Ruoying Chen

Ruoying joined the ANU College of Law in Febrary 2023.  She conducts research on the intersection of regulatory theories/practice and private law, with both doctrinal methdologies and law and economics, especially the financial markets and enviroment markets, e.g. public financing and sovereigh debts.  She focuses on market-oriented and decentralized initiatives as an alternative or supplement to tradtional/centralized tools and remedies, drawing examples mainly from China, where she's a faculty member of the Peking University Law School for over 10 years. 

Ruoying currently teaches first year compulsory Contracts (LLB/JD) and an elective course on finacial markets regulation and takeovers law (LLB/JD/Masters).  

Past appointments: 

• Associate Professor & Assistant Professor, PKU Law School, Peking University
• Global Law Professor & the 2019 Dieter Heremans Lecturer in Law & Economics, KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
• Dean's Research Fellow & Senior Lecturer, UNSW Business School
• Visitng Associate Professor & Visiting Assistant Professor, Lecturer & John.M.Olin Fellow in Law & Economics, the University of Chicago Law School
• Program Affiliate Scholar, the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU Law School 
• Associate & Legal Consultant, Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer, Beijing & Hong Kong office 

Before switching to an academic career, she worked for international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (now Freshfields) in its Beijing and Hong Kong offices for over five years on cross-border M&As, capital market work and restructuring of the banking and telecom industries in China.

Education:  

• J.S.D. from the University of Chicago (John. M. Olin Fellow & Scholar)
• M.Juris from the University of Oxford (Chevening Scholar & Shell Centenary Scholar)
• BA in Law from Peking University