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Biography

Virginia HARPER HO is a Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong School of Law. Her primary research interests focus on the intersections of corporate law and governance, securities regulation, sustainability and finance from a comparative perspective. Her work has been published by leading law journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the American Business Law Journal. She has written recently on ESG disclosure, shareholder activism, comparative corporate governance, and China's green finance reforms.

She is an Associate Editor and Editorial Board member of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), and a Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program. She has also served as a Research Fellow of the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing. Her recent article, Modernizing ESG Disclosure, was recognized by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) as one of the top twenty articles on environmental law and policy published in 2021-2022.

Current Projects

corporate climate governance, corporate pluralism, taxonomies

Research Interests

comparative corporate governance (East Asia, U.S.), sustainability, shareholder activism, ESG, securities regulation, Chinese legal reform

Working Papers

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