Institute of Law for Science and
Technology, NTHUTsai, Chang-Hsien

Chang-hsien (Robert) TSAI is a Professor of Law and Business in the Institute of Law for Science and Technology (ILST), College of Technology Management (CTM), National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan (NTHU), where he directs the ILST and Master Program of Health Policy and Business Administration (HBA). In ILST he teaches Corporate Law (in English), Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Economic Analysis of Law, and seminars devoted to theoretical issues in financial and organizational law. In CTM he teaches courses in several executive education programs, such as Corporate Governance and the Law and Case Studies: A Law and Finance Perspective. He joined the NTHU faculty in 2010 and was granted the Young Faculty Research Award in November 2013, 2020 Outstanding Research Award of Hou De Association of CTM in September 2020, and the NTHU Distinguished Research Awards annually from 2012 until now; he was awarded Excellent Junior Research Investigator Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan) in 2019. He has been an advisor on company law reform in Taiwan.
 

Professor TSAI graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Law with an LL.B. degree and a Master of Law degree. Additionally, he completed an LL.M. degree in Corporate Law from New York University (NYU) and a J.S.D. from the University of Illinois (UIUC). During his time at NYU and UIUC, he worked with the late Professor Larry E. Ribstein, who was ranked in the top four of corporate law professors in scholarly impact and whose research was the fourteenth-most downloaded of law professors in the world on SSRN. He was admitted to the New York and Taiwan bars, and practiced law for several years in Taiwan before relocating to the United States to pursue graduate study in law.
 

Professor TSAI specializes in corporate law, financial market regulations, and securities regulation. Using analytic tools from the field of law and economics, he examines the interaction of public regulation (governments or law) and private regulation/governance (the market and firms). His current research topics can be grouped into two broader tracks: comparative corporate law (including corporate governance and corporate social responsibility) and comparative financial regulation, including consumer financial protection and regulation of emerging financial technology (such as crowdfunding, online supply-chain financing and peer-to-peer lending). His recent scholarship includes papers and a monograph published or accepted for publication in the Hong Kong Law Journal, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business, the Cornell International Law Journal, the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Boston University International Law Journal, the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, the Asian Journal of Law and Economics, the Asian Journal of Law and Society, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge. His research has received significant funding support from the Ministry of Science and Technology (Taiwan), the Taiwan Stock Exchange, and the Delta Electronics Foundation. In addition to the appointment as Visiting Associate Professor of Law in the School of Law Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, he was invited to be principal speakers or to deliver public lectures for other leading research institutions, such as KoGuan Law School Shanghai Jiao Tong University; the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; the Faculty of Law of Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; the Faculty of Law of Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan; the SungKyunKwan University Law School, Seoul, Korea; Erasmus School of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the School of Law at UNSW Sydney, Australia, where He has been invited to serve as Visiting Professorial Fellow.