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Dr Lu Wang

Dr Lu Wang

Lecturer

PhD (University of Liverpool); PhD, LLM, LLB (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Law & Justice
School of Private & Commercial Law

Dr Lu Wang is a Lecturer and core member of the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney. She has been teaching and researching in the areas of international law, international investment law and dispute resolution, international arbitration, and Chinese regulation of international business. She has published in the above areas with leading national and international journals and also engaged in a few major research projects on Chinese investment treaties. Her current research project explores interactions between State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and the investment law regime.

Lu works closely with international organisations and key actors involved in the field of international trade and investment and is affiliated expert of the Asia Pacific FDI Network. She served as a co-guest editor of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal for its first Special Focus Issue on SOE and international investment law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Lu holds two PhDs from the University of Liverpool (UK) and Xi’an Jiaotong University (China).
E-mail
lu.wang10@unsw.edu.au
Location
Law Building (F8), UNSW Sydney
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Shan W; Wang L, 2021, 'The Concept of “Investment”: Treaty Definitions and Arbitration Interpretations', in Chaisse J; Choukroune L; Jusoh S (ed.), Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy, Springer
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Wang H; Wang L, 2021, 'China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties', in Chaisse J; Choukroune L; Jusoh S (ed.), Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy, Springer
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Shan W; Wang L, 2019, 'The Definition of “Investment”: Recent Developments and Lingering Issues', in Jean K; Raouf MA (ed.), Evolution and Adaptation The Future of International Arbitration, Kluwer Law International
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Wang L, 2019, 'Chinese SOE Investments and the National Security Protection under IIAs', in Chaisse J (ed.), China's International Investment Strategy: Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy, Oxford University Press, pp. 67 - 86, https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198827450.001.0001/oso-9780198827450-chapter-5
  • Journal articles | 2022
    Wang L; Shan W, 2022, 'Force Majeure and Investment Arbitration', ICSID Review, 37, pp. 138 - 159, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siac014
    Journal articles | 2016
    Wang L; Gallagher N, 2016, 'Introduction to the Special Focus Issue on State-Owned Enterprises', ICSID REVIEW-FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW JOURNAL, 31, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siv059
    Journal articles | 2016
    Wang L; Wang J, 2016, 'Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2015', The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 4, pp. 327 - 346
    Journal articles | 2016
    Wang L, 2016, 'Non-Discrimination Treatment of State-Owned Enterprise Investors in International Investment Agreements?', ICSID REVIEW-FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW JOURNAL, 31, pp. 45 - 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siv057
    Journal articles | 2015
    Shan W; Wang L, 2015, 'The China-EU BIT and the Emerging 'Global BIT 2.0'', ICSID REVIEW-FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW JOURNAL, 30, pp. 260 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icsidreview/siu035
    Journal articles | 2015
    Wang L, 2015, 'Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2014', The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 3, pp. 390 - 407
    Journal articles | 2015
    Wang L, 2015, 'State Controlled Entities as Qualified "Investors": Implications for the Pacific Region Investment Treaty Making', Transnational Dispute Management, https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=2188
    Journal articles | 2014
    Wang L; Shan W, 2014, 'The China-EU BIT: The Emerging 'Global BIT 2.0'?', Columbia FDI Perspectives, http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2013/10/No-128-Shan-and-Wang-FINAL.pdf
    Journal articles | 2014
    Wang L, 2014, 'Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2013', The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 2, pp. 377 - 400
    Journal articles | 2013
    Wang L, 2013, 'Comparative Law Scholarship in China in 2012', The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 1, pp. 365 - 380
  • Conference Abstracts | 2025
    Wang L, 2025, 'Energy Security and Investment Protection: The Complex Case of China', in Discourses of Rule of Law: Asia's Narrative, presented at 22nd Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Annual Conference
    Conference Presentations | 2024
    Wang L, 2024, 'State-Owned Companies as Investors and Claimants in Investment Arbitration', presented at World Arbitration Update 2024 – China Insight, Beijing, 15 May 2024
    Conference Presentations | 2023
    Wang L, 2023, 'China's Approach to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Reform: Opportunities and Challenges', presented at 2023 Tsinghua-UNSW Joint Research Centre for International Commercial and Economic Law (JCICEL) Conference: Building Back Better: China’s Policy and Legal Approaches and Global Implications, 16 October 2023
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Wang L, 2023, 'RCEP and China's Investment Treaty Practice: Progressive Liberalisation and Maximised Flexibility', Singapore, presented at ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE (ASLI) ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2023, Singapore, 31 May 2023
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Wang L, 2022, 'Force Majeure in Investment Arbitration: Between Treaty and Contract Claims', presented at 2022 Tsinghua-UNSW Joint Research Centre for International Commercial and Economic Law (JCICEL) Conference, 20 October 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wang L, 2021, 'Disciplines on State-Owned Enterprises in International Investment Law', presented at 2021 Tsinghua-UNSW Joint Research Centre for International Commercial and Economic Law (JCICEL) Conference, 10 November 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wang L, 2021, 'Investment Rules in RCEP: A Chinese Perspective', presented at The RCEP and Its Implications: Opportunities and Challenges Herbert Smith Freehills CIBEL Centre Lunch Webinar, 26 February 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wang L, 2021, 'Investment Rules under RCEP: Implications for China and Beyond', presented at Asian Society of International Law 8th Biennial Conference: What place for international law in the Asian future?, 24 May 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wang L, 2021, 'Regulating SOEs under the EU-China CAI', presented at EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment in Context, 08 March 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Wang L, 2021, 'SOE Disciplines in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Re(Shaping) the International Investment Regime?', presented at Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) 2021 Global Conference: Rethinking Global Economic Governance, 07 July 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Wang L, 2020, 'FDI screening and the China‐EU investment treaty negotiation: balancing control and openness', presented at 2020 Tsinghua-UNSW Joint Research Centre for International Commercial and Economic Law (JCICEL) Conference, 21 September 2020
    Conference Abstracts | 2019
    Wang L, 2019, 'The Rise of “East-West Contest” in International Investment Law', in The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in Asia, presented at 16th Asian Law Institute (ASLI) Conference
    Conference Abstracts | 2019
    Wang L, 2019, '“East-West Contest”: A New Dimension in Shaping the International Investment Law in the 21st Century', in Rethinking International Law: Finding Common Solutions to Contemporary Civilizational Issues from an Asian Perspective, presented at Asian Society of International Law 7th Biennial Conference
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Wang L, 2018, 'Assessing the Status of State-Owned Enterprises in Investment Arbitration: From Identity to Conduct', presented at 2018 AWRN-CIBEL JOINT CONFERENCE: WTO, International Economic Law and Emerging Challenges – Asia Pacific Perspective, 17 August 2018

