The submission deadline for the 2026 AsLEA Annual Conference has been extended to 15 March 2026.
This year’s conference will feature Professor Eric Talley (Columbia University) as the Keynote Speaker, as well as dedicated Asian, U.S., and European panels with leading scholars in law and economics.
Confirmed panelists include: Asian Panel—Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin (AsLEA President, City University of Hong Kong), Professor Gen Goto (University of Tokyo), Assistant Professor Kenneth Khoo (National University of Singapore); European Panel—Professor Wolf-Georg Ringe (University of Hamburg), Professor Geneviève Helleringer (University of Oxford), Professor Mireia Giné (IESE Business School); U.S. Panel—Professor Jill E. Fisch (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Elizabeth Pollman (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Dorothy S. Lund (Columbia University)
Interested applicants are invited to submit their abstract here.
For submission guidelines and details, please refer to the updated conference poster below or visit the conference website.
The City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) are pleased to present the sixth lecture in the Lecture Series in Law and Economics.
This session will feature Professor Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law. Professor Arlen’s scholarship focuses on corporate liability, behavioral and experimental law and economics, and medical malpractice. She is the founder and faculty director of the NYU Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement. Arlen served as the president of both the American Law and Economics Association and the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (which she co-founded in 2005). A prolific scholar, Arlen has edited three books and has published in leading journals including the Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Journal of Legal Analysis, Yale Law Journal, Chicago Law Review, NYU Law Review, and the UPenn Law Review.
In this lecture, Prof. Arlen will discuss how governments can best structure corporate criminal enforcement in order to deter corporate crime by large companies. It explains why deterrence can best be achieved by ensuring that companies can never retain the profits from corporate crime, and by imposing large fines on companies that do not self-report, fully cooperate (including by turning over evidence against individual wrongdoers) and remediate. It also discusses the value of whistleblower bounties. The lecture will then compare this regime with the current structure of U.S. enforcement policy and highlight some implications for compliance.
The lecture will take place on February 12, 2026 (Thursday) at 8 pm (HKT) and will be held online via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please register here in advance.
For more details about the lecture, please refer to the poster below.
The Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) is now accepting submissions for its 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place on 9 & 10 June 2026, at Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law.
This year, we will continue with the AsLEA Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars.
We welcome submissions on any topic related to law and economics. The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026, 2359hrs SGT. For those who wish to be considered for the AsLEA Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars, a FULL PAPER is required upon submission.
Interested applicants are invited to submit their abstract here. Accepted authors will be notified by the end of March.
The City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) are pleased to present the fifth lecture in the Lecture Series in Law and Economics.
This session will feature Professor Adriana Z. Robertson, Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Robertson’s research interests lie at the intersection of law and finance, including securities law, capital markets regulation, corporate finance, and business law. She holds a BA from the University of Toronto (Trinity College), where she was awarded the Lorne T. Morgan Gold Medal in Economics, a PhD in Finance from the Yale School of Management, and a JD from Yale Law School. Using a simple model developed to characterize the magnitude and direction of bias in price drop damages, Prof. Robertson will discuss the limitations of this widely used approach in assessing harm from market misconduct, specifically how it understates harm when the expected net award to purchasers of the reference asset is positive and overstates it when net recovery is negative.
The lecture will take place on January 20, 2026 (Tuesday) at 12 pm (HKT) and will be held online via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please register here in advance.
For more details about the lecture, please refer to the poster below.
The City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) are pleased to present the fourth lecture in the Lecture Series in Law and Economics.
This session will feature Professor Yun-chien Chang, Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law at Cornell Law School and Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law & Culture. Professor Chang’s current academic interests focus on economic, empirical and comparative analysis of private law (particularly property law), as well as empirical studies of the judicial system. Using a new theory on legal knowledge diffusion, and an empirical analysis of nearly 1 million citations in 9 top law journals in China over 35 years, Prof. Chang will discuss how legal knowledge spreads.
The lecture will take place on December 22, 2025 (Monday) at 7 pm (HKT) and will be held online via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please register here in advance.
For more details about the lecture, please refer to the poster below.
The Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) successfully held its 2025 Annual Conference on 13–15 August 2025 at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). Organized in partnership with the CityUHK School of Law and the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (CCCL), the Conference reaffirmed AsLEA’s role as the premier platform in Asia for advancing interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of law and economics.
Global Gathering of Scholars
Since its founding in 1995, AsLEA has been committed to advancing the study and application of law and economics in Asia. The 2025 Annual Conference marked yet another milestone, drawing over 120 scholars from leading universities and research institutions across more than 20 jurisdictions. Over three days, participants engaged with cutting-edge issues at the intersection of law and economics, with particular attention to challenges facing Asia and beyond.
Pre-Conference Workshops
The Conference was kicked off with two pre-conference workshops designed to foster methodological reflection and editorial dialogue among younger and senior scholars.
The first workshop, Methodology Workshop, was led by Prof. Jennifer H. Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, New York University and moderated by Prof. John Zhuang Liu, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Prof. Arlen introduced research methods in experimental economics, focusing on how to maintain internal consistency and external validity.
Prof. Jennifer H. ARLEN
Prof. John Zhuang LIU
The second workshop, Editors’ Workshop, featured Prof. Adriana Z. Robertson, Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Business Law, University of Chicago Law School and Editor of Journal of Legal Studies, Prof. Yun-chien Chang, Jack G. Clarke Professor in East Asian Law, Cornell Law School and Editor of Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Prof. Wenming Xu, Professor, China University of Political Science and Law and Editor of International Review of Law & Economics, moderated by Prof. Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, President of AsLEA. This dialogue offered candid insights into the publication process and highlighted the increasing global reach of Asian scholarship in leading international journals.
Prof. Adriana Z. ROBERTSON
Prof. Yun-chien CHANG
Prof. Wenming XU
Prof. Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN
Keynote Speech
A highlight of the Conference was our keynote speeches, delivered by Prof. Adriana Z. Robertson and Prof. Yun-chien Chang on August 14 and 15, respectively.
In her keynote speech titled “Empirical Corporate Law: Challenges and Opportunities”, Prof. Robertson observed that recent replication studies have overturned once-canonical findings and posed a significant challenge to the field of empirical corporate law research. Yet, this challenge also presents new opportunities for researchers to explore new directions through empirical data. Meanwhile, Prof. Chang discussed two major concepts, collegiality among, and familiarity between judges in his keynote speech, “Familiarity and Collegiality: The Law and Economics of Judicial Behavior”. By examining millions of court judgments and promotion data, his research on the determinants of judicial decision-making extends the economic theories of judicial behaviour.
AsLEA Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars
Another key moment of the Conference was the presentation of the AsLEA Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars, established to recognize outstanding emerging scholarship. Out of 67 submissions, two outstanding contributions were honored.
Prof. Kenneth Khoo from the National University of Singapore and Prof. Roberto Tallarita from Harvard Law School, won for their co-authored paper titled “Expanding Shareholder Voice: The Impact of SEC Guidance on Environmental and Social Proposals”. They used machine learning to study how environmental and social proposals affect shareholder support, providing key insights for corporate governance.
Mr. Huabing Li, PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, the University of Bologna, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, for “Utilitarian Proportionality: Empirical Evidence from Crimes of Embezzlement and Bribery in China.” His work offers a fresh perspective on criminal policy reform through empirical study of proportionality within the utilitarian framework.
The recognition of these papers reflects AsLEA’s longstanding mission to nurture empirical and theoretical innovation by younger scholars, ensuring the vibrancy of the field for decades to come.
Prof. Virginia HARPER HO, Prof. Lauren Yu-Hsin LIN, Mr. Huabing LI, Prof. Kenneth KHOO, Prof. James Si ZENG (From left to right)
Panel Sessions and Discussions
The Conference featured 25 concurrent panels, covering a wide spectrum of themes such as judicial behavior, intellectual property, family and labor law, state power and corporate ownership, securities enforcement, and the regulation of data, privacy, and innovation and etc., demonstrating deep integration of theory and empirics and fostering two-way interaction between scholarship and practice.
