Peter A Allard School of Law

Liwen Lin

Associate Professor
LL.M, S.J.D. (University of Illinois), MA, MPhil, PhD (Columbia University)

Profile

Professor Liwen Lin is an Associate Professor at the Allard School of Law. Her research and teaching interests include comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, state capitalism, Chinese law, and law and economic sociology.

She has written extensively on various legal innovations in corporate social responsibility (CSR), including vendor conduct codes in global supply chains, sustainability reporting, and mandatory CSR legislation worldwide. Her work also focuses on the governance of China’s state-owned enterprises, specifically their ownership structure, personnel management, and executive compensation. Additionally, her research extends to legal institutions that support start-up companies. Currently, she is working on a series of projects exploring global legal innovations in CSR.

Professor Lin’s research work has been published in a wide range of law and interdisciplinary journals, including American Journal of Comparative Law, The China Quarterly, Stanford Law Review, The World Trade Review, Columbia Business Law Review, Berkeley Journal of International Law, University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, among others.

Her research has been profiled in The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. She has been an invited guest speaker in media such as Radio Free Asia. Prior to entering academia, Professor Lin was a consultant at a Forbes Global 2000 company.

Professor Lin holds LLM and JSD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a PhD degree in Sociology from Columbia University, where she was appointed as a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow.

Research and Publications

 To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my publications on the following sites: 

Courses

  • Business Organizations
  • Law and Empirical Evidence
  • LLM Seminar
  • Comparative Corporate Governance

Publications

View Professor Lin's publications listed on the Allard Research Portal.

View Professor Lin's publications listed on SSRN.

Liwen Profile

Organization Affiliations

  • Centre for Asian Legal Studies
  • Centre for Business Law

Research Interests

  • Business, corporate and commercial law
  • Comparative law
  • Legal methodology and interdisciplinary approaches

How can corporate law make companies socially and environmentally responsible?


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