# Author announcements, invitations and reading choices

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## Concise author announcement

My book, *Insurance-Backed Offshore Liquidity: Financial Law, Trust Governance and Regulatory Visibility at the PRC-Hong Kong Interface*, was published open access by University of Groningen Press on 6 November 2026. It examines insurance, offshore credit, trust and company governance through doctrinal analysis and constructed transaction files. I hope colleagues will find it useful for research, teaching and discussion. A separate teaching companion provides seminar plans, practice questions, evidence games and lecture slides.

[Read the book](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/300) · [Explore the official companion](https://www.alberttansinhon.com/ibol/)

## Library and subject-guide blurb

Albert Tan Sin Hon's *Insurance-Backed Offshore Liquidity: Financial Law, Trust Governance and Regulatory Visibility at the PRC-Hong Kong Interface* (University of Groningen Press, 2026) examines the legal connections between insurance, secured credit, trust and company governance, and institutional information. Its doctrinal and comparative analysis uses constructed transaction files. The publisher provides the full PDF open access under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Potential audiences include postgraduate law students and researchers in financial law, trusts and Greater China law. A separate author-commissioned teaching companion is available; it is AI-assisted and has not been reviewed by the publisher.

**DOI:** [10.21827/6ac3948159a9e](https://doi.org/10.21827/6ac3948159a9e). **ePDF ISBN:** 9789403431925. **Print ISBN:** 9789403431918.

[Publisher record and full text](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/300) · [Citation exports and library packet](../library-kit.md) · [Official teaching companion](https://www.alberttansinhon.com/ibol/)

## Course-adoption invitation

**Subject: Open-access reading and teaching resources for financial law and trusts**

Dear colleague,

I am writing to introduce my open-access book, *Insurance-Backed Offshore Liquidity*, published by University of Groningen Press in 2026. It considers insurance, offshore credit, trust and company governance, and regulatory visibility at the PRC-Hong Kong interface.

If it fits your teaching, I would be glad for you to consider a chapter or short reading for your course. The reading choices below offer focused starting points in legal method, trust governance and institutional information. A separate companion includes seminar plans, practice questions, evidence games and lecture slides. Its original teaching materials are available under CC BY 4.0; the book itself is published under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The companion is an AI-assisted supplement commissioned by me and has not been reviewed by the publisher. I would welcome critical comments on its usefulness for your students.

With best wishes,

Albert Tan Sin Hon

[Publisher's open-access edition](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/300) · [Official teaching resources](https://www.alberttansinhon.com/ibol/) · [Teaching pathways](teaching-pathways.md)

## Research seminar proposal

**Subject: Research seminar proposal: insurance, offshore credit and legal visibility**

Dear colleague,

My book, *Insurance-Backed Offshore Liquidity: Financial Law, Trust Governance and Regulatory Visibility at the PRC-Hong Kong Interface*, was published open access by University of Groningen Press on 6 November 2026.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss it with your research group. The book examines how policy rights, offshore credit, trust and company governance, and institutional information connect within a transaction. It asks which legal rule gives an established fact a consequence, and whether the institution responsible for a decision can obtain and use the evidence it needs.

A seminar could focus on legal method, trust governance or financial regulation. I have suggested short readings below so that participants can engage without reading the whole book. I would particularly value discussion of the method's limits and of competing explanations. The analysis is doctrinal and uses constructed transaction files; it does not establish the prevalence of the arrangements described.

If this would fit your programme, I would be pleased to discuss a suitable format.

With best wishes,

Albert Tan Sin Hon

[Read the open-access book](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/book/300) · [Official teaching companion](https://www.alberttansinhon.com/ibol/)

## Proposed seminar description

**Title: Following the transaction: rights, governance and institutional information**

An insurance policy can support credit while the policyholder, borrower, trustee and company occupy distinct legal positions. This proposed seminar examines how a lawyer can connect those positions without assuming that economic continuity establishes ownership, control or liability. A second question concerns institutional information: who holds the relevant records, through which lawful route can another institution obtain them, and for what decision may it use them? Discussion draws on the book's method and constructed files. Participants can test an inference, identify the rule and evidence it requires, and explain where a defensible conclusion must remain open.

**Possible formats, subject to agreement:** a 45-minute research seminar with 20 minutes of presentation and 25 minutes of discussion, or a 90-minute reading group with a short introduction, small-group work and plenary discussion. These are proposals, not scheduled events or commitments about availability.

## Choose one short reading

Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the publisher's edition. PDF viewer page numbers are two higher. Read the specified section on a shared boundary page; the neighbouring section is optional. The links open the publisher's full, unmodified PDF at the starting page where the reader supports page fragments.

| Focus | Reading | Discussion question | Companion extension |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Legal method | Sections 1.2–1.3, printed pp. 32–35, PDF pp. 34–37. [Start reading](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/download/300/584/1875#page=34). | A policy supports a company's borrowing. What additional premise would be needed to conclude that the policyholder owns the loan proceeds? | [Reading a transaction across legal boundaries](../lessons/01.md) |
| Trust governance | Section 4.1, printed pp. 130–132, PDF pp. 132–134, including Figure 4.1 and Table 4.1. [Start reading](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/download/300/584/1875#page=132). | If the trustee holds company shares, which instrument and legal rule would establish a power over a policy held by someone else? | [Identifying trust property and authority](../lessons/04.md) |
| Institutional information | Section 6.3, printed pp. 197–199, PDF pp. 199–201, including Table 6.1. [Start reading](https://books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/download/300/584/1875#page=199). | An institution possesses an accurate document. What further inquiry determines whether it may use that document for a different decision? | [Who can assemble the decision file?](../lessons/06.md) |

The questions are original discussion prompts. No particular answer, student performance or audience response is claimed. For a full session, the linked companion lessons supply learning goals, fictional exercises and facilitator commentary. A host can choose one route rather than assigning all three readings.

## Reading group invitation

I would be glad if colleagues working on financial law, trusts or comparative legal method wished to discuss a short section of my new open-access book, *Insurance-Backed Offshore Liquidity*. The readings above offer three possible starting points. Each invites a focused question about the relation between a transaction's economic history, its legal positions and the evidence available to a decision-maker. Critical responses and alternative approaches would be most welcome.

The [publisher's edition](https://doi.org/10.21827/6ac3948159a9e) is freely available. Separate [teaching resources](https://www.alberttansinhon.com/ibol/) include seminar plans and practice activities.

## Source and reuse notes

The book's legal cut-off is 1 August 2026, except where its text states otherwise. These invitations describe its analysis, not an update on present law. Publication details and reading boundaries were checked against the publisher's edition on 7 November 2026.

The book is licensed under **CC BY-NC-ND 4.0**. Link readers to the publisher's edition. These original invitation drafts and the separate original teaching resources are licensed under **CC BY 4.0**. The AI-assisted companion was commissioned by the author and has not been reviewed by the publisher. See the [rights record](../RIGHTS.md) and [library packet](../library-kit.md).