Dr Alex Zhicheng Huang

Dr Alex Zhicheng Huang

Global Academic Fellow

LL.B (Sun Yat-sen University)
LL.M (University of California, Berkeley)
J.S.D (University of California, Berkeley)

Biography

Alex Huang’s research focuses on bankruptcy law, corporate law, judicial behavior, and the application of economics and data science to legal questions. His current projects involve the use of network analysis and natural language processing to examine a large number of judicial opinions related to Chapter 11 reorganization. He explores computational doctrinal analysis to examines the content of law—legal reasoning and justification—in an empirical way. Computational doctrinal analysis sets itself apart from both the outcome-oriented empirical legal studies and the case study-driven doctrinal analysis. Additionally, he is interested in the role of courts, judicial performance evaluation, and public trust in the judiciary, particularly the impacts of new technologies like artificial intelligence on these fields.

His writings have appeared in both peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the American Business Law Journal, the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, and Research in Institutional Economics, and he has contributed chapters to several books. His research has been featured in various media outlets and academic blogs, including the Financial Times, The Deal, Reorg, the Oxford Business Law Blog, the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable, and the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative blog. He has received several research awards, including the Gold Medal for the III Prize in International Insolvency Studies, the Best Paper Award at the Annual Law and Economics Conference in China, and the Most Innovative Presentation Award at the INSOL ERA Annual Workshop.

Alex Huang holds a JSD and LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was named to the Dean’s List. He was also a Lloyd M. Robbins Fellow at the Berkeley School of Law and a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellow at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society. He earned his Bachelor of Laws from Sun Yat-sen University, where he received the China National Scholarship.

Before teaching Cross-border Insolvency Law at HKU Law, he taught Law and Economics I & II, Sociology of Law, Law in Chinese Society, and Fundamentals of U.S. Law as a lecturer and graduate student instructor in the legal studies program and the law school at UC Berkeley.

Huang is also a Research Associate at the Sun Yat-sen University Law and Economics Research Center, where he serves as a co-investigator for a key project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China.