2026
Live Broadcasting the Courtroom: A Field Experiment Using Real Trials
John Zhuang Liu, Yingmao Tang
The Journal of Legal Studies
JOHN ZHUANG LIU
liuz@hku.hk
Biography
John Zhuang Liu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. His research interests include law and economics, artificial intelligence and law, judicial behavior, and computational legal studies. He has published extensively in journals such as the Journal of Legal Analysis , Journal of Legal Studies, China Quarterly, and Journal of Comparative Economics. He is also the author of books including 'Ruling with AI: Toward an AI-Native Judiciary' and 'Can Machine Replace Judges? Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Law'.
Education and Experience
Employment
- University of Hong KongAssociate Professor, Faculty of Law
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, ShenzhenAssistant Professor, School of Management and Economics
- University of VirginiaVisiting Associate Professor, School of Law
- University of ChicagoVisiting Associate Professor, School of Law
Education
- University of ChicagoPh.D.
- University of ChicagoMaster's
- Peking UniversityPh.D.
- Peking UniversityMaster's
- Peking UniversityBachelor's
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
2025
Courting a Blue Sky? Understanding the Constrained Judicialization of Environmental Governance in China
Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, Shaoda Wang
Journal Of Contemporary China，Vol. 340, No. 155
2025
The Rise of the Chinese Judiciary and Its Limits: Administrative Litigation in the Reform Period
Yuxia Zhang, John Zhuang Liu
The China Quarterly
2024
陪审团制能促进司法信任吗?
刘庄
《法律和社会科学》
2024
编辑手记
刘庄
《法律和社会科学》
2023
Data Privacy and Algorithmic Inequality
Zhuang Liu, Michael Sockin, Wei A. Xiong
National Bureau of Economic Research
2022
Is Trial Fairness Affected in Live Broadcast? Preliminary Evidence from a Court in China
Yingmao Tang, Zhuang Liu, Kangyun Bao
China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal On Greater China，Vol. 220, No. 30
2022
Authoritarian transparency: China's missing cases in court disclosure
Zhuang Liu, T. J. Wong, Yang Yi, Tianyu Zhang
Journal Of Comparative Economics，Vol. 500, No. 1
2022
Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2021 333 pp. $34.95 ISBN 978-0-472-03873-2
Zhuang Liu
The China Quarterly
2021
Precedents and Chinese Judges: An Experiment
John Zhuang Liu, Lars Klöhn, Holger Spamann
The American Journal of Comparative Law
2020
Jury trial and public trust in the judiciary: evidence from cross-countries comparison
John Zhuang Liu, Lei Chen
Asia Pacific Law Review
2019
Legal Techniques for Rationalizing Biased Judicial Decisions: Evidence from Experiments with Real Judges
John Zhuang Liu, Xueyao Li
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
Preprints
2026
A Few Bad Apples? Academic Dishonesty, Political Selection, and Institutional Performance in China
Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, Shaoda Wang
SSRN Electronic Journal
2025
The Law and Economics of Lawyers: Evidence from the Revolving Door in China's Judicial System
Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, Shaoda Wang, Daniel Yi Xu
SSRN Electronic Journal
Book Chapters
2020
Computational legal studies in China: progress, challenges, and future
Yingmao Tang, John Zhuang Liu
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks