Prof. Ying Xia 夏穎教授

Assistant Professor

Biography

Ying is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law since 2020. She holds an LL.B., B.S. in Economics (dual degree), and LL.M. from Peking University and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her dissertation drew on fieldwork in Kenya and Tanzania to study the socio-legal impacts of Chinese Belt-and-Road investment. As a socio-legal scholar, she investigates sustainability questions through empirical methods, developing two lines of research: environmental governance reforms in China, and the sustainability implications of China’s economic engagements in developing countries. Her work appears in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Transnational Environmental Law, World Development, China Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary Asia. She has received Hong Kong RGC funding for projects on environmental legal mobilization and public interest lawyering.

Publications