Dr Ding Chen

School of Law

Senior Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law

Ding.Chen@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6734

Bartolomé House

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Dr Ding Chen
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND

Profile

I joined the Sheffield Law School in September 2015. Previously, I worked as a lecturer in Newcastle Law school from January 2013 after completing Ph.D in Manchester Law School. I also lectured in China Euro School of Law (CESL) from January 2014. Before moving into academic, I worked as a public prosecutor in Guangdong Province, P.R.China.

I worked on the ESRC-funded project of 'Law, development and finance in Rising Powers' as a research associate at Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University between 2013-2016. Recently, I started another ESRC-funded project on 'Informal Finance In China, Risks Potential and Transformation' from 1 February, 2017 as Co-investigator and PI in Sheffield.

Qualifications

PhD University Of Manchester
LLM University of Sheffield
LLM Renmin University
LLB Zhengzhou University

Research interests

Law and Development
Corporate Governance
Company Law
Financial Regulation
New Institutional Economics

Member of Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law.

Areas of Research Supervision

Law and development
Corporate governance
Financial regulation

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

‘Fintech in China-based on fieldwork’ presented at Sino-Britian conference ‘Macro Financial Stability’ organized by ESRC LSE, and CASS, 25-7th March 2018, Beijng
‘Why is China’s SOEs Reform Always Disappointing’, at SIOE 2018 annual conference, Montreal, 25-7June, 2018
‘Growing pains: the changing of regulation of alternative lending platforms’ at a conference of ‘Financial Inclusion and Fintech’ in London (SOAS) being held from 25-26th March 2019
‘When Formal market meets informal, the Wenzhou Case’ in a workshop of
Law, Finance and Development with Chinese Characteristics, on 25th June, 2019.
‘The Future of China’s P2P’ at conference of ‘Fintech and Shadow Banking’ , 27-9th November, 2019, Edinburgh
Mission Impossible, IPO reform in China, Invited paper, 5th Annual Asian Law and Economics Conference, Chair of Corporate Law Session, 22nd June 2016
Law, Trust and Institutional Changes in China, invited talk, SOAS, 12 March 2016,
Corporate Governance in China, its Past, Present and Future Challenges, Leeds Law School, 5th March 2016
Law and economic growth-based on empirical evidence from China, invited talk, Economic law frontier series, 20 Oct 2015, Renmin Law School
Different Legal Institutions for different economic settings: evidence from interviews in China, invited talk, Law and Society Annual Meeting 2015, 28 May, Seattle
Different Legal Institutions for different economic settings: evidence from interviews in China, invited talk,5th Law and Development Annual Conference, 17th April 2015 ,Tulane University, New Orleans,
Law and economic development, invited lecture, 9th April 2015 Fuzhou University

Publications

Books

Ding C (2013) Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development The Chinese Experience. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Journal articles

Chen D, Deakin S, Johnston A & Wang B (2022) Too much technology and too little regulation? The spectacular demise of P2P lending in China. Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium.
Chen D & Deakin S (2020) When formal finance meets the informal: the case of Wenzhou. Journal of Banking Regulation.
Ding C, Kavuri AS & Milne A (2020) PS14 Lessons from the rise and fall of Chinese peer-to-peer lending. Journal of Banking Regulation.
Chen D, Kavuri AS & Milne A (2020) The Future of Peer-to-Peer Lending in China.
Chen D (2019) Contract Law and Economic Reform. in ‘Contract law and the Legislature: Autonomy, Expecations, and the Makig of the Legal Doctrin'.
Chen D (2018) Why is China's SOEs reform always disappointing? - A new political economic explanation. Journal of Comparative Law, 13(2), 120-146. View this article in WRRO
Chen D, Deakin S, Siems M & Wang B (2017) Law, trust and institutional change in China: evidence from qualitative fieldwork. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 17(2), 257-290. View this article in WRRO
Chen D & Deakin S (2015) On Heaven’s Lathe: State, Rule of Law, and Economic Development. Law and Development Review, 8(1), 123-145. View this article in WRRO
Chen D (2013) Developing a Stock Market without Institutions—The China Puzzle. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 13(1), 151-184.
Chen D (2012) Legal Tradition and Private Securities Litigation in China. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 11(23), 394-400.
Samanta N, Chen D & Hughes J () Does regulation matter? Changes in corporate governance in China and its impact on financial market growth : an empirical analysis (1995-2014). Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society. View this article in WRRO

Chapters

Chen D, Kavuri AS & Milne A (2020) Growing Pains: The Changing Regulation of Alternative Lending Platforms
Chen D (2019) The Clash of Capitalisms? Chinese Companies in the United States. By Ji Li. [Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 227 pp. Hardback £69.99. ISBN 978-11-07157-15-6.] (pp. 447-449). Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Chen D () Contract Law and Economic Reform View this article in WRRO

Grants

Title/Description: Informal Finance in China: Risks, Potential and Transformation

Awarding Body: ESRC
People involved: Professor Simon Deakin, Professor Andrew Johnston, Dr Navajyoti Samanta
Dates: 01/02/2017 - 01/02/2019
Amount: £392,014

Title/Description: Law, development and finance in rising powers

Awarding Body: ESRC
People involved: Professor Simon Deakin, Mathias Siems
Dates: March 2013
Amount: £520, 525.32

Teaching interests

I believe higher education is not simply to equip students with specific knowledge, more importantly it should prepare students with the capability of thinking independently, critically and to appreciate the complexity of the reality.

My aim is to create a comfortable environment of learning, in which students will feel confident in expressing their ideas and making mistakes.

Teaching activities

Undergraduate

Private Aspect of Company Law

Postgraduate

Introduction to Company Law and Corporate Governance
Current Issues in Company Law and Corporate Governance
Comparative Corporate Governance
Law and Development

Professional activities and memberships

Expert consultant for China-Britain Business Council (CBCC)
Research associate of the Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge
Research Associate of the Bankruptcy Law Centre, Renmin University, School of Law
Qualified Lawyer, Chinese Bar
Expert Consultant of The Great Britain-China Centre (The GBCC)
External Examiner of SOAS
External Examiner of Aberdeen Law School
External reviewer for Law and Development Review, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, International Journal of Law in Context, Edward Elgar Publisher and so on