Weitseng 

CHEN

Weitseng Chen specializes in comparative Asian law—particularly within greater China area, with an emphasis on law and development, property law and financial institutions. He received his JSD from Yale Law School where he was a Fulbright scholar. Thereafter, he worked for Stanford University as a Hewlett Fellow of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). Immediately before he joined NUS Faculty of Law, Weitseng Chen worked as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Weitseng’s recent research focuses on authoritarian legality, property rights transition in greater China, and Asian law & development. He has published the books entitled “Authoritarian Legality in Asia: Formation, Development and Transition”(Cambridge University Press, 2020) and “The Beijing Consensus? How China has Changed the Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His other published articles can be found in the American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of International Economic Law, Washington International Law Journal, Chicago Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, and Australian Journal of Asian Law etc.

Weitseng Chen has also held visiting academic appointments at Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School, University of Tokyo, Seoul National University, University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Academia Sinica Institutum Iurisprudentiae, National Taiwan University, National Chengchi University and FGV DIREITO SP Law School (Brazil). He is also a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2021-22).

• Law, Institutions and Development
• Chinese Law
• Taiwan-China Comparative Legal Studies
• Financial Legal History