The Outstanding Research Awards winner for this year is Prof LOW Fatt Kin Kelvin (Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong). Prof Low’s paper, titled “Pause the Blockchain Legal Revolution”, critically evaluates the popular claims surrounding the potential of blockchain technologies to disrupt the legal system by separating hype from fact. A preprint of this paper is now available on SSRN:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3439918.

Meanwhile, the award of Outstanding Research Awards 2019 (Junior Faculty) goes to Dr LIN Yu-Hsin (Assistant Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong). By analyzing a unique dataset of 498 randomly sampled and hand‐coded charters of public firms in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Dr Lin’s paper, titled “An Empirical Study of Corporate Default Rules and Menus in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan”, sheds new light on the corporate law and economics theories of default rules and menus which originally developed in the American context. Here’s the link to Dr Lin’s paper:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2805870.

The School of Law would like to congratulate Prof Low and Dr Lin on their accomplishments, which we hold in high regard. We trust that the continued efforts and hard work of our academics would pay off sooner or later.