Jane K. Winn

  • Professor of Law

Contact

Phone: (206) 543-4326
Email: jkwinn1@u.washington.edu

Jane Winn

Education

B.S.1980, Queen Mary College, University of London J.D. 1987, Harvard University

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise

Asian Law — Banking Law — Comparative Law — Contracts — Cyber Law — E-Commerce — Privacy

Recent Courses

Course Number Course Name
LAW A 510 Sales
LAW A 578 International Business Transactions
LAW B 536 Drafting Business Documents
LAW E 507 Access To Justice Seminar

Selected Publications

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Professor Winn, of the Center for Advanced Study & Research on Innovation Policy and a Fulbright Scholar, is a leading international authority on electronic commerce law as well as regulatory governance issues arising from technology innovation in global markets. She joined the faculty in 2002. Her current research interests include electronic commerce law and governance developments in the United States, the European Union, India, and China. She is coauthor of Law of Electronic Commerce and the casebook Electronic Commerce.

On leave 2016-2017 Fulbright Research Grant:  Cross-Strait Digital Ties:  China-Taiwan Electronic Commerce, Hsinchu, Taiwan and Hangzhou, China

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews


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Professional Publications


  • Speaker, "From Regulation by Enforcement to Pragmatic Governance in American Administrative Law: Case Studies of the Role of Law in Digital Transformation," Conference on Discretionary Justice in the Digitalized Age, Chinese University of Politics and Law (July 5, 2025)
  • Speaker, "Rise of Pragmatic Governance in China’s Regulation of FinTech Innovation," China-America Legal Scholars Dialogue, Singhua University School of Law and University of Pennsylvania School of Law (June 30, 2025)
  • Speaker, "Money as Information and its Implications for the Rise of China," Faculty Research Workshop, Peking University School of Transnational Law (June 19, 2025)
  • Panelist, "What Impact Will the Knowledge Governance Revolution on Have on Private International Law?” in De-Mythologizing Disruptive Technologies: Continuity and Change in Private International Law for Cross-Border Transactions in the Al Era," Annual Meeting 2025, American Society of International Law (April 17, 2025)
  • Speaker, "New Forms of Governance Require New Forms of Legitimacy," Peking University School of Law (December 18, 2024)
  • Speaker, "Has the American Legal Profession Lost Its Way?," Peking University School of Law (December 11, 2024)
  • Speaker, "The Uberization of Money and Payment," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "U.S. Law School for International Students: Critical Success Factors," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "What Impact Will “RegTech" Have on the Legal Profession?," Soochow University School of Law (January 7, 2017)
  • Speaker, "RegTech: Will It Make Lawyers Obsolete?," Research Seminar, National Tsinghua University (December 15, 2016)
  • Speaker, "The Global Frontier of FinTech Innovation: How Regulators in Europe, United States, China, India and Taiwan Are Responding," Annual Financial Law Conference, Chinese Culture University School of Law (December 14, 2016)
  • Speaker, "Can Regulation Promote Innovation? Assessing the Impact of ROC Payment Law Reforms on FinTech Innovators in Taiwan," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "RegTech: Promise or Peril for the Legal Profession?," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "U.S. Law School for International Students: Critical Success Factors," National Chiao Tung University School of Law (December 10, 2016)
  • Speaker, "Framework Contracts and the New Managerial Revolution," John Kidwell Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School Institute for Legal Studies and Wisconsin Contracts Group (September 16, 2016)