She is a specialist in housing law, land use regulation and positive rights. Her scholarship focuses on the legal regulation on welfare administration in China. Professor Ling’s recent articles have included analyses of delegation principles in China’s real estate regulation and the legal aspects of housing subsidies. She teaches Administrative Law and Real Estate Law for undergraduate and graduate students. She was invited to advise administrative legislature on affordable housing ordinance and real estate law.Prior to joining the faculty at ECNU, Professor Ling graduated with a doctorate in law from Zhejiang University, where she received a scholarship from the Japan Foundation to visit Tokyo University’s School of Law for one year. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the right to housing and public housing legal system in Japan.