Dr. XIAO Huina, Nancy
Dr. XIAO Huina, Nancy
Associate Head of Department, Assistant Professor
Academic Qualifications
PhD (City University of Hong Kong)
JM (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
LLB (Northwest University of Politics and Law)
Contact Details
Phone: (852) 2804-8524
Email: hxiao@hksyu.edu
Research Interests
Tax law, Law and Technology, Socio-Legal Study, Chinese Law
Teaching
LAW200 Constitutional Law
LAW416 Private International Law
LAW300 Chinese Legal System
LAW322 Risk and Compliance
GED219 Legal Pitfalls in the Digital Era
Publications
Book or Book Chapters
1. Xiao, Huina, Tax Governance in China, Routledge, Monograph, forthcoming.
2. He, Xin and Huina Xiao, ‘Women and Divorce: Institutional Constraints and Outcomes, and Possible Ways Forward,' in Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century, Malešević, Gordana, ed, World Scientific, 2026.
Journal Articles
3. Xiao, Huina, and Peter C.H. Chan (2026). Cooptation Justice: How Litigation Weakened the Position of Married-Out Women in China, Law & Society Review, forthcoming. (SSCI, Q1)
4. Xiao, Huina, Liuxi Chen, Weilin Chen, Shuyue Li, Xinlu Li, Rongjia Tong, and Yan Wang (2023). Compliance with the Personal Information Protection Law in China: Empirical Analysis on 80 Mobile Applications (中國個人信息保護的守法研究──基於對80款APP的實證調研分析), Digital Law Review (數字法學) 1:120-161.
5. Xiao, Huina, and Ding, Chunyan (2023). Explaining the Variations in Legal Mobilization of Environmental NGOs in Authoritarian China: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, 45 Law & Policy (2): 181–210 (SSCI).
6. Xiao, Huina (2022). Why Do They Not Comply with the Law? A Review of the Legal Compliance Theory (人們為什麽不守法？守法理論研究述評), 44 China Law Review (中國法律評論) 2:107–121 (CSSCI, republished by China Social Science Excellence 人大復印報刊資料 Issue No.10, 2022).
7. Xiao, Huina (2022). Ambivalent Tax Morale-Building in China, 20 China: An International Journal 2:69–100 (SSCI).
8. Ding, Chunyan, and Xiao, Huina (2021). A Paper Tiger? Prosecutorial Regulators in China’s Civil Environmental Public Interest Litigations, 32 Fordham Environmental Law Review 3:323–379 (corresponding author).
9. Chan, Peter C.H., and Xiao, Huina (2020). Weak Criminalization of Domestic Violence in China: Two Key Weaknesses, Journal of Comparative Law, 15(2):88–111 (corresponding author).
10. Chan, Peter C.H., and Xiao, Huina (2021). A Typology for Judicial Liability for Error in Chinese Courts, 51 Hong Kong Law Journal 1:309–337 (SSCI, corresponding author).
11. He, Xin, and Xiao, Huina (2019). A Typology of Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shoe Industry, 41 Law & Policy 2: 242–266 (SSCI, corresponding author).
12. Xiao, Huina (2018). Why Law Enforcement Is Weak in China: The Mindset of the Frontline Tax Officials, 31 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 2: 218–262.
13. Xiao, Huina (2013). The Regeneration of the Village Order: A Case Study of the Ban on Temple Fair Banquet in Chaoyang Town (鄉村秩序的再生—以朝陽鎮“廟會宴客禁令”為例), Law and Social Science (法律和社會科学), 11: 199–277 (CSSCI).
Research Grants
1. "Why Do They Not Comply with the law? An Empirical Study on the Foreign Domestic Helpers' Illegal Hawking in Hong Kong", Faculty Development Scheme, Research Grants Council, 1 Jan 26-31 Dec 2027. Acting as Principal Investigator. Grant amount: HK$429,867 (24 months). Project Reference No.: UGC/FDS15/H06/25.
2. "Legal Mobilization of the Foreign Domestic Workers: Empirical Study in Hong Kong and Macau", University Research Grant, HKSYU (URG/23/13). 1 May 2024 - 1 May 2026. Acting as Principal Investigator. Grant amount: HK$40,000.
Paper Presentations
1. Ants against Big Tech: Legal Mobilization of Personal Data Protection in China, 2026 CCCL Chinese and Comparative Law Junior Scholars Forum: "The Study of Chinese Law in the Age of AI", hold on 11th - 12th 2026, hosted by the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong and Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law (CCCL), Hong Kong.
*Best Paper Award at the Main Forum and shortlisted for publication at Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (JCR Law Ranking Q2).
2. Mobilizing Law from the Margins: Everyday Rights Protection among Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, 2026 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, held on 28th - 31st May 2026, hosted by LSA in San Francisco, California, USA.
3. Why Does Decentralized Economy Comply with Centralized Regulations? The Case of Crypto Exchanges, The Asian Law and Society Association Meeting (ALSA 2023), held on 15th-16th December 2023, hosted by Sunway University, Malaysia.
4. The Three Forms of Legal Mobilization: The Case of Married-out-women’s Land Rights Inequality in the Rural Areas, Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti—Discrimination law 2022 Hong Kong Conference, held on June 22–24, 2022, hosted by the University of Hong Kong, virtual meeting.
5. Illegal Employment of the Foreign Migrant Workers in Macao, ComplianceNet 2021 Conference, hosted by the University College London, June 28, 2021.
6. Chair and Presenter of the Panel "Regulation and Compliance in Developing Economies" at the International Conference on Unpacking the Complexity of Regulatory Governance in a Globalizing World, hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 4-6, 2019.
7. When Do Non-State Actors Govern? A Crisp Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Environmental NGOs in the Public Interest Litigations, Stanford Program in Law and Society’s Sixth Conference for Junior Researchers, May 10–11, 2019.
8. Vicious Circle: Regulating Invoice-Related Tax Evasions in China, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, June 2–5, 2016.