BLOGGING

• Spring, 2013-present, the Supreme People’s Court Monitor (https://www.supremepeoplescourtmonitor.com), focusing on developments relating to China’s highest court, cited by the New York Times,Wall Street Journal,South China Morning Post,Financial Times,The Economist, and The Guardian. Articlesfrom the blog have also been reprinting in leading Wechat public accounts. Well known law school and political science professors have included blogposts and it has been cited in government and think tank reports. It has been described by the Harvard Law School library as one of the top China law blogs.

• Contributor, Global Military Justice Reform (http://globalmjreform.blogspot), edited by Eugene Fidell, Yale Law School, leading scholar and practitioner of military law. Among the many posts include:What does Chinese civil-military integration mean for the courts? http://globalmjreform.blogspot.hk/2017/04/what-does-chinese-civil-military.html (21 April 2017)

ARTICLES (since 2010)

• China’s Highest Court and “Foreign-Related Rule of Law,” European Chinese Law Research Hub blog, March 31, 2024 

• “How China’s Supreme People’s Court Supports the Development of Foreign-Related Rule of Law,”8 China Law and Society Review  62–118 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1163/25427466-08010001

• New Directions for the Supreme People’s Court?,” in USALI Perspectives, 4, No. 3, Oct. 26, 2023, https://usali.org/usali-perspectives-blog/new-directions-for-the-supreme-peoples-court

• Il ruolo svolto dal sistema giudiziario cinese nella lotta contro la pandemia [The Role of the Chinese Judiciary in Fighting the Pandemic] Mondo Cinese #173, 2023, 79-86

• Introduction to book chapter by Wen Xiantao,  Comparative Analysis of the Singapore Convention in Light of the New York and Hague Choice of Court Conventions, Comparative and Transnational Dispute Resolution (Shahla Ali, ed), Routledge, 2023, 170-196

• What the 2019 Fourth Party Plenum means for the Chinese Courts, Mondo Cinese, #167, 81-92, June 30, 2020

• Legal Trends in China in 2020 as Seen from the Chinese Courts (Civil/Commercial). Presentation as part of panel on April 22, 2020– China: Law, Economy and Trade in 2020, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

• The International Fraud & Corruption Sanctioning System: The Case of Chinese SOEs, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3119592, Forthcoming, Julien Chaisse (ed) China’s International Investment Strategy – Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy (London: Oxford University Press, 2018)

• 权威！仲裁司法审查案件归口办理通知中英文对照版（附美国专家点评）（中英文对照版） | 万邦仲裁, https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/6x1_2lFclgCWDePX9vlt4w

• Guest Editor,Chinese Law & Government, Administrative Litigation cases, and introduction, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mclg20/current.

• China’s Evolving Case Law System in Practice,Tsinghua China Law Review, http://www.tsinghuachinalawreview.org/articles/0902_Finder.htm

• Liaoning High Court Looks into Labor Issues in Bankruptcy, March 2, 2017 HR Legal Global Wechat account, https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qFgsqlQtC7imDENbZWUjRg

• Why are Chinese judges resigning?[老外看司改]，February 26, 2017, 法客帝国 Wechat public account, http://chuansong.me/n/1610294547753

• 第19期 Ι美国专家看中国国际海事司法中心建设及其建议, December 9, 2016, 中国应用法学研究所 Wechat account 中国应用法学研究所，中国应用法学研究所 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eC7LSr2tKLw0uLxn3b8lXg

• Hong Kong must become involved in mainland China’s plea bargaining pilots, 19 September 2016,South China Morning Post, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2020640/hong-kong-must-become-involved-plea-bargaining-pilot

• Cross-Border Legal Research Centre,Hong Kong Lawyer, June, 2016, http://www.hk-lawyer.org/content/cross-border-legal-research-centre

• Talks Could Signal Improved Cross-border Legal Cooperation,South China Morning Post, 20 June 2016, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1978078/talks-could-signal-improved-cross-border-legal-cooperation

• China’s Highest Court Arms Investors to Go After Corporate Cheats,Forbes, 22 April 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanfinder/2016/04/22/chinas-highest-court-to-arms-investors-to-go-after-corporate-cheats/#37e345ff107f

• Can You Be Sued in China? What Chinese Court Filing Reforms Mean For Business,Forbes, 5 April 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanfinder/2016/04/05/can-you-be-sued-in-china-what-chinese-court-filing-reforms-mean-for-business/#783137c273db

