Prof. Ying Xia 夏穎教授
助理教授
Director of Philip K.H. Wong Centre for Chinese Law
簡介
夏颖自2020年起在法学院担任助理教授。她先后在北京大学取得法学学士（LL.B.）、经济学学士（双学位）及法学硕士（LL.M.）学位，并在 哈佛法学院获得法学博士（S.J.D.）学位。她的博士论文以在肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的田野调查为基础，研究中国“一带一路”投资的社会法律影响。作为一名法社会学学者，她通过经验研究方法探讨与可持续发展相关的问题。她的研究有两个主要方向：一是中国的环境治理改革，二是中国与发展中国家的经济发展合作及其环境影响。夏颖教授的研究发表在 Law & Society Review、Law & Social Inquiry、Transnational Environmental Law、World Development、China Quarterly 和 Journal of Contemporary Asia 等期刊。她还曾获得香港研究资助局（RGC）资助，就环境法律动员与公益法律服务等议题开展研究。
Publications
Strategic Anthropocentrism: Framing Animal Protection in China’s Public Interest Litigation,” (2026) Journal of Environmental Law (forthcoming)
“Guerrilla Lawyering: Mobile Resistance in China’s Public Interest Litigation” (2025) Law & Society Review.
“Environmental Advocacy in a Globalizing China: NGOs’ Engagement with the Green Belt and Road Initiative” (2024) 54(4) Journal of Contemporary Asia 667-689.
“State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice” (2024) 49(1) Law & Social Inquiry 451-477 (corresponding author; with Yueduan Wang).
“An Unlikely Duet: Public-Private Interaction in China’s Environmental Public Interest Litigation” (2023) 12(2) Transnational Environmental Law 396-423 (first author; with Yueduan Wang)
“Quarantined Judicial Expansion: The Environmental Legal Entrepreneurship of Chinese Courts, Procuratorates, and NGOs” (2023) 45(2) Law & Policy 159-180 (corresponding author; with Yueduan Wang)
“The Janus Face of Stateness: China’s Development-Oriented Equity Investments in Africa” (2022) 162 World Development 106133 (first author; with Muyang Chen)
“Judicializing Environmental Politics? China’s Prosecutor-led Public Interest Litigation Against Government” (2022) 253 China Quarterly 90-106 (corresponding author; with Yueduan Wang)
“Chinese Investment in East Africa: History, Status, and Impacts” (2021) 19 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 269-293
“What Kinds of Chinese “Geese” Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms” (2018) 27(1) Journal of African Economies 29-51 (last author; with Deborah Brautigam & Xiaoyang Tang).
“China’s Environmental Campaign: How China’s War against Pollution Is Transforming the International Trade in Waste” (2019) 51(3) N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics 1101-1178