Dr Pangyue Cheng
Global Academic Fellow
PhD, National University of Singapore
LLM, National University of Singapore
LLB, Beijing Normal University
Biography
Dr. Pangyue Cheng is a legal scholar specialising in comparative company law, financial regulation, and AI governance. Her research focuses on the comparative study of corporate and regulatory institutions across different legal and economic systems.
Her first monograph, Institutional Investors and Stewardship in China, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. The book analyses the evolving roles of institutional investors in China’s capital markets and explains how distinct stewardship practices operate within concentrated ownership structures, offering broader insights into corporate governance in institutional contexts. Her work on comparative corporate governance and law and technology has been published in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including Columbia Business Law Review, Law, Innovation and Technology, The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, and Asian Journal of Comparative Law.
Pangyue has taught courses in Company Law, Securities Regulation, and Business Law. She is a Research Fellow at the Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law and the Law & Technology Centre. Her previous research was supported by a full grant from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, and she has also worked on several projects at the National University of Singapore. Before entering academia, Pangyue practised law in mainland China and served as legal counsel to a publicly listed AI company.
Publications
Monograph
Institutional Investors and Stewardship in China (under contract, Cambridge University Press)
Journal Articles
“Why Veil-Piercing Differs: Reassessing Judicial Trends under China’s New Company Law” The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
“Beyond Compliance: Insider Control and the Limits of ESG Reform in East Asia” Asian Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
“Unpacking the State-Private Nexus in China’s AI Development” Law, Innovation and Technology (with Ernest Lim, forthcoming)
“Regulating the ‘AI Leviathan’: A Framework for AI Surveillance Disclosure Reporting” (2024) 35 (6) European Business Law Review 825-850.
“Institutional Investors in China: Problems and Prospects” (2023) 2022(2) Columbia Business Law Review 664-731.
“Decoding the Rise of Central Bank Digital Currency in China: Designs, Problems, and Prospects” (2023) 24(2) Journal of Banking Regulation 156-170.