• China’s Maritime Courts: Defenders of ‘Judicial Sovereignty’,The Diplomat, 5 April 2016, http://thediplomat.com/2016/04/chinas-maritime-courts-defenders-of-judicial-sovereignty/(Chinese version also published on Wechat)

• Obama Nominated my Schoolmate to the Supreme People’s Court, (English version) http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MzIxODIyMg==&mid=402140365&idx=2&sn=44d294a243851af4a774f812f1d666d3&scene=5&srcid=0321VJf9LNRgZ613j2PNXKgv#rd, 21 March 2016, Chinese version: 22 March 2016, http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3MzIxODIyMg==&mid=402156751&idx=2&sn=eb2a9ab3d7d2310ce4345e446158ffcc&scene=5&srcid=0323tcdINgnnJsgDhNSOfmOh#rd,Wechat Public Account of Supreme People’s Court Judge He Fan.

• What you should know about heading a Wechat Group,South China Morning Post, 25 January 2016, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1904888/what-you-should-know-about-heading-wechat-group.

• Ruling the PLA According to Law: An Oxymoron? Jamestown Foundation China Brief, 2 November 2015, http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=44557&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=25&cHash=42770a8aa1f2363c8e684e2c4aed6b87#.V2quOeZ94jd

• Why Hong Kong Must Point Out Failings with Mainland’s Draft Law on Domestic Violence,South China Morning Post, October 12, 2015, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1866655/why-hong-kong-must-point-out-failings-mainlands-draft-law

• Hong Kong people should study Shenzhen to better understand how the mainland Chinese legal system works,South China Morning Post, September 6, 2015, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1856114/hong-kong-people-should-study-shenzhen-better-understand

• Private Lending in China: Out of the Shadows? The Diplomat, August 12, 2015, http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/private-lending-in-china-out-of-the-shadows/

• Shadow Banking Cases Threaten to Overwhelm China’s Courts, June, 5, 2015, http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/shadow-banking-cases-threaten-to-overwhelm-chinas-courts/.

• Assessing China’s Company Law Reforms,Nikkei Asian Review, April 16, 2015, http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20150416-INDIA-40/Viewpoints/Susan-Finder-Assessing-China-s-company-law-reforms.

• Conducting Due Diligence Getting Easier on Mainland, May 19, 2015,South China Morning Post, http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1802535/conducting-due-diligence-getting-easier-mainland.

• Hong Kong Needs an Advisory Committee to Examine Complex Cross-Border Legal Issues,South China Morning Post, (http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1739166/hong-kong-needs-advisory-committee-examine-complex-cross-border-legal).

• Shoring Up the Rule of Law in China’s Military,The Diplomat, 4 February 2015, http://globalmjreform.blogspot.hk/2015/02/how-should-chinese-military-courts-be.html.

• China Regulatory Playbook: Food Safety Raids,Practical Law China,4 February 2015, http://uk.practicallaw.com/2-598-4225.

• How China Classifies State Secrets,The Diplomat, 23 December 2014, http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/how-china-classifies-state-secrets/.

• China GC Agenda: December, 2014 Practical Law China (http://uk.practicallaw.com/2-591-6905).

• A Brief analysis and Suggestions Concerning Four Issues related to the Supreme People’s Court’s authority to issue judicial interpretations (in Chinese),Rule of Law in China; Discourse and Practice, 2ndedition, (Liang Zhiping, Editor) Chinese University of Political Science and Law Press, 2015.

• Using Model Cases to Guide the Chinese Courts,Blog of the China Policy Institute of Nottingham University (http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2014/04/07/using-model-cases-to-guide-the-chinese-courts/), 2014.

• Shareholder Derivative Actions in China: Lessons to Be Learned from Shin Kong, Bloomberg Law Reports, Corporate and M & A, Vol. 5, #22, 2011.

• 2010 Reforms in the Chinese Courts: Reforming Judicial Committees,Bloomberg Law Reports, Asia Pacific,August, 2010.

PEER REVIEW

• Journal of Law & Society;Law & Social Inquiry; Asia Pacific Law Review; Hong Kong Law Journal; Journal of Contemporary China.

• Occasional Informal adviser to students researching the Chinese courts from: University of California, Berkeley; School of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University; University of California, Irvine; University of Oslo; Max Planck Institute, Luxemburg, Harvard Law School; University of Tuebingen.

