East Asian Legal Studies Talk:
Michelle Miao
Associate Professor of Law\, The Ch
inese University of Hong Kong
Social media function not merely as communication conduits but as active agents shaping public discourses central to judicial matters and political life. This talk examines how public discussions of high-profile capital hom icide cases are transmitted through social media algorithms in China. Drawi ng on mediated populism and theories of political communication\, it analys es media data to explore the intersection of platform governance\, state co mmunication strategies\, and popular engagement with criminal justice. Empl oying content analysis and quantitative metrics\, the study contributes to scholarship on judicial politics and the evolving landscape of comparative law in the social media age.
Professor Michelle Miao is an Assoc iate Professor of law from the Faculty of Law\, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She holds a DPhil degree in law from the University of Oxford and two LLM degrees from New York University and Renmin University of China respec tively. She previously conducted research in the capacity of New York Unive rsity’s Global Fellow (2014-5) \, University of Oxford’s Howard League Fell ow (2013-4) and British Academy’s prestigious Postdoc Research Fellow (2015 -6)\, National University of Singapore’s ASLI visiting scholar (2019) and r ecently Harvard Yenching Scholar (2019-20).
Among Professor Miao’s re search interests are the intersections between law and technology\, crimina l justice\, socio-legal studies and comparative law. She published with rep utable international journals such as American Journal of Comparative Law\, International Comparative Law Quarterly and British Journal of Criminology . She presented her work at Asian Law Institute’s Junior Faculty Forum (202 1)\, Chicago-Tsinghua Junior Faculty Forum (2019)\, and Stanford Internatio nal Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) (2015). Her scholarship and commentaries ha ve been featured in various international media outlets\, including The Gua rdian\, Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, South China Morning Post\, and The Globe and Mail.
Professor Miao is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize (2020) for the most outsta nding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. She is also a recipie nt of CUHK Law’s Academic Impact in Legal Scholarship (2021)\, Asian Law In stitute’s Junior Faculty Award for Best Paper (2020)\, Chinese University o f Hong Kong’s Young Researcher Award (2019)\, and Chinese University Facult y Teaching Excellence Awards (Hong Kong\, 2019).
A light lunch will b e provided. Please register h ere.
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