Dr Pangyue Cheng 程龐悅博士
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 corporate law, financial regulation, and AI governance. Her research examines how institutional investors, technological innovation, and sustainability considerations are reshaping corporate governance and regulatory frameworks from a comparative perspective.
Her first monograph, Institutional Investors and Stewardship in China, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. The book analyses the evolving roles of different types of institutional investors in China’s capital markets and shows how their stewardship practices function within concentrated ownership structures. 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, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and Law, Innovation and Technology.
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.

Research Area
Corporate and Financial Law
Securities Law
Law and Technology
Law and Sustainability

Research Area
Corporate and Financial Law
Securities Law
Law and Technology
Law and Sustainability
Publications
Monograph
Institutional Investors and Stewardship in China (under contract, Cambridge University Press)
Journal Articles
Pangyue Cheng, “Beyond Compliance: Insider Control and the Limits of ESG Reform in East Asia.” Asian Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
Pangyue Cheng and Ernest Lim, “Unpacking the State-Private Nexus in China’s AI Development,” Law, Innovation and Technology (forthcoming)
Pangyue Cheng, “Regulating the ‘AI Leviathan’: A Framework for AI Surveillance Disclosure Reporting,” European Business Law Review, vol 35, no 6 (2024).
Pangyue Cheng, “Institutional Investors in China: Problems and Prospects,” Columbia Business Law Review, vol 2022, no 2 (2023).
Pangyue Cheng, “Decoding the Rise of Central Bank Digital Currency in China: Designs, Problems, and Prospects,” Journal of Banking Regulation, vol 24, no 2 (2023).