Dr. Nga Kit (Christy) Tang
SJD Program Graduate
Dr. Tang completed her Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree at the 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law. Her dissertation title was 鈥淐hina v. China: The Paradox in Regulating Food and Product Safety.鈥
She is passionate about the international movement of goods and people. Her research focuses on regulatory systems regarding administrative law, immigration law, international trade law, food and product safety law, financial regulations, and the rule of law development of legal frameworks, administrative settings, economic systems, political structures, and legal traditions.
Dr. Tang鈥檚 articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law and Washington International Law Journal. In May 2016, her paper entitled: The WTO鈥檚 Impact on China: A Battle of Administrative Review Settings between Internal and External Regulatory Frameworks was on the Social Science Research Network鈥檚 Top Ten download list for three topics: (1) WTO Law; (2) Politics of the WTO; and (3) Authoritarian/Controlled Economics. In 2007, her paper,听Trade in Financial Services: Balancing International Trade Law and International Financial Regulations, received the Highest-Grade Designation in a seminar at the Washington College of Law.
Previously, Dr. Tang served as a Research Assistant for Professor Daniel Magraw of Johns Hopkins University SAIS and a Dean鈥檚 Fellow for Professor Padideh Ala鈥檌. She has been a Contributor to the Women, Business and the Law Reports of the World Bank since 2014. She was also a Reviewer for the Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law and an Invited Presenter for seminars on Comparative Law, Law and Social Sciences, and International Legal Studies Program at 国产小呦女. Prior to legal study, she participated in international trade projects, working with vendors in China, Japan, Vietnam, and Saipan and enterprises in Australia, the EU, the Middle East, and the United States.
Growing up in Hong Kong, studying in the United States, and living in Canada, she learned across various jurisdictions, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Being a registered lawyer in Ontario, Canada and the State of New York, the United States, she is practicing Canadian and U.S. immigration law.
She is fluent in English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin). Her e-mail address is听christynktang@gmail.com.
Degrees & Universities
S.J.D., 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law.
LL.M., International Legal Studies Program, Specialization: International Business Law, 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law.
LL.M. with Distinction, City University of Hong Kong.
LL.B., University of London, United Kingdom.
M.B.A., University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Areas of Specialization
Regulatory Systems
Chinese Law
Legal Traditions
Comparative Law
International Business Law
International Economic Law
International Environmental Law
Publications
Nga Kit 鈥楥hristy鈥 Tang, Greater Uniformity and Centralization: The Regulatory Development of the Chinese Food and Product Safety under the WTO, WASH. INT鈥橪 L.J. (forthcoming Fall 2018), available at .
Nga Kit 鈥楥hristy鈥 Tang, The WTO鈥檚 Impact on China: A Battle of Administrative Review Settings between Internal and External Regulatory Frameworks, 10 VIENNA J. INT鈥橪 CONSTITUTIONAL L. 251 (2016), available at and .
Nga Kit Tang, China v. China: The Paradox in Regulating Food and Product Safety (May 9, 2014) (unpublished S.J.D. dissertation, 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law) (on file with Pence Law Library 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law), available at .
Nga Kit 鈥楥hristy鈥 Tang,听Greater Uniformity and Centralization: The Regulatory Development of the Chinese Food and Product Safety under the WTO, WASH. INT鈥橪 L.J. 65 (2019),听available at .
Nga Kit 鈥楥hristy鈥 Tang,听The WTO鈥檚 Impact on China: A Battle of Administrative Review Settings between Internal and External Regulatory Frameworks, 10 VIENNA J. INT鈥橪 CONSTITUTIONAL L. 251 (2016),听available at听听and听.
Nga Kit Tang, China v. China: The Paradox in Regulating Food and Product Safety (May 9, 2014) (unpublished S.J.D. dissertation, 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law) (on file with Pence Law Library 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law),听available at.