Guotong Shen (G.)

Guotong Shen is a Ph.D. candidate of METRO at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. She is a member of the Ius Commune Research School. Her Ph.D. project concerns employee participation in corporations from a law and economics perspective. Her research interests are law and economics, corporate governance, empirical legal studies, and Chinese law. She has contributed to the journal of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association on corporate governance and insolvency in the Netherlands. Her academic work has appeared in leading journals, such as Modern China, and University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review.

Guotong obtained her Bachelor of Management degree at East China University of Political Science and Law in July 2019, majoring in Labour and Social Security. She also minored in Law from 2016 to 2018. In November 2019, she graduated from the University of Leeds with a Master of Laws degree in International Business Law.

Since 2019, Guotong has been granted the National Legal Professional Qualification of China. 

Publications

Peter C.H. Chan and Shen Guotong*, “Court Personnel Management Reforms in China: Have They Enhanced Judicial Professionalism?”, Modern China, forthcoming 2025.

Shen Guotong and Peter C.H. Chan*, “The Party’s Court or the Court for the Parties: An Empirical Assessment of the Fifth Judicial Reform in China”, University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, forthcoming 2025.