Shitong Qiao
@shitongqiao.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Duke. Author of The Authoritarian Commons, Chinese Small Property, and Finance against Law. After two decades studying law, I’m still captivated by these questions: What is law? Does law matter? Why?
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The Democratic Party’s winners this week “arguably got more out of affordability than any other approach,” @dkthomp.bsky.social argues. A party that adopts that approach at the national level “is in a strong position going into 2026”: https://theatln.tc/DJXBANTH
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Democratic Party’s winners this week “arguably got more out of affordability than any other approach,” @dkthomp.bsky.social argues. A party that adopts that approach at the national level “is in a strong position going into 2026”: https://theatln.tc/DJXBANTH
Hard to believe this video interview—where I discuss real estate law and politics in China—has been viewed over 583,000 times in just two months. Two parents of my daughter’s school friends even sent me screenshots of it…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko25...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko25...
How to Finish the World's Tallest Abandoned Building
YouTube video by The B1M
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October 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Hard to believe this video interview—where I discuss real estate law and politics in China—has been viewed over 583,000 times in just two months. Two parents of my daughter’s school friends even sent me screenshots of it…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko25...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko25...
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"Techno-wizardry on one side and struggling villages on the other conveys valuable yet only partially accurate pictures of a complex country."
#PIPFellow @kennedychina.bsky.social and Scott Rozelle discuss China's tech rise for @foreignpolicy.com:
https://bit.ly/47kgElN
#PIPFellow @kennedychina.bsky.social and Scott Rozelle discuss China's tech rise for @foreignpolicy.com:
https://bit.ly/47kgElN
China’s Tech Obsession Is Weighing Down Its Economy
A decade of cutting-edge investment hasn’t translated into growth.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Techno-wizardry on one side and struggling villages on the other conveys valuable yet only partially accurate pictures of a complex country."
#PIPFellow @kennedychina.bsky.social and Scott Rozelle discuss China's tech rise for @foreignpolicy.com:
https://bit.ly/47kgElN
#PIPFellow @kennedychina.bsky.social and Scott Rozelle discuss China's tech rise for @foreignpolicy.com:
https://bit.ly/47kgElN
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No one in America likes their HOA. However, according to @shitongqiao.bsky.social, HOAs are an important site of actually existing democracy in China that depend on a strong state while potentially threatening it. Alice Liu asks him how this could be.
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The Democracy of HOAs (Seriously) w/ Shitong Qiao
One of the most odious sources of small scale authoritarianism in America is a site of actually existing democracy in China
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October 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
No one in America likes their HOA. However, according to @shitongqiao.bsky.social, HOAs are an important site of actually existing democracy in China that depend on a strong state while potentially threatening it. Alice Liu asks him how this could be.
open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p...
open.substack.com/pub/uscnpm/p...
Interesting. A similar trend has been happening to their Chinese offices too... Seems that something more fundamental about the U.S. legal market is going on.
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Interesting. A similar trend has been happening to their Chinese offices too... Seems that something more fundamental about the U.S. legal market is going on.
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It's out!
"Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition"
Published in @nyulawreview.bsky.social, with coauthors Justin Cole and Alaa Hachem.
You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition"
Published in @nyulawreview.bsky.social, with coauthors Justin Cole and Alaa Hachem.
You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition - NYU Law Review
The last several years have been marked by contentious disputes about which governments represent the states of Venezuela, Libya, Yemen, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and Niger. Such disputes are far from idl...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's out!
"Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition"
Published in @nyulawreview.bsky.social, with coauthors Justin Cole and Alaa Hachem.
You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Recognition Rules: The Case for a New International Law of Government Recognition"
Published in @nyulawreview.bsky.social, with coauthors Justin Cole and Alaa Hachem.
You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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@ncuscr.bsky.social is delighted to announce the twenty fellows who make up the ninth cohort of our Public Intellectuals Program.
Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows:
www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...
Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows:
www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...
Twenty Leading China Specialists Selected for Ninth Round of Public Intellectuals Program
The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is pleased to announce the ninth round of fellows in its Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), generously funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@ncuscr.bsky.social is delighted to announce the twenty fellows who make up the ninth cohort of our Public Intellectuals Program.
Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows:
www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...
Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows:
www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...
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Even in the rarefied world of luxury real estate, professional hockey player-turned-waste management billionaire Patrick Dovigi stands out for his ability to write big checks and trade multimillion-dollar homes like chess pieces.
The Waste Management Billionaire Setting Real-Estate Records for Fun
Patrick Dovigi has made a hobby out of purchasing some of the country’s priciest properties, and then selling them for even higher prices. ‘I’m trash by day and luxury properties by night.’
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August 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Even in the rarefied world of luxury real estate, professional hockey player-turned-waste management billionaire Patrick Dovigi stands out for his ability to write big checks and trade multimillion-dollar homes like chess pieces.
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“Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World
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July 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
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In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
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Being the top-ranked golfer in the world comes with a lot of expectations, but Scottie Scheffler revealed Tuesday there was one place where that weight became unbearable: his Venmo account.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Being the top-ranked golfer in the world comes with a lot of expectations, but Scottie Scheffler revealed Tuesday there was one place where that weight became unbearable: his Venmo account.
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Grateful to Jed (Purdy!) and The LPE Blog for this book interview, including a critique and response regarding the relationship between property and democracy. lpeproject.org/blog/the-aut...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Grateful to Jed (Purdy!) and The LPE Blog for this book interview, including a critique and response regarding the relationship between property and democracy. lpeproject.org/blog/the-aut...
Happy to chair the selection committee. Please spread the news!
