Professor Shitong Qiao (Duke Law School), Professor Chaoqun Zhan (Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University) 

The 2015 revision of China’s Administrative Litigation Law caused an explosive increase in courts’ workload, including a surge in Chinese citizens suing local governments over property expropriation. Professor Shitong Qiao of the Duke School of Law, one of the leading scholars of Chinese property law, and Professor Chaoqun Zhan, an economist at Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, will share their research into how that surge affected court decisions. Perhaps surprisingly, they found that busy Chinese courts are more likely to uphold plaintiffs’ claims against the government. Frank Upham, the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law at NYU Law School, will moderate.