member of Oregon and New York State Bar Association; Hauser Global Senior Fellow of New York University School of Law, visiting scholar at University of Ghant (Belgium), University of Michigan, Harvard Law School, and University of California at Irvine, visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University, Tulane University, St. John’s University, East Finland University, and Lapland University, offering courses to US JD/LLM students and European law students of Comparative Trust Law, International Business Transactions, and Chinese Business Law; public lecturer invited by Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, Cornell Law School, Columbia Law School, Tulane Law School, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioner (STEP), and New York Bar Association, topics covering comparative trust law and Chinese business law.
Education
J.D. (Willamette, US), M.C.L. (National University of Singapore), LL.B. (East China University of Political Science & Law)
Selected Publications
Books
1.Restatement of Chinese Trust Law (Fudan University Press 2024)
2.Common Law of Contracts and Torts (3rd Ed., Fudan University Press 2024)
3.Chinese Civil Law: Statutes, Cases, and Materials (Fudan University Press 2023)
4.Common Law Trial Practice and Judicial Reasoning (Fudan University Press 2023)
5.Trust Law – A Misunderstood System (2nd Ed., Fudan University Press 2021)
6.The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Revisited (Publishing House of China Democracy and Law 2021)
7.Understanding the Common Law – Analyzing & Writing as a Lawyer (Fudan University Press 2019)
8.Chinese Business Law, Volume 2 of Series on Contemporary Chinese Law (co-author) (Thomson West 2008)
Articles in English:
9.Observing Chinese Clients (co-author), STEP Hong Kong Branch Newsletter (Jan. 2020)
10.The Interpretation of Legal Language – Taking the US Supreme Court Cases as Examples, International Journal of Language, Culture & Law (Vol. 1, 2019)
11.Who Owns the Mirage? – Comments on a Recent Chinese Securitization Case from A Comparative Perspective, Global Business Law Review (Vol. 4 Issue 2, 2015)
12.Flexibility in Assignment of Contractual Rights: Assignment of Account Receivables (as part of the project “Contractual Flexibility”, 2 Lapland Law Review (2015)
13.Comments on the Chinese Law of Conflict of Laws Applicable to Trusts: In Comparison with the US Law and the Hague Convention, vol. 7, Issue 3, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 483 (2014) (by Springer)
14.The Development of Private Trusts in Mainland China – Legal Obstacles and Solutions, 4 Trusts and Trustees 350 (by Oxford Journals) (May 2014)
15.The Necessity and Feasibility of Developing Private Trusts in China, Fudan Journal of Social Sciences 154 (Vol. 4 No. 4, 2007)
16.A Comparative Study on the Duty of Care under Chinese Tort Law: With a Few Proposals to the Legislature, Fudan Journal of Social Sciences 29 (Vol. 4 No. 2, 2007)
17.Chinese Legal Education System: Yes and No, 9 Zeitschrift fur Chinesisches Recht 261-269 (Journal of Chinese Law) (2006)
18.What Makes A Lawyer in China? The Chinese Legal Education System After China’s Entry Into the WTO, 10 Willamette J. Int’l L. & Dispute Res. 197 (2002)
Articles in Chinese:
19.Issue of Choice of Law Governing Family Trusts, Journal of SUIBE (vol. 29, issue 3, 2022)
20.The Book of Succession Law of the Civil Code – from the Perspective of Trust Law, Shanghai Legal Studies (vol. 11, 2020), reprinted in Contemporary Financial Law Studies (vol. 4, China Legal Publishing House 2023)
21.An Analysis on the Legality of Trusts of Right to Income (Proceeds) – with Comments on the First Trust Case Litigated in China, Legal Science (vol. 8, 2015)
22.Prevention of Corruption: Integration of Asset Declaration and Compulsive Blind Trusts Systems – A Case Study of the Practices Adopted in the United States and in Taiwan District, Anti-Corruption and Integrity Culture Studies 66 (vol. 2, 2015)
23.Legal Issues on Private Equity Investment Funds in China, Hebei Law Science (vol. 27, 2009)
24.Legal Issues on Trust Registration in China (co-author), Research on Governmental Law Systems (vol. 1. 2009)
25.A Comparative Study on the Compensatory Damages under the Legal Framework of Chinese Civil Legal Remedies, Journal of East China University of Politics & Law (vol. 5, 2007)
26.Legal Analysis on the Phenomenon of “Victims of a Same Tort Receiving Different Amounts of Compensation”, Nanjing University Law Review (Fall Issue, 2006)
Email:lygao@fudan.edu.cn
