Between Bureaucratized Markets and Marketized Bureaucracies: Health Insurance Governance in the US and China, with Yung-Cheng Lin

Global Law Workshop - Asia in Context

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Time: 2:30-3:30 pm
Venue: VH 201
Speaker: Yung-Cheng Lin, Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow
Topic: Between Bureaucratized Markets and Marketized Bureaucracies: Health Insurance Governance in the United States and China
Moderator: Cheng-chi (Kirin) Chang, Research Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute

To attend, please register here: https://forms.gle/56ddAhshHtMgZTyu8
The draft paper can be downloaded directly at the top of the RSVP form.
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This workshop series provides a forum for discussing draft papers on Asia and the law. Topics include domestic legal systems in Asia, international and transnational law involving Asia, regional laws and institutions, and the laws and policies of non-Asian countries concerning the region. Organized by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) and led by Kirin Chang, Research Scholar, the series welcomes contributions from the broader legal community.
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Yung-Cheng Lin is a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow and affiliated with the US-Asia Law Institute (USALI). His research focuses on insurance law and regulation, examining how insurance, as a social institution, is governed by and governing law, regulation, and broader institutional forces. Yung-Cheng holds both an SJD (2026) and an LLM (2023) from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law. His doctoral dissertation examines the power allocation questions that underlie regulatory format choices in the domain of insurance regulation. His scholarship has been accepted for publication in journals including the Insurance Law Review and the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law. Prior to entering academia, he practiced law in Taiwan with a focus on financial regulation and business law and once worked at Taiwan’s insurance regulatory agency.
At NYU, Yung-Cheng pursues research on the Chinese health insurance system, examining how its governance frameworks — including bureaucratic oversight and market-based mechanisms — shape structural outcomes and healthcare delivery. His work draws on comparative insights from the U.S. system to illuminate the Chinese context, and through document-based analysis of policy materials, he traces the regulatory dynamics and institutional logic embedded in these systems.