Prof. Hui JING 景輝教授
Assistant Professor
Director of Master of Laws in Chinese Law Programme
PhD (Melbourne Law School)
MPhil (Peking)
LLB (China University of Political Science and Law)
Biography
Dr Jing Hui is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, University of Hong Kong. He previously worked at CityU Law School from August 2020 to June 2022. Jing completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, where his doctoral thesis was awarded the Melbourne Law School Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize for Best PhD Thesis. Prior to his PhD, Jing obtained his master’s degree (by research) in intellectual property law from Peking University and his LLB from China University of Political Science and Law, graduating in the top 5% of his class.
Jing teaches and conducts research in equity and trust, contract, property, and charity law. He has published in journals including Legal Studies, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Journal of Equity, and he has contributed chapters to several edited collections. Before embarking on an academic career, Jing worked at the China National Foreign Trade Financial & Leasing Company and at the Beijing Office of Zhong Lun Law Firm from 2014 to 2017.
Selected Publications
Selected Awards and Honours
Book
The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts (Cambridge University Press, 2023) (Reviewed by Mark Sidel in The China Quarterly: [link])
Journal Article
‘The Concept of Beneficial Ownership in Express Trust: A Necessity?’ (2025) 18 Journal of Equity 131-164
‘Knowing Receipt in Chinese Trust Law’ (2025) 18 Journal of Equity 216-245 (with Siyi Lin)
‘Liability for the Misapplication of Trust Fund in the Post-AIB Era’ (2024) 6 Journal of Business Law 463-486
‘Regulating Donation-Based Crowdfunding Platforms in Hong Kong: A Trust Law Framework’ (2024) 53(3) Common Law World Review 132-152
‘The Accountability of Non-Charitable Donation-Based Crowdfunding Platforms in China’ (2024) 54 Hong Kong Law Journal 231-252 (with Dejian Li)
‘Third-Party and Bankruptcy Effects under Chinese Trust Law: Comparisons with English Trust Law’ (2024) 19 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 216-232
‘Trust Law in Macao: An Organizational Law Account’ (2024) 25 European Business Organization Law Review 625-653
‘Registration of Chinese Trusts: Lessons from English Trust Law’ (2023) 3 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 267-287 (with Siyi Lin)
‘The Autonomy-Based Account of Chinese Trust Laws’ (2023) 71(3) American Journal of Comparative Law 618-656
‘The Remedial Constructive Trust Approach in the Hong Kong Law of Proprietary Estoppel’ (2023) 1 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 30-50
‘Political Influence in the Regulation of Chinese Charitable Trusts’ (2023) 38(1) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 46-66
‘Conceptualising the Chinese Charitable Trust’ (2022) 16 Journal of Equity 28-55
‘Risk Allocation: The Contractual Practice of Chinese Charitable Trusts’ (2022) 10 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 1-28
‘The Autonomy of Charities in China’ (2022) 52(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 321-347
‘Enforcing Charitable Trusts: A Study on the English Necessary Interest Rule’ (2022) 42 Legal Studies 228-245
‘Beneficiaries under the Chinese Charitable Trust’ (2022) 16 Journal of Equity 174-198
‘Bringing Proceedings Against Trustees of Australian Charitable Trusts: The Standing of Objects’ (2021) 27(2) Third Sector Review 35-51
‘The Transplantation of Quistclose Trusts in China: Legal Difficulties and Normative Uncertainty’ (2021) 15 Journal of Equity 153-180 (with Siyi Lin)
‘The Governance of Charities in China’ (2021) 16 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 356-372
‘The Duty of Loyalty in Chinese Trust Laws’ (2020) 13 Journal of Equity 347-372
Shorter Article and Case Comment
‘Causation in Equitable Compensation: But For Test without Novus Actus Interveniens?’ (2024) 88(1) Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 31-39 (with Connie Xiao)
‘Proprietary Estoppel Remedies in Hong Kong’ (2022) 52 Hong Kong Law Journal 789-798
Book Chapter
‘Intention in the Creation of Chinese Inter Vivos Express Trusts’ in Ying Khai Liew and Ying-Chieh Wu (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Adaptation in Context (Hart, 2022) 349-369
‘The Legal Nature of the Chinese Charitable Trust’ in Matthew Harding and Ying Khai Liew (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Theory and Practice in Context (Hart, 2021) 271-289
Research Output Prize, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 2024
Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, 2021
Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize for Best PhD Thesis, Melbourne Law School, 2020
Award for Academic Research, University of Melbourne, 2018
Australian Government Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, 2017-2020
Award for Advanced and Knowledge Employees, China Orient Asset Management Company, 2016
Award for Advanced Employees, China National Foreign Trade Financial and Leasing Company, 2015
Award for Innovation in Academic Performance, Peking University, 2013
Academic Scholarship, Peking University, 2012
Scholarship for Academic Excellence, China University of Political Science and Law, 2009, 2010 & 2011