2021 National Social Science Fund of China Research Project: Regulations of State-Owned Enterprises in International Trade Agreements and China’s Policy Options, Co-Investigator.

2019 UNSW PVCE Digital Uplift Program: Course LAWS8365/JURD7765 Introduction to Chinese Regulation of International Business, Co-Convenor.

2015 Ministry of Commerce of China Fund Research Project: Key Issues in the US-China BIT Negotiations, Co-Investigator.

2014 National Social Science Fund of China Research Project: Key Issues in the Dispute Resolution Mechanism of the TPP Investment Chapter, Co-Investigator.

2013 Ministry of Commerce of China Fund Research Project: The Handbook of Chinese Investment Treaty Negotiation, Co-Investigator.

Excellence in (Social Science) Research Achievement Award (First Prize), China Ministry of Education, 2020.

Young Scholar Best Paper Award (First Prize), Chinese Society of International Economic Law, 2012.

Young Scholar Best Paper Award (Second Prize), Chinese Society of International Economic Law, 2015.

‘Yu Scholar’ & Yu Doctoral Scholarship, University of Liverpool, 2015-2017

China National Scholarship, China Ministry of Education, 2008 & 2013

My Teaching

 

Law in the Global Context (LAWS2270)

   Law in the Global Context (JURD7270)

   Legal Research and Writing: Stage III

   International Investment Law and Policy (LAWS3070)

   International Investment Law (LAWS8079/JURD7479)

   International Commercial Arbitration (LAWS8183/JURD7583)

   Chinese Regulation of International Business (LAWS3157/JURD7657)

   Intro to Chinese Regulation of International Business (LAWS8365/JURD7765)