Leadership and Community
The success of the 2025 Annual Conference was made possible by the leadership of Prof. Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin, President of AsLEA, together with Prof. James Si Zeng, Prof. Virginia Harper Ho, and Prof. Martin Sin Chit Lai, supported by the dedication of CityUHK’s School of Law faculty and staff. At the opening, participants were also warmly welcomed by Prof. Lin Feng, Dean and Chair Professor of Basic Law, CityUHK School of Law, and Prof. Jiangyu Wang, Director of Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (CCCL).
Prof. LIN Feng, Dean and Chair Professor of Basic Law, School of Law (left) and Prof. Jiangyu WANG, Director of CCCL (right) delivered welcoming remarks
Looking Forward
The AsLEA 2025 Annual Conference not only celebrated scholarly excellence but also reaffirmed AsLEA’s role as a hub for cross-regional dialogue and intellectual exchange. By connecting leading and emerging scholars across disciplines, AsLEA continues to strengthen the foundations of law and economics in Asia.
We are pleased to announce that the AsLEA 2026 Annual Conference will be hosted by Singapore Management University (SMU). We warmly invite colleagues around the world to join us next year in Singapore and continue building the vibrant law and economics community.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all participants, organizers, and supporters for making the Conference a resounding success.
On 28 May 2025, the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA), in collaboration with the City University of Hong Kong School of Law, had the honour of hosting Professor Kyle Rozema (Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law), for an online talk titled “How Should the Legal Profession be Regulated?” The event featured a discussion session with Professor Xiaohong Yu (Tsinghua University, Department of Political Science) and an engaging Q&A session, moderated by Professor Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin (City University of Hong Kong, School of Law).
In this talk, Professor Rozema discussed various ways in which legal professions are regulated and the impact of different regulatory approaches on the legal profession. He empirically examined the effect of the bar exam on the size and quality of the legal profession, measured by the disciplinary sanctions imposed on lawyers. Professor Rozema concluded the talk by identifying key open empirical questions for future research on the legal profession. In the discussion session, Professor Yu provided valuable commentary, highlighting the need to consider social capital and local context in legal regulation. She raised critical questions about how to accurately measure lawyer quality beyond disciplinary sanctions, such as entry barriers and jurisdictional practice restrictions. The talk attracted over a hundred registrants, including scholars, lawyers, practitioners, and law students.
The Lecture Series in Law and Economics is a collaborative initiative between the City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association. Featuring renowned scholars from around the world, the series explores the application of economic analysis to legal and policy issues, fostering dialogue and collaboration among legal and economics scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
About the speaker:
Kyle Rozema is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. His research focuses on how we should structure and regulate the legal profession, legal institutions, and law schools. He studies questions about the bar exam, lawyer discipline, judicial reform, and clerkship access, using novel data and empirical methods. Much of his work aims to estimate the causal effects of legal rules and institutional design, while also offering descriptive insights into how the legal system operates. He is also the co-author, with Adam Chilton, of Trial by Numbers: A Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence, a non-technical introduction to statistical evidence for law students and lawyers.
The City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) are pleased to present the third lecture in the Lecture Series in Law and Economics by Professor Kyle Rozema (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law) on “How Should the Legal Profession be Regulated?” In this talk, Professor Rozema will provide an overview of how legal professions are regulated by highlighting insights from recent empirical research on the effects of various regulations, with Professor Xiaohong Yu (Tsinghua University, Department of Political Science) as discussant.
The lecture will take place on May 28, 2025 (Wednesday), 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (HKT) online via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link, please kindly register here before May 26, 2025 (Monday).
The Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA) is now accepting submissions for its 2025 Annual Conference, which will take place from August 13 to 15, 2025, at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. This year marks the 20th anniversary of AsLEA, and the conference will focus on the theme “Law, Economics, and Sustainability in Asia.”
The event will host Adriana Robertson (University of Chicago Law School) and Yun-chien Chang (Cornell Law School) as keynote speakers. It will also include a pre-conference Methodology Workshop and an Editors’ Workshop on August 13, 2025. The main conference sessions will be held on August 14-15, 2025. Additionally, the conference will introduce the AsLEA Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars, recognizing outstanding research by early-career scholars.
We welcome submissions on any topic related to law and economics. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025 April 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. HKT). Interested applicants are invited to submit their abstract here. Accepted authors will be notified by the end of April.
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