🚨🚨🚨AsianJLS-ALSA Graduate Student Paper Competition is back now!
The CfP due will be 31 July 2025.
For more details, check the link below.
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The CfP due will be 31 July 2025.
For more details, check the link below.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
AsianJLS Graduate Student Paper Competition
Launched in 2021.
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April 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy to chair the selection committee. Please spread the news!
Homeowners' associations sound pretty cool, at least in China! Very grateful for this deeply engaging conversation with Prof. Rick Hills about my new book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpun....
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (book talk)
YouTube video by U.S. - Asia Law Institute NYU
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April 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Homeowners' associations sound pretty cool, at least in China! Very grateful for this deeply engaging conversation with Prof. Rick Hills about my new book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpun....
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Junior faculty in law and STEM fields --
Call for Papers
Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, September 26-27, 2025
Electronic submissions should be made here: web.cvent.com/event/80992b.... The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.
Call for Papers
Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, September 26-27, 2025
Electronic submissions should be made here: web.cvent.com/event/80992b.... The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.
web.cvent.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Junior faculty in law and STEM fields --
Call for Papers
Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, September 26-27, 2025
Electronic submissions should be made here: web.cvent.com/event/80992b.... The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.
Call for Papers
Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, September 26-27, 2025
Electronic submissions should be made here: web.cvent.com/event/80992b.... The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.
Nervous and excited about my book talks at Duke, the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Columbia, McGill, NYU, Penn, Stanford, and Yale. If you’re not in any of these places, you can join online via the Harvard-MIT Urban China Series. Hope to see some of you there!
March 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Nervous and excited about my book talks at Duke, the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Columbia, McGill, NYU, Penn, Stanford, and Yale. If you’re not in any of these places, you can join online via the Harvard-MIT Urban China Series. Hope to see some of you there!
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The Authoritarian Commons by Shitong Qiao
"Documents and insightfully analyzes how the development of homeowners’ associations (HoAs) in China generated an ongoing democratic revolution in hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods."
Out Now #LawSky
"Documents and insightfully analyzes how the development of homeowners’ associations (HoAs) in China generated an ongoing democratic revolution in hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods."
Out Now #LawSky
The Authoritarian Commons
Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - The Authoritarian Commons
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March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Authoritarian Commons by Shitong Qiao
"Documents and insightfully analyzes how the development of homeowners’ associations (HoAs) in China generated an ongoing democratic revolution in hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods."
Out Now #LawSky
"Documents and insightfully analyzes how the development of homeowners’ associations (HoAs) in China generated an ongoing democratic revolution in hundreds of thousands of neighborhoods."
Out Now #LawSky
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Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants
Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants, a first under 2019 state law
An Illinois circuit court judge ordered a Chicago landlord last month to pay $80,000 to former tenants after threatening to call ICE on them during a verbal dispute in June of 2020, according to co…
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March 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80,000 for threatening to call ICE on tenants
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YIMBYism is not just Truth and Justice but also the American Way, as @profschleich.bsky.social and I argue here.
🚨🚨New paper!! 🚨🚨
@rickhills.bsky.social and I have a new paper out, forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, "How the Gentry Won: Property Law's Embrace of Stasis." We also have an essay
@niskanencenter.bsky.social based on the paper. www.niskanencenter.org/yimbyism-is-...
@rickhills.bsky.social and I have a new paper out, forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, "How the Gentry Won: Property Law's Embrace of Stasis." We also have an essay
@niskanencenter.bsky.social based on the paper. www.niskanencenter.org/yimbyism-is-...
YIMBYism is an American legal tradition. Here’s how to revive it. - Niskanen Center
When “YIMBYs” first appeared on the scene, it appeared to many as though they had come out of the blue. But it turns out YIMBYism is part of a long American tradition.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
YIMBYism is not just Truth and Justice but also the American Way, as @profschleich.bsky.social and I argue here.
Another title for the paper we considered was "The Origin of Communities in Authoritarian Cities"...
Communities built on #PoliticalTrust: Theory and evidence from #China by Yu Zeng and Shitong Qiao.
Read the paper in our February issue:
https://buff.ly/4hL48zm
#HomeownersAssociation
Read the paper in our February issue:
https://buff.ly/4hL48zm
#HomeownersAssociation
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Another title for the paper we considered was "The Origin of Communities in Authoritarian Cities"...
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New #BookReview forum discussing "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" featuring an author response from Michele Lancione
https://buff.ly/4kdbeyH
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4kdbeyH
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New #BookReview forum discussing "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" featuring an author response from Michele Lancione
https://buff.ly/4kdbeyH
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4kdbeyH
@colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
Thrilled to see my book The Authoritarian Commons featured alongside the amazing works of my Duke colleagues. It’s inspiring to be part of such a vibrant and productive academic community!
Defending due process - out in just a week. Check out these other wonderful new books by my colleagues at Duke
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From Philosophy to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Duke Authors Cover Big Topics | Duke Today
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January 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Thrilled to see my book The Authoritarian Commons featured alongside the amazing works of my Duke colleagues. It’s inspiring to be part of such a vibrant and productive academic community!
"With its prevalent focus on formal institutions and norms in constitutional orders, the comparative turn may unwittingly limit studies of the constitutional phenomenon."
Kuo on Comparative Constitutional Studies, https://buff.ly/4h1Jn2o - Ming-Sung Kuo (University of Warwick - School of Law) has posted Four Matters of Interpretation: The Constitutional Phenomenon in Comparative Studies (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Forthcoming)) on SSRN.
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January 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"With its prevalent focus on formal institutions and norms in constitutional orders, the comparative turn may unwittingly limit studies of the constitutional phenomenon."