Prof. Hui (Jeremy) JING 景輝教授
Associate Professor
Programme Director, Master of Laws in Chinese Law
PhD (Melbourne Law School)
MPhil (Peking)
LLB (China University of Political Science and Law)
Biography
Dr Hui Jing is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He specialises in equity and trusts, contract, property, and charity law, both in his teaching and research. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, where his doctoral thesis was awarded the Melbourne Law School Harold Luntz Graduate Research Prize for Best PhD Thesis. His earlier qualifications include a research master’s degree in intellectual property law from Peking University and an LLB from the China University of Political Science and Law, from which he graduated in the top 5% of his class.
Professor Jing has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. His work appears in Legal Studies, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Journal of Equity, Civil Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Business Law, the European Business Organisation Law Review, and the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer. He has also contributed chapters to several edited collections.
Before embarking on his academic career, he practised law from 2014 to 2017, working at the Beijing office of Zhong Lun Law Firm and at the China National Foreign Trade Financial & Leasing Company.
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
‘Settlor Control in Family Trusts’ (2025) 89 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 144-162
‘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
‘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
‘Conceptualising the Chinese Charitable Trust’ (2022) 16 Journal of Equity 28-55
‘Enforcing Charitable Trusts: A Study on the English Necessary Interest Rule’ (2022) 42 Legal Studies 228-245
‘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)
Book Chapter
‘The Dominance of Regulatory Oversight in Chinese Investment Trusts’ in Ying Khai Liew and Masayuki Tamaruya (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Boundaries in Context (Hart, 2025) 159-176 (with Lusina Ho)
‘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
University 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