Introduction
Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang is an associate professor at National Taiwan University Law School. He received his LL.B and LL.M at National Taiwan University in 2005 and 2010 respectively, and he also practiced law at Jones Day International Law Firm during that period. In 2011, sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, he commenced his LL.M and S.J.D. studies at Harvard University Law School and received the S.J.D. degree in 2017. Currently, his research interests focuse mainly on financial regulation, corporate governance, and international economic laws, including FinTech, financial institution governance, financial consumer protection, capital markets, international finance, WTO laws, digital trade, law and economics, etc. He is currently the deputy director of the Center for Innovative Enterprise Law at the National Taiwan University and the director of the Asian Center for WTO & International Health Law and Policy at the National Taiwan University College of Law.
Beside academic studies, Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang advised Taiwan's government agencies and institutions on various legal issues, including the Financial Supervisory Commission, the Ministry of the Digital Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of Trade Negotiations, the Anti-Money Laundering Office, Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taipei Stock Exchange, etc. He also serves as the director of Financial Ombudsman Institute in Taiwan. Internationally, he is the Co-Chair of the World Trade Organization's WTO Chair Programme (Phase III), the Co-Chair of the American Society of Comparative Law's Younger Comparativists Committee, the Executive Council member of the Society of International Economic Law, the member of the Asian WTO Research Network, and the member of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association, etc. He also serves as the editorial committee member of the Journal of World Investment & Trade, Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, and National Taiwan University Law Review.
Journal Papers
| Title | Date | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| ESG Regulations in Corporate Governance and the Corporate Purpose Debate: Utilizing the 2023 G-20/OECD Corporate Governance Principles as a Reference, 7(1) Taiwan Financial and Economic Law Review (Chinese) | 2025 | 275-324 |
| Corporate Fight Disputes and Arbitration's Dispute Resolution Function: Focusing on the Arbitration Clause in Charters, 119 Arbitration Quarterly | 2024 | 2-24 |
| Disciplining CBDCs: Achieving the Balance between the Privacy Protection and Central Bank Independence, 43(3) Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (co-authored with Cheng-Yun Tsang and Ping-Kuei Chen, correspondence author) | 2023 | 235-289 |
| The Financial Regulation of Interested Transactions under Taiwan’s Banking Act, 52(4) National Taiwan University Law Journal (Chinese) | 2023 | 1647-1734 |
| The Law and Economics Perspective of Financial Consumer Protection Laws and Regulations: Focusing on the Application of Behavioral Economics, 339 Taiwan Law Review (Chinese) | 2023 | 19-41 |
| The Comparative Development of Crypto-Asset Regulation and the Proposal on the Regulatory Structure for Taiwan, 335 Taiwan Law Review (Chinese) | 2023 | 39-63 |
| An Empirical Study on Corporate Governance and Management Diversity: Focusing on Female Participation in the Management of Taiwan’s Banks, 5(1) Taiwan Financial and Economic Law Review (Chinese) | 2023 | 303-340 |
| When Jurisdiction Rules Meet Blockchain: Can the Old Bottle Contain the New Wine?, 6(1) Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy | 2023 | 137-155 |
| The Crowd's Wisdom in Smart Contract Dispute Resolution: Is Crowdsourced Dispute Resolution Arbitration?, 15(2) Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal | 2022 | 175-203 |
| The Regulatory Perimeter for Crypto-Asset Anti-Money Laundering Regulations and International Standards: Comments on Taiwan's 'Regulations Governing Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism for Enterprises Handling Virtual Currency Platform or Transaction, 9 Legal Aid and Society Review (Chinese) | 2022 | 93-140 |
| Prepayment Business and the Financial Regulatory Perimeter for Taiwan’s Money Transmission Laws, 324 Taiwan Law Review (Chinese) | 2022 | 162-180 |
| Development in the Law in 2020: Corporate Laws and Securities Exchange Laws, 50(S) National Taiwan University Law Review (Chinese) | 2021 | 1573-1605 |
| The Financial Regulation of Decentralized Finance and Smart Contracts, 316 Taiwan Law Review (Chinese) | 2021 | 53-72 |
| The Rule-making Function of Commercial Courts on Commercial Laws: No. 770 Interpretation, Bills of Business Merger and Acquisition Act, and the Appraisal Price Ruling of Commercial Court, 310 Taiwan Law Review (Chinese) | 2021 | 97-116 |
| Reflection on the Reform Direction of Taiwan’s Listing Rules Based on the Recent Development of Direct Listings in the United States, 3(1) Taiwan Financial and Economic Law Review (Chinese) | 2021 | 191-234 |
