Yi Lu

Senior Lecturer of Law


Email: yi.lu@stl.pku.edu.cn

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EDUCATION

  • J.S.D., YALE LAW SCHOOL

  • LL.M., YALE LAW SCHOOL

  • J.D., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW

  • J.M., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW

  • B.A., TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS


BIO

Claudia LU Yi’s research areas include administrative law, food and drug law, environmental law, labor law, risk regulation, and international trade. She has published articles on the regulation on professional consumers, labor law protection of platform workers, food safety regulation in the era of algorithms, the role of the media in risk communication during the COVID-19, the precautionary principle in China’s food safety law, China’s participation in the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, soft law challenges in the China-ASEAN food safety cooperation framework, and the impact of the 2004 EU ban on Chinese medicine. Her J.S.D. dissertation explores co-governance models in food safety regulation, proposing a conceptual framework for managing tensions between science and decision-making, and between regulation and democracy. It makes policy recommendations for establishing a co-governance framework in China.

Claudia received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School, where she was a Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center, a Research Fellow at the Global Health Justice Cooperation, a Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, and a Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. She received her J.D. and J.M. degrees from Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL), where she was a member of the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Team and the Transnational Legal Clinic. She was also a lecturer at STL and Assistant Director of the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies. She has also worked for Clifford Chance LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP, TransAsia Lawyers LLP, Shenzhen Municipality, Burger King China and Popeyes China. She has been invited as an arbitrator for the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Competition (Hong Kong) on several occasions.

Publications

•   Articles:

1.    Yi Lu, “Chinese Professional Consumers at 30: The Rise and Impending Fall,” European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1–29 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2024.66

2.    Yi Lu, “Mapping China’s Online Consumer Dispute Resolution System,” 2(1) The Boğaziçi Law Review 48-63 (2024). https://doi.org/10.69800/blr.1504556

3.    Yi Lu, “Regulating ‘Employee Sharing’ in Post-pandemic China,” Law and Development Review (2024). https://doi.org/10.1515/ldr-2024-0012

4.    Yi Lu, “Revisiting the Role of Media in Risk Communication—A Case Study on China in the COVID-19 Crisis,” Conference papers on Current Legal Issues in the Coronavirus Period (2020).

5.    Yi Lu, “Critical Thinking about the Precautionary Principle in China’s Food Safety Law,” 11(4) Frontiers of Law in China, 692-717 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3868/s050-005-016-0040-9

6.    Yi Lu, “Challenges in China-ASEAN Food Safety Cooperation Governance Through Soft Law,” 1 Peking University Transnational Law Review, 141-155 (2015).

7.    Yi Lu, “Exploring Aggressive Legalism: Is Now A Good Time to Promote This Approach in Greater Asia?,” 6(1) Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 85-123 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1515/ajle-2014-0006

8.    Yi Lu, “To Be an Aggressive but Patient Learner—Analysis of China’s Participation in Defending Anti-Dumping Challenges within the WTO Framework,” 1 Peking University Transnational Law Review, 373-419 (2013).

9.    Yi Lu, “On How to Promote Food Safety Cooperation Between the Mainland and Macao in the Context of ‘One Country, Two Systems’—On the Improvement of National Governance Capacity (论在“一国两制”背景下如何促进内地与澳门的食品安全合作——兼论国家治理能力的提升),” 2014 Cross-Strait Youth Forum on the Development of the Rule of Law (2014年两岸四地法治发展青年论坛) (2014).

10.Francis Snyder, Yi Lu & Gulrez Yazdani, “Traditional Chinese Medicine and European Union Law: Cultural Logics, Product Identities, Market Competition, Legal Rechanneling, and the Need for Global Legal and Medical Pluralism,” 2(1) Peking University Law Journal (中外法学), 130-200 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1080/20517483.2014.11424487

11.Francis Snyder & Yi Lu, “Transnational Law and the EU: Reflections from WISH in China,” 19(6) European Law Journal, 705–10 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12072

 

•  Book(s):

12.Francis Snyder & Yi Lu (eds.), L'avenir du droit transnational-The future of Transnational Law: UE, UA, Chine et les BRICS—EU, USA, China and the BRICS (Bruylant Publishers, Brussels, 2014).

•  Book chapter(s):

13. Yi Lu, “Consumer ADR in China,” in Consumer ADR Around the World (Taylor & Francis Group, 2024 forthcoming).

 

•  Translations:

14. Contributing English Translator: Ping jiang, The Vicissitudes (English edition, 2015) (Chinese edition: 江平,《沉浮与枯荣:八十自述》 (北京:法律出版社,2010) ).

15. Contributing Chinese Translator: (美)德鲁·吉尔平·福斯特(Drew Gilpin Faust)著;荣丽亚译,《创新之母》(北京:人民出版社, 2015) (English edition: Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004)).

16. Contributing Chinese Translator: (美)鲍勃·伍德拉夫著;荣丽亚译,《在瞬间:一个家庭的爱与治疗之旅》(English edition: Bob Woodruff & Lee Woodruff, In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing (Random House Publishing Group, 2007)).

17. Contributing Chinese Translator: (美)杰弗里·雷蒙(Jeffrey Lehman)著,周成刚&荣丽亚译《乐观的心—康奈尔大学校长演讲集》(北京:北京语言大学,2013) (English edition: Jeffrey Sean Lehman, An Optimistic Heart: What Great Universities Can Give Their Students … And The World (Cornell University, 2008)).

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