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Simin

Simin Gao is Associate Professor at the Law School of Tsinghua University. She received her doctorate degree in law from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was a former Russell Ackoff Fellow (2011–2012) at Penn’s Wharton School of Business. She brings interdisciplinary perspective to a wide range of emerging issues that encompass bankruptcy law, corporation law, financial law, law and economic and comparative law. She has authored several publications on bankruptcy Law, financial law and regulation which appeared on law journals in U.S. and EU, like American Bankruptcy Law Journal, European Business Organization Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Texas International Law Review, Banking law Journal, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, and International Corporate Rescue. She was the only winner majoring in social science to receive the Extraordinary Excellent Prize of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financing Student Abroad in 2012. She received the Peking Excellent Junior Scholar grant and several start-up grants from Department of Justice, Department of Education and Tsinghua University. She serves as the editor or peer reviewer for Chinese and U.S. leading law journals.