| The Challenges to Financial Regulation in the FinTech Era: Envisaging the Regulatory Structure for Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms, 49(S) National Taiwan University Law Journal (Chinese) | 2020 | 1309-1396 |
| The Prudential Regulation of the Financial Systemic Risks of Taiwan’s Shadow Banks: Strengthening the Lender of Last Resort Regime of Central Banks, 27 Academia Sinica Law Journal (Chinese) | 2020 | 141-230 |
| The Legal Characterization of Crypto Asset: Focusing on Private Laws and Financial Laws (Chinese) | 2020 | 43-63 |
| Design the Clearing Laws for Securities Tokens: Focusing on the Central Deposit Requirements for Uncertificated Securities, 59 Property and Economic Law Journal (Chinese) | 2020 | 43-79 |
| Should The Proud Dragon Repent? A Relative Theory for China’s State Capitalist Banking Sector Based on East Asia's Experience, 43(2) Hastings International and Comparative Law Review | 2020 | 259-318 |
| Comments on the Latest Reform of Law on Mergers and Acquisitions between Financial Institutions by the Financial Supervisory Commission: On the Choice of Financial Regulatory Models (Chinese) | 2020 | 113-133 |
| The Corporate Governance of Public Companies, Institutional Investors, and Shareholder Activism, 2(1) Taiwan Financial and Economic Law Review (Chinese) | 2020 | 385-430 |
| The Challenges to Securities Regulatory Thinking in the Blockchain Era: Comments on the Latest Regulatory Guidelines for Securities Token Offerings Issued by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission, 48(S) National Taiwan University Law Journal (Chinese) | 2019 | 1279-1374 |
| The Direction for Reforming the Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions: Focusing on Independent Directors and Nominating Committees, 48(2) National Taiwan University Law Journal (Chinese) | 2019 | 683-750 |
| Government Ownership of Banks: A Curse or a Blessing for the United States?,10(3) William & Mary Business Law Review | 2019 | 667-735 |
| The Cloud for Dragons and the Wind for Tigers: Bank Governance Reform in China and an Executive-Based Proposal, 24(2) Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance | 2019 | 47-102 |
| Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons on the Great Wall Street: Decoding the Corporate Governance of Chinese Commercial Banks, 28(1) Washington International Law Journal | 2019 | 1-63 |
| The New Company Act and the Past and Future of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Legislative Structure and Court Practices of Taiwan’s Corporate Social Responsibility Theory, 18(1) Chung Cheng Financial and Economic Law Review (Chinese) | 2019 | 43-92 |
| RegTech and the New Era of Financial Regulators: Envisaging More Public-Private-Partnership Models of Financial Regulators, 21(2) University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law (co-authored with Cheng-Yun Tsang, first author) | 2018 | 354-404 |
| Government Ownership after the Partial Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises: The Corporate Governance Role of Government Shareholders in Privatized Enterprises, 51 Property and Economic Law Review | 2018 | 113-64 |
| The Evolving Prudential Exceptions in Regional Trade Agreements, 13(2) Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy | 2018 | 395-441 |
| State Capitalism, State-Owned Banks, and WTO's Subsidy Regime: Proposing an Institution Theory, 54(2) Stanford Journal of International Law (co-authored with Pin-Hsien Lee, first author) | 2018 | 117-158 |
| Haste Makes Waste: WTO, Pilot Free Trade Zones and Financial Experiments, 34(4) Wisconsin International Law Journal | 2017 | 854-913 |
| Is Moderation the Highest Virtue? A Comparative Study of a Middle Way of Control Transaction Regimes, 41(2) Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (co-authored with Pin-Hsien Lee, first author) | 2017 | 393-460 |
| Opening the Door for Arbitration: Visiting the Arbitral Proceedings of a BOT Dispute in Taiwan When Faced with Preliminary Issues of Administrative Dispositions Disputes, 3(1) Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal | 2010 | 123-163 |
| Taiwan, 622 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (co-authored with Kuan-Ling Shen) | 2009 | 301-309 |
| Both a Moral Virtue and a Legal Duty: Revisiting the Duty of Collaboration Rule in WTO Dispute Settlement System, 1(2) Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal | 2008 | 357-406 |
Papers in Collections
| Title | Date | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Regulation and Financial Technology, in Review of Researches and Social Impact in Laws (2001~2020) (I) (Chen-Jung Chan et al., eds.) | 2024 | 664-687 |
| From AI's Legal Personhood to AI's Legal Entity: An Law and Economics Perspective on Asset Partitioning, in AI's Legal Foundations: Constructive Laws on Disruptive Innovation (Chien-Liang Lee ed.) (Chinese) | 2024 | 287-330 |
