Sheng Jin

Sheng Jin is a PhD candidate at the Law School of Xiamen University and a recognised visiting student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. He obtained an LLM Degree in International Economic Law from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022.

His research mainly covers financial law and commercial law. He is particularly interested in a series of cutting-edge legal issues arising in the field of digital finance, which primarily include the governance of the blockchain ecosystem, the regulation of cryptocurrencies and the legal issues related to cross-border payments of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Sheng Jin is seeking to expand his research to the level of governance paradigms. He hopes to provide a viable governance framework for the decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem through his research on the relationship between blockchain technology and financial law. He published his paper “The paradigm logic of blockchain governance” (Vol. 78, Technology in Society) in September 2024, which is one of the milestones of his current research.

Sheng Jin is also interested in the field of commercial law. He pays special attention to the legal structure of commercial trusts in China and the legal issues of transplantation of the trust system in civil law countries. He also focuses on capital market legal issues such as asset securitisation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and the corporate governance of listed companies.

Sheng Jin specialises in the integrated application of multidisciplinary approaches to the study of legal issues, especially game theory approaches and economic methodology. He also has a strong research interest in legal anthropology and hopes to use anthropological methods to study and solve financial law problems in the future.