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Dr Lingling Wei is Senior Lecturer in Business Law at Bournemouth University, specialising in intellectual-property and cyber law with a comparative focus spanning the UK, EU, and China. She leads postgraduate units in Cyber Law, International & Comparative IP Law, and Trade Mark & Copyright, while also teaching undergraduate IP Law.
Education & Qualifications
- PhD in The Legal Regulation of Ambush Marketing – Bournemouth University (2008)
- LLM in Intellectual Property Law – Bournemouth University (2003)
- CopyrightX certificate in copyright law – Harvard University (2015)
- Registered Trade Mark Attorney of China – China Trade Mark Office (1998)
Research Interests
Lingling Wei’s scholarship is anchored in two principal domains: intellectual-property law, where her expertise centres on trade-mark and design law, ambush-marketing regulation, and comparative brand-protection policy; and cyber law, where she interrogates data-protection regimes, platform-liability frameworks, and the legal challenges posed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Her work adopts socio-legal and mixed-methodological lenses, engaging industry stakeholders and policy-making bodies to translate academic insight into practical guidance.
Research Outputs & Trends
Her publications (spanning 2004–2015) demonstrate a sustained engagement with Olympic branding, ambush-marketing litigation, and European trade-mark jurisprudence, while more recent conference presentations (2014–2017) reveal a strategic pivot toward regulating internet intermediaries in China and comparative EU-China perspectives. Cross-cutting themes include the intersection of IP enforcement, cultural-heritage considerations, and global sustainability.
Grants & External Funding
- Regulating Internet Intermediaries in China: Legal and Empirical Evidence for Better Policy Making – Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), 2016–ongoing
- A Review of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Landscape in the UK – UK Intellectual Property Office, 2018
Professional Memberships
- Society of Legal Scholars (UK) – Member (2009–present)
- UK Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys – Associate Member (2009–2011)
Outreach & Capacity Building
Between 2015 and 2020 Dr Wei designed and delivered annual advanced-training programmes for the State Intellectual Property Office of China at Bournemouth University, fostering bilateral knowledge exchange on IP enforcement and policy reform.