| Ensuring the Board's Independence in Controlled Companies: An Enhanced Nominating Committee Proposal, in Current Legal Issues in American and Taiwanese Law (Laurent Mayali & Kuan-Ling Shen eds.) | 2023 | 429-460 |
| Trust in a Trustless World: Crypto-Asset Custodians, Trusts and Trust Regulation in Taiwan, in Asia-Pacific Trust Laws, Volume 2: Adaptation in Context (Ying Khai Liew & Ying-Chieh Wu eds.) | 2022 | 111-128 |
| Data Protection in the Big Data Era: The Broken Informed Consent Regime and the Way Forward, in Data Governance in AI, FinTech and LegalTech: Law and Regulation in the Financial Sector (Joseph Lee & Aline Darbellay eds.) | 2022 | 58-77 |
| Taiwan’s Trusts Law and Name-Borrowing Arrangements, in Asia-Pacific Trust Law: Theory and Practice in Context (Ying Khai Liew & Matthew Harding eds.) (co-authored with Wen-Yeu Wang) | 2021 | 251-270 |
| The Financial Application and Regulations of Artificial Intelligence, in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Challenges (Li-Ching Chang ed.) (Chinese) | 2021 | 512-528 |
| Securities Regulation and the Development of Institutional Investors: Focusing on the Regulation of Private Funds, in The Trend of Financial and Economic Law in the 21st Century: A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Kuo-Chuan Lin (Chinese) | 2020 | 337-358 |
| Envisaging an East Asian Model of Corporate Governance: A Developmental State Perspective, in Legal Thoughts Between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order: A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma (Chang-Fa Lo et al. eds.) | 2016 | 445-474 |
| Reflection on the Prior Negotiation Exemption of Health-related Compulsory License under WTO: Started from Taiwan Tamiflu Compulsory License, in Scientific Evidence in International and European Law: Proceedings of the First Young Researchers Workshop on Science and Law (Maria Chiara Malaguti & Claudio Dordi eds.) | 2011 | 162-182 |
Projects
| Category | Topics | Dates | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University | The Financial Consumer Protection of Emerging FinTech Services: Proposing a Light-Touch Approach for Regulating FinTech | 2024/01/01-2026/12/31 | Principal Investigator |
| National Science and Technology Council | Rethinking the Financial Holdings Regulation in Taiwan: Oriented Toward a Financial Group Regulation Insight | 2023/08/01-2026/07/31 | Principal Investigator |
| World Trade Organization | WTO Chairs Programme (WCP) PHASE III | 2022/01/01-2025/12/31 | Co-Chair Holder |
| National Science and Technology Council | The Humanity Issues and Legal Reflections in the Digital Society of AI Era | 2022/08/01-2025/07/31 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Taipei Stock Exchange Corporation | A Study on Implementing the Travel Rules in Taiwan's Virtual Asset Service Providers | 2024/08/01-2025/03/31 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation | The Feasibility for Amending "Financial Technology Development and Innovative Experimentation Act" | 2023/11/01-2024/07/31 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Science and Technology | Digital Intelligent Courts, Legal Technology, and Access to Justice | 2021/08/01-2024/07/31 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Central Deposit Insurance Corporation | The Study of the Resolution Mechanism and Cases of Insolvent Financial Institutions with and without Systemic Risks | 2023/07/01-2024/06/30 | Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Science and Technology | Reshaping the Financial Regulatory Perimeter in the FinTech Era | 2021/08/01-2023/07/31 | Principal Investigator |
| National Taiwan University | Securities Regulations in the Era of Blockchain: Focusing on the Regulation of Crypto Asset | 2020/01/01-2022/12/31 | Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Justice | Taiwan’s Legal Responses to Online Arbitration Mechanisms and Cross-Border Investment Arbitration | 2022/06/01-2022/12/28 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Institute for Information Industry | A Study on Solutions for Green Finance and Legal Adaptations in Practice | 2022/06/09-2022/12/16 | Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Justice | The Study on Purpose Trust Issues | 2021/05/01-2021/11/30 | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Science and Technology | Revisiting Taiwan’s Policy of Separation between Industry and Finance: Focusing on the Laws on Related-Party Credits | 2019/08/01-2021/07/31 | Principal Investigator |
| Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation | The Comparative Advantages of and Regulatory Recommendations for Taiwan’s Current Financial Holding Company Regime versus European Universal Bank Regime | 2020/09/01-2021/06/30 | Principal Investigator |
| Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation | The Status Quo and Comparative Regulation of Securities Token Offerings | 2020/02/21-2020/10/31 | Principal Investigator |
| Ministry of Science and Technology | Financial Regulations of the Systemic Risks of Shadow Banks | 2018/05/01-2019/04/30 | Principal Investigator |
