SUN Jin
孫晉
Assistant Professor
Prof. Jin Sun is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of Social Governance & Sustainable Development Lab at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and the Executive Committee of the Public Policy Research Centre at the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. He also serves as a Committee member for the Doctor of Social Science in Applied Social Science (DSSC) Programme at CUHK. His research received funding from the European Research Council, the Swiss Network for International Studies, the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and multiple research funds at CUHK. His articles have been published by the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Socio-Economic Review, and other peer-reviewed journals and collected by books at Cambridge University Press, etc. His research focuses on sociology, law, and global governance. He obtained the best article award of Political-Economy of the World-System and the distinguished article award (Honorable Mention) of Economic Sociology at the American Sociological Association. He passed the Chinese bar in Beijing and Directed Studies of Public International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law. He is also a research fellow in the Centre for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance at Tsinghua University and a fellow of restorative justice and peace-making in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
| Area/ Project Title | Open for |
| Restorative justice, responsive regulation, cyberfraud prevention & policing, economic sociology, financialization, global governance, regulatory governance, ESG/SDGs |
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
- Transnational and global sociology
- Comparative-historical sociology
- The sociology of law and global governance
Supervisees
| Area | Name of research student | Study Programme |
| Sociology, Criminology | Gu, Shiyu | Ph.D. |
| Sociology, Criminology | Su, Ruotong | Ph.D. |
| ESG/SDGs | Zhang, Ting | Doctor of Social Science |
| ESG/SDGs | Yang, Xinyun | Doctor of Social Science |
Selected Grants
| Year | Title of the Grant | Project Title |
| 2024-2027 | CUHK Strategic Research Areas & High-impact Interdisciplinary Research | “Sustainable Financialization & Restorative Governance: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Low-Carbon Participatory Initiatives/Behaviors Enabled by FinTech Superapp Platforms” |
| 2024-2027 | RGC (Co-I) | “Appeals and Inequalities in China’s Plea Leniency System” |
| 2024-2026 | RGC (Co-I) | “The relationship between boarding status and pathological internet use among Chinese rural students: an investigation of mediating and moderating social mechanisms” |
| 2023-2025 | CUHK Direct Research Grant | “A sociolegal study of Chinese environmental movements and their implications for transnational environmental governance from climate governance to ESG/SDGs” |
| 2022-2025 | CUHK start-up fund | “Transnational Orders between China and the World” |
| 2017-2022 | European Research Council (ERC) | “A Sociology of the Transnational Legal Field” |
| 2021-2022 | Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS) | “When Money Can’t Buy Food and Medicine: Global Humanitarian Governance?” |
Current Projects
| Project Title | Description |
| A sociolegal study of Chinese environmental movements and its implication for transnational environmental governance on climate, ESG and SDGs | Area: sociology of law, global governance, carbon neutrality, Greater Bay Area (GBA), ESG, SDGs, environmental movements |
| Transnational Orders between China and the World: from Modernization to Globalization | Area: China’s Modernization, Transnational Legal Orders, Global Governance |
Selected Publications
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Journals
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2025
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Sun, Jin*, and Hanzhi Yu. 2025. “The Trumpist Rationale of Global Governance in Post-Neoliberal Competitive Global Order.” Global Public Policy and Governance.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-025-00132-w |
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2025
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Sun, Jin*, Shiyu Gu, and Ruotong Su. 2025. “AI-Empowered Responsive Regulation for Preventing Future Crimes: An Empirical Inquiry into the Regulatory Pyramid to Combat Future Crimes in China and Southeast Asia.” Asian Journal of Criminology.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-025-09477-x | |
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2025
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Su, Ruotong, and Jin Sun*. 2025. “Statist but Responsive Regulation: Targeted Responsive Campaigns as Agile Governance for Tech Innovation.” Journal of Asian Public Policy.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2025.2554109 | |
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2025
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Sun, Jin, and Shiyu Gu. 2025. “Responsive Policing for Cyberfraud Prevention: An Empirical Inquiry into the Regulatory Pyramid to Protect Cyberfraud Victims in China.” Policing & Society.