• Commentator on draft academic articles on articles relating to the Chinese courts written by law professors from various parts of the world.

• China in the Year of the Rooster (legal aspects), Young China Watchers Hong Kong, 22 February 2017http://www.youngchinawatchers.com/hong-kong-china-in-the-year-of-the-rooster-with-seen-meng-chew-susan-finder-hak-yin-li-seen-meng-chew-susan-finder-and-hak-yin-li/.

• The Evolving Relationship Between the National People’s Congress and the Supreme People’s Court, The Fourth Academic Conference on Law, Courts and Judges in Comparative Perspective, University of Hong Kong, July 3, 2024

• How the Supreme People's Court Supports China's Foreign-Related Rule of Law (in Chinese), June 21, 2024, Qingdao University School of Law

• Opening-up of financial institutions and the rule of law, International Seminar on the Financial Rule of Law of the 2024 Lujiazui Forum, June 20, 2024

• The Dynamic Evolution of Case Law with Chinese Characteristics, Presentation (online) to class of Professor Enrico Toti, University Roma Tre,May 30, 2024.

• The Contribution of the PRC Supreme Court to the Foreign Rule of Law Under the Belt & Road Initiative (in Chinese), Fudan Institute of Belt & Road  and Global Governance May 14, 2024 

• How the Supreme People's Court Supports China's Foreign-Related Rule of Law (in Chinese), Fudan University School of Law, May 13, 2024 

• How the Supreme People's Court Supports China's Foreign-Related Rule of Law (in Chinese), Nanjing University School of Law, May 9, 2024, 

• How the Supreme People's Court Supports China's Foreign-Related Rule of Law (in English), The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, May 8, 2024.

• The Dynamic Evolution of Case Law with Chinese Characteristics, European Union Chamber of Commerce Legal and Competition Working Group, Beijing, April 26, 2024.

•  How (and Why) the Supreme People’s Court Supports the Development of Foreign-Related Rule of Law, Cornell Law School, Berger International Speaker Series, February 29, 2024 

• How the Supreme People’s Court Supports the Development of Foreign-Related Rule of Law, Fourth session of the "Legal Empirical Research Workshop"of the Chinese Academy of Law and Social Studies Shanghai Jiaotong University, December 19, 2023.

• How the Supreme People’s Court Supports Foreign-Related Rule of Law, International Research Webinar, University of Sydney China Studies Centre, December 1, 2023.

•  Using Judicial Cooperation & Multiple Functions to Improve Environmental Protection, Shanghai Judicial Forum on Frontier Issues, September 22, 2023, the 7^th Chongming World-Class Ecological Island Judicial Symposium

• Closing Remarks (in Chinese), Fourth Annual Conference of China Forum of Financial & Investment Disputes, September 7, 2023, Beijing

• Modernization of Chinese Mediation Law, 2023 China Arbitration Summit Forum and the 3rd “Belt.  and Road” High-End Forum of Arbitration Institutions, September 6, 2023

• Becoming a Legal Professional of the World, Capital University of Economics and Business, September 5, 2023

• Advanced Lecture Hall丨Professor Susan Finder talks about the policy functions of the Supreme Court from a comparative perspective, May 29, 2023, Tongji University School of Law, Shanghai

• Impact of China’s evolving data protection law on international arbitration & litigation in foreign courts, Digital Trade, Data Flow, and Dispute Resolution in the Digital Economy, Wuhan, May 12, 2023.

• “Impact of China’s evolving data protection law on international arbitration & litigation in foreign courts (in program as Improving China’s Foreign-Related Legal System),”  International Symposium on Accelerating Changes Unseen in a Century and the Development of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, November 25-26, 2022 (delivered online), also given at the Rule of Law in Global Digital Trade Summit Forum, Hangzhou, China (delivered online), December 13, 2022, also given at Wuhan University School of Law, May 12, 2023.

• The Functions of the Supreme People’s Court and Their Implications, Presentation (online) to class of Professor Enrico Toti, University Roma Tre, November 15, 2022, also April 12, 2021 and November 15, 2021

• “Why the Supreme People’s Court Provides Services and Safeguards for the Greater Bay Area Strategy, One Country, Two Systems and Cross-Border Legal Harmonization,”  November 5, 2022, University of Hong Kong Law Faculty,  reported at: https://www.ccl.law.hku.hk/copy-of-event-20220422