Cheng-Yi Huang is an Assistant Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica. He received his J.S.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. His J.S.D. dissertation received Honorable Mention to the Best Dissertation Award by the Law & Society Association in 2010. He also won the Graduate Students Paper Competition by the American Bar Foundation in 2007. The award winning article has been published in Law & Social Inquiry. He is one of the authors of the path-breaking COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW edited by Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter Lindseth. Professor Huang also served as president of the North American Taiwan Studies Association from 2007 to 2008. He has constantly presented papers and served as a discussant at conferences of the Law & Society Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Midwest Political Science Association, among others. His main research interests focus on comparative administrative law, environmental law, happiness research, judicial politics, and constitutional law. In addition to his scholarly work, he is also a longtime human rights advocate and a frequent commentator on newspapers in Taiwan. He is also an award-winning novelist. For further information, please contact him at chengyi@sinica.edu.tw or visit his website: http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/chengyi/.