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2548237 | |
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2025
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Sun, Jin, and Grégoire Mallard. 2025. “Post-Neoliberal Parallel Globalization: The Unipolar to Multipolar Transition in Transnational Financial Orders.” Socio-Economic Review.
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaf051 | |
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2024
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Mallard, Grégoire, and Jin Sun. 2024. “International Law, Security and Sanctions: A Decolonial Perspective on the Transnational Legal Order of Sanctions.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 20: 97-116.
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2023
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Chen, Ling, and Jin Sun. 2023. Trans-Governmental Normative Orders: Chinese Central-Local Relations in the Pilot Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme. Journal of Public Administration (in Chinese) 91(1): 144-160.
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2022
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Chen, Ling, Jin Sun, and Lan Xue. 2022. Algorithm Fairness and Algorithm Governance: Global Governance and Chinese Experience. China Reform (in Chinese) 423(03): 54-58.
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2022
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Mallard, Grégoire, and Jin Sun. 2022. “Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism.” American Journal of Sociology 128(1): 144-188.
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2021
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Blanchet, Karl, Grégoire Mallard, Erica Moret, and Jin Sun. 2021. “Sanctioned Countries in the Global COVID Vaccination Campaign: The Forgotten 70%.” Conflict and Health 15: 69.
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2021
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https://shs.cairn.info/revue-savoir-agir-2021-2-page-21?lang=fr | ||
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2020
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Mallard, Grégoire, Farzan Sabet, and Jin Sun. 2020. “The Humanitarian Gap in the Global Sanctions Regime: Assessing Causes, Effects and Solutions.” Global Governance 26(1): 121-153.
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Books
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2026
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Sun, Jin, and Yan Zhang. (eds). 2026. Restorative Justice, Deviance and Crimes in Chinese Societies. Palgrave Macmillan.
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(available soon)
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2025
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Sun, Jin, and Hanzhi Yu. (eds). 2025. Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from China and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
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2025
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Sun, Jin. 2025. Sustainable Financialization: Leveraging FinTech, Social Innovation and Inclusive Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Book Chapters
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2024
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Sun, Jin. 2024. “Non-Compliance and Nuclear Disarmament: The Iran Nuclear Deal.” In Christina Voigt and Caroline Foster (ed.), International Courts versus Compliance Mechanisms: Comparative Advantages in Strengthening Treaty Implementation, pp. 420-441,
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2021
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Sun, Jin. 2021. “International payment settlement in China including Macau and Hong Kong and unilateral sanctions-related disputes: sources, remedies and procedures.” In Charlotte Beaucillon (ed.), The Research Handbook on Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions, Research Handbook of International Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 322-340.
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COURSES
- SOCI 3241/UGEC 3893 Introduction to Global Sociology
- SOCI 3452 Selected Topics in Sociology II: Introduction to Global Sociology
Internal Services
Department
- Executive Director, Social Governance and Sustainable Development (SGSD) Lab
- Member, Graduate Studies Committee
- Member, Research Committee
University
- Member, Executive Committee, Public Policy Research Center, HKIAPS
Professional/Community Services
- Member, Drafting Committee, Guangdong Trade Standard Committee, ESG Standard Working Group, Hong Kong
- Committee Member, Balzan PhD Fellowships on New Horizons in Restorative Justice and Restorative Peacemaking, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
- Hong Kong Committee Member, Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum (YOCSEF), China Computer Federation (CCF)
- Advisory expert, SGS, Sustainable Supply Chain Standard Expert Group
- Harvard College Admission Interviewer, Harvard University, China
- Committee Member, China National Knowledge System of Public Administration, Global Governance Panel
- Editorial Committee (Chinese); Chief Co-Editor (English), National Official Reference Book/Textbook on Global Governance
- SDG Advisor, Ant International
Editorial Board Member
- Humanities & Social Science Communications (Q1)
Reviewer
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- American Sociological Review (Q1)
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Q2)
- Sociology Lens (aka. Journal of Historical Sociology: Q2/Q3)
- Regulation & Governance (Q1)
- Law & Society Review (Q1)
- Crime Science (Q1)
- Cogent Social Sciences (Q2)
- Deviant Behavior (Q2)
last updated on 17 Nov 2025