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DR. LU XU 徐露博士
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Dr Lu Xu teaches property law, land law, and several Chinese law courses at the Faculty of Law. Before joining CUHK in 2026, he was Senior Lecturer in Property Law at Lancaster University and Lecturer in Property Law at University of East Anglia. He has published extensively on property law and Chinese law in international journals and edited volumes. His research has received support from prestigious funders including the British Academy and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom amongst others. He has also contributed to law reform initiatives in the UK, having served as a technical adviser to both the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD (University of Strathclyde)
  • LLM in Property Law, with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
  • BA (Hons) Law & Management, 1st Class (Robert Gordon University)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Legal Professions Qualification (Ministry of Justice of PRC)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Property Law
  • Law of Trusts
  • Common Law
  • Comparative law
  • Chinese Legal System and Reforms

EXTERNALLY COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

  • Principal Investigator, ‘Critical Analysis of the Emerging Case Law System in China and Its Role in Constructing and Interpreting the “Socialist Rule of Law”’, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK), 2021-2022, GBP£34,466
  • Principal Investigator, ‘Registration Errors in Chinese Land Registration’, Fudan Scholar Programme, Fudan University, 2017, RMB27,000

  • Principal Investigator, ‘Commonhold Development in Practice’, Small Research Grants, British Academy, 2012-2014, GBP£5,619

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monograph
Chinese Legal Reforms: Transformations in a Decade (Brill 2024)
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004537125

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • ‘Rethinking China’s Emerging Case Law System: Empirical Insights and Challenges to Prevailing Assumptions’ (2025) 45 Legal Studies 554-576 https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2025.10092
  • ‘State, society and market: Interpreting the norms and dynamics of China’s AI governance’ (2025) 59 Computer Law & Security Review 106206 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106206 (with Xuechen Chen)
  • ‘Online Courts in China: A New Hybrid Model for Access to Justice’ (2025) 25 China Review 75-106
    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/250/article/955347 (with Wei Gao)
  • ‘Understanding Public Perceptions of Chinese Law and Legal System: Judicial Experiences Matter’ (2024) 22 China: An International Journal 164-181 https://doi.org/10.56159/chn.2024.a920962 (with Xiaojun Li)
  • ‘Benefit sharing in international rivers: A Q-methodology study of regional understanding and perception in Asia’ (2023) 18 PLOS One e0280625 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280625 (with Lei Xie and Qi Yu)
  • ‘Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Findings from 570 Court Cases Brought by NGOs, Public Prosecutors and Local Government’ (2022) 34 Journal of Environmental Law 53-81
    https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab029 (with Lei Xie)
  • ‘Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: A Critical Examination’, (2021) 10 Transnational Environmental Law 441-465 https://doi.org/10.1017/S2047102520000448 (with Lei Xie)
  • ‘The Changing Perspectives of Chinese Law: Socialist Rule of Law, Emerging Case Law and the Belt and Road Initiative’, (2019) 5 Chinese Journal of Global Governance 153-175
    https://doi.org/10.1163/23525207-12340042
  • ‘Updating Land Registration Law and Practice: Some Lessons from China’, in Benjamin McFarlane and Sinead Agnew (eds) Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 10 (Hart Publishing 2019) 263-281
    https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509921409.ch-015
  • ‘The New Real Property Registration Structure in China’, (2016) 5 Global Journal of Comparative Law 91-117
    https://doi.org/10.1163/2211906X-00501005
  • ‘Commonhold Developments in Practice’, in Warren Barr (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 8 (Hart Publishing 2015) 331-350 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781782257776.ch-018
  • ‘The Offside Goals Rule and English Equity’ [2014] Juridical Review 53-67
  • ‘What do we protect in land registration?’ (2013) 129 Law Quarterly Review 477-480
  • ‘The law of the tenement and real burdens: on the brink of recidivation’ [2013] Juridical Review 157-180
  • ‘Easement of Car Parking: the ouster principle is out but problems may aggravate’ [2012] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 291-306
  • ‘Impact of Apartment-Ownership Law: Reforming English and Scots Law’ in Hanri Morstert & MJ de Waal (eds) Essays in Honour of CG van der Merwe (LexisNexis 2011) 263-280
  • ‘Framework for Land Obligations: What Can be Learnt from the Scots Law of Real Burdens?’ in Susan Bright (ed) Modern Studies in Property Law Vol 6 (Hart Publishing 2011) 211-229
  • ‘Managing and maintaining flatted buildings: some Anglo-Scottish comparisons’ (2010) 14 Edinburgh Law Review 236-258
  • ‘Problems in the law of the tenement’ [2008] Juridical Review 131-141

    Other Publications

    • Anthony Beck and Lu Xu, ‘LADM: digitally transforming the land administration ecosystem’ (2024) 38(2) Geomatics Info Magazine International 38-42
    • Benjamin Mayfield and Lu Xu, ‘It’s time we let the feudal leftover of leasehold ownership expire’, The Conversation, 24 Jan 2018
    • Scottish report, in C van der Merwe (ed) European Condominium Law (Cambridge University Press 2015)
    • ‘Right of support and easements (England)’, Westlaw Insight, Oct 2014
    • ‘Right of support and servitudes (Scotland)’, Westlaw Insight, Oct 2014
    • ‘Law of the Tenement: Misunderstood and individualistic as ever’ (2011) Scots Law Times (News) 17-18

        EXTERNAL ROLES AND ACTIVITIES

        • UG and PG External Examiner, Queen’s University Belfast, 2024–
        • Member of Advisory Team on Tenement Law Reform, Scottish Law Commission, 2022–2025
        • Member of Technical Advisory Group on Commonhold, Law Commission, 2018–2020
        • UG External Examiner, Leeds University, 2017–2022
        • Fudan Scholar, Fudan University Institute of Advanced Studies, 2016–2017
        • Visiting Scholar, Shanghai Jiaotong University Koguan Law School, 2015–2016
        • Guest Lecturer, German Judicial Academy, 2012–2013

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