Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

Platforms as Enforcement Infrastructure: Copyright in China's Online Music Market, American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
The Legal Architecture of Data: A Center-of-Gravity Theory, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (forthcoming) (with Ran Ji)

Books

The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Articles & Essays

From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition, 51 Law & Social Inquiry 180-202 (2026) (with Bingwan Xiong)
Governing with Digital Platforms: A Chinese Lesson for the U.S.?, 36 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 1-42 (2026)
Social Norms 2.0: From Private Governance to Co-Evolution, 51 Law and Social Inquiry 917-924 (2026) (reviewing Florian Grisel, The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery (2021))
Communities Built on Political Trust: Theory and Evidence From China, Urban Studies (2024) (with Yu Zeng)
Cooperating to Resist: Society and State During China’s COVID Lockdowns, 35 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 877-924 (2024)
Workload, Legal Doctrine, and Judicial Review in an Authoritarian Regime: A Study of Expropriation Judgments in China, 80 International Review of Law and Economics, article 106232, 1-15 (2024) (with Chaoqun Zhan)
Finance Against Law: The Case of China, 64 Harvard International Law Journal 431-487 (2023)
The Authoritarian Commons: Divergent Paths of Neighborhood Democratization in Three Chinese Megacities, 71 American Journal of Comparative Law 388-443 (2023)
Land Options for Housing: How New Property Rights Can Break Old Land Monopolies, 44 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 163-233 (2022) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
The Structure and Spirit of Chinese Property Law, in The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society 52-60 (Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies, and Lee Godden eds., 2022)
Legal Doctrine and Judicial Review of Eminent Domain in China, 46 Law and Social Inquiry 826-859 (2021) (with Wenzheng Mao)
Expropriation in the Name of Rights: Transferable Development Rights (TDRs), the Bundle of Sticks and Chinese Politics, 13 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1-43 (2019)
Fragmented Laws, Contingent Choices: The Tragicomedy of the Village Commons in China, 29 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 235-275 (2019)
Binding Leviathan: Credible Commitment in an Authoritarian Regime, 102 Minnesota Law Review 1591-1617 (2018) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
Exclusionary Megacities, 91 Southern California Law Review 467-522 (2018) (with Wendell Pritchett)
Foreword: Introduction to Decentralization and Development, 102 Minnesota Law Review 1485-1492 (2018) (with Richard Epstein)
Rights-Weakening Federalism, 102 Minnesota Law Review 1671-1702 (2018)
China's Changing Property Law Landscape, in Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives 311-332 (Michele Graziadei & Lionel Smith eds., 2017) (with Frank K. Upham)
The Evolution of Chinese Property Law: Stick by Stick?, in Private Law in China and Taiwan: Legal and Economic Analyses 182-211 (Yun-chien Chang, Wei Shen & Wen-yeu Wang eds., 2017)
Voice and Exit as Accountability Mechanisms: Can Foot-Voting Be Made Safe for the Chinese Communist Party?, 48 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 158-210 (2017) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
Dealing With Illegal Housing: What Can New York City Learn From Shenzhen, 43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 713-740 (2016)
Small Property, Adverse Possession and Optional Law, in Law and Economics of Possession 290-319 (Yun-chien Chang ed., 2015)
Small Property, Big Market: A Focal Point Explanation, 63 American Journal of Comparative Law 197-238 (2015)
The Evolution of Relational Property Rights: A Case of Chinese Rural Land Reform, 100 Iowa Law Review 2479-2506 (2015) (with Frank K. Upham)
The Politics of Chinese Land: Partial Reform, Vested Interests and Small Property, 29 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 70-112 (2015)
Planting Houses in Shenzhen: A Real Estate Market Without Legal Titles, 29 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 253-272 (2014)
Governing the Post-Socialist Transitional Commons: A Case from Rural China, 24 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 117-162 (2013)
Whither China’s Non-Interference Principle?, 4 European Society of International Law (ESIL) Research Forum 1-25 (2011)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

China’s Economic Reset Starts at City Hall, Nikkei Asia (October 5, 2026)
Cleanup of China Evergrande Collapse Calls for Coordination and Clarity, Nikkei Asia (March 6, 2024)
How Technology Is Changing Justice in China, Judicature International (June 1, 2022) (with Benjamin Chen) |(with Zhiyu Li)
A Rural-Urban Crossroads in Chinese Law: Qiao Shitong on the Development and Future of Chinese Eminent Domain, Bulletin -- Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (March 3, 2022) (with Marc Chien)
Breaking Old Land Monopoly in Hong Kong to Resolve the City’s Housing Crisis, South China Morning Post (March 1, 2022) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
Development Rights for All, 1 USALI Perspectives (June 17, 2021) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)
Here Is How TDRs Outweigh Lantau Reclamation Plan, South China Morning Post (March 31, 2021, at p2) (with Roderick M. Hills, Jr.)

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