx?AID=P000247937
  • Conference Papers | 2023
    2023, 'Corporate Social Responsibility and International Tax Governance', Melbourne, presented at Society of Corporate Law Academics (ScoLA) 2023 Annual Conference, Melbourne, 05 February 2023
    Conference Papers | 2023
    2023, 'Tax with Corporate Social Responsibility?”', Brisbane, presented at Australasian Tax Teachers Association (ATTA) 34th Annual Conference, Brisbane, 19 January 2023