Professor Ting Xu

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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 876477
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Location
5NW.8.12, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Ting Xu joined the School of Law at the University of Essex in July 2020. She holds an LLB from Sun Yat-sen University and an LLM (with Distinction) and PhD from the London School of Economics. She was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Sheffield (2015-2020), a Lecturer at the School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast (2012–2015) and a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (2009–2012) on an interdisciplinary and collaborative European Research Council funded project. She is the author and editor of three books: The Revival of Private Property and Its Limits in Post-Mao China (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing, 2014), Property and Human Rights in a Global Context (edited with Jean Allain, Hart Publishing, 2015) and Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property, Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 216 (edited with Alison Clarke, Oxford University Press, 2018). In 2013, Ting was awarded a British Academy Conference Grant (with Patrick O’Brien, approximately £20,000) for organising an international conference on knowledge formation and the history of books. In 2015 she completed a project on declining diversity and the global economy funded by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (awarded in 2014, approximately € 15,000). In 2017 She completed a project 'Diversifying Ownership of Land?: Communal Property in the UK and China' funded by the British Academy International Mobility and Partnership Scheme 2014-17 (£29,971). She has established a 'communal property research network' including 41 scholars from 13 countries . In 2017 she also completed a project on the Land Rights Reform in Rural China funded by China's National Social Science Foundation (2015-2017, RMB 200,000) (as Co Investigator; PI, Professor Fengzhang Li, School of Law, Shanghai University). She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2019-2020) working on a project on 'Harold Laski and His Chinese Disciples: Using Biographical Methods to Study the Evolution of Rights in Republican China (1911-1949)' (£128,117). Ting has been appointed as a visiting professor at the School of Law, Jilin University (2015-2020) and at the Graduate School, University of International Business and Economics in China (2014-). Ting has provided consultancy to the Scottish Land Commission, Global Witness, Friends of the Earth Europe, and the European Commission. Ting's research is interdisciplinary, focusing on socio-legal aspects of comparative property law. It engages the study of comparative property law with other areas of research including human rights, international law, sociology, economic history and theory, and political economy. Her research interests are situated in the fields of property law; comparative property law; Chinese law; law, governance and development; property and human rights; socio-legal studies; comparative law; political economy; and the travel of legal and political ideas across different contexts. Ting would welcome research proposals in these areas.
Qualifications
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PhD London School of Economics, (2009)
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LLM London School of Economics, (2005)
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LLB Sun Yat-sen University, (2004)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Professor, Law, University of Essex (7/7/2020 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
research interests
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Foundations of Property Law (LW109)
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Legal Research Skills (LW254)
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Land Law (LW303)
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Xu, T., (2022). Travelling Concepts: Harold Laski’s Disciples and The Evolution of the Human Rights Idea in Republican China (1919-49). Public Law. 2022 (4), 634-655
Xu, T., (2021). Uncertainty, Ignorance and Decision-making: Looking through the Lens of Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic. Amicus Curiae. 3 (1), 10-32
Xu, T. and Gong, W., (2020). Community-based individual property rights : developing the ‘bundle of rights’ perspective in the Chinese context. Asia Pacific Law Review. 28 (1), 138-158
Xu, T., (2019). A law-and-community approach to compensation for takings of property under the European Convention on Human Rights. Legal Studies. 39 (3), 398-414
Xu, T., (2018). Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Property? A Longitudinal Analysis of Property Regime Transformation in China. Journal of Comparative Law. 12 (2), 496-517
Book chapters (2)
Xu, T., Escaping the poverty trap in China: the co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development. In: A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development. Editors: Reinert, ES. and Kvangraven, I., . Edward Elgar. 278- 304
Xu, T. and Gong, W., (2016). Communal Property Rights in International Human Rights Instruments: Implications for De Facto Expropriation. In: Property and Human Rights in a Global Context. Editors: Xu, T. and Allain, J., . Bloomsbury Publishing. 225- 246. 9781509901739
Reports and Papers (1)
Antoniou, A., Karapapa, S., Sarid, E., Woods, L. and Xu, T., (2020). Consultation on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property