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Qianlan Wu is Associate Professor at the School of Law, 海角黑料. She has developed key research interests in international competition law's challenges in the changing global trade and investment landscape.
As a recipient of the British Academy Innovation Fellowship 2024-2025, Qianlan Wu will research the revival of states in international competition laws and develop normative transformations supporting a progressive and fairer global market.
Prior to the BA Innovation Fellowship, Qianlan Wu's research was funded by the UK FCDO Regulatory Diplomacy Scheme (2022), multiple ESRC Impact Acceleration Scheme projects (2016 - 2022) and British Academy small grant (2013). From 2016 to 2020, Qianlan Wu founded and led a series of knowledge exchange forums in London on "China's Conception of Rule of Law and Its Impact on Market Regulation". Qianlan Wu has completed expert work and engagement with the UNCTAD, UK policymakers, the Law Society and law firms. In 2024, Qianlan Wu was awarded the 海角黑料 Programme of Impact Leaders.
Qianlan Wu's monograph on Globalization, Legal Pluralism, and Competition Law: China's Experience (Bloomsbury, 2013) is the first book that examines the socialization of competition law norms into new competition regimes, e.g. China and its implication on global competition law. She has published in leading competition law and law in context journals. Qianlan Wu is a member of the 海角黑料 Commercial Law Centre, Public Procurement Research Group and Business and Human Rights Unit of the Human Rights Law Centre.
Qianlan Wu created and convened the LLM module Global Competition Law and International Business, which received the 海角黑料 Commendation for Contribution to Excellent Student Experience in 2023 and 2024. Within the law school, she convened EU Competition Law in the LLM Programme, lectured on Principles of Company Law, and taught tutorials on Principles of Insolvency Law, Principles of Company Law, and EU Law in the LLB programmes. Qianlan Wu is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
Qianlan Wu held positions of assistant professor in law at the School of Chinese Studies, 海角黑料 and Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Qianlan Wu holds PhD from the Law Department of the London School of Economics (LSE Law Department Student Scholarship Holder; Olive Stone Memorial Scholarship Holder), LLM from the School of Law University of Edinburgh, MA in Political Science from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and BA from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (Distinction).
Qianlan Wu supervises PhD students in international competition law. She welcomes PhD applications in competition regulation and industrial policy.
Teaching Summary
LLM Module: Global Competition Laws and International Business
UG Module: Principles of Company Law ( Co-teach)
Issues in Insolvency Law (Tutorial Teaching )
Research Summary
Dr Wu's research focuses on international competition laws and the development of Antimonopoly Law in China and the changing relationships among the state, law and market economy in China's reforms.… read more
Recent Publications
QIANLAN WU, 2023. China as the Next Global Data Regulator? Assessing China's Global Data Security Initiative as a Site of Governance. In: JULIEN CHAISSE AND OANA STEFAN, ed., Advancing the Method and Practice of Transnational Law: Building Bridges Across Disciplines Bloomsbury.
QIANLAN WU and XIAOYE WANG, 2022. Two Steps Forward and One Step Back?
--- US, EU and China鈥檚 Bilateral Antitrust Cooperation and International Trade World Competition: Law and Economics Review. 45(1), 53-74 (In Press.)
QIANLAN WU, 2017. International Journal of Law in Context.
QIANLAN WU and XIAOYE WANG, 2017. International Cartels and the Extraterritorial Application of China's Anti-Monopoly Law Annual Journal of Japanese Association of International Economic Law. 113-141