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Dr Alison Lui

School of Law

Faculty of Business and Law

Email: A.Lui@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3288

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Alison is a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law and the Associate Dean (Global Engagement) for the Faculty of Business and Law. She is joint Deputy Head of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice. Holding awards for academic leadership, research and teaching, she is a strategic and student centered higher education leader. Alison is committed to experiential education and research informed teaching. In her senior management role as Associate Dean Global Engagement, Alison is passionate in developing the three pillars of internationalisation: (1) Collaborative partnerships; (2) International student recruitment and (3) Student mobility. She strongly believes in developing students into global citizens and has won a LJMU Teaching Excellence Award for her work on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning).

She is the module leader for Intellectual Property (level 6) and Employment Law (level 6) on the LL.B. Alison supervises students on the LL.B, LL.M and PhD levels. She has externally examined and successfully supervised PhD theses.

An active researcher and joint Deputy Head of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice, Alison is a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, Max Planck Fellow; Inner Temple Associate Academic Fellow; Churchill Fellow and LJMU Early Career Fellow. She has won research awards from Research England, the British Council, Society of Legal Scholars, the Honourable Society of Inner Temple and several LJMU research grants.

Alison has published a monograph and an edited book with Routledge, various book chapters and many peer reviewed articles in top journals such as the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Information and Communications Technology Law, Journal of Banking Regulation and Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. In particular, her monograph is listed as one of the best Banking Law books and one of the best selling Banking Law books of all time: https://www.routledge.com/law/posts/13691. In particular, her article in 2018 on Artificial Intelligence and augmented intelligence collaboration is extremely highly cited.

Alison has presented papers at top universities and organisations such as the World Bank; Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania; INSEAD; Max Planck Institute; Cambridge; Bristol; Warwick; the Inner Temple. Alison has been interviewed by the BBC and Indus News for her insight into Employment Law; Intellectual Property and Financial Regulation matters. In 2018 and 2019, the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Digital Currency Inquiry and the Automation and Work Inquiry accepted her written evidence. Alison has won LJMU Vice Chancellor Awards for Excellence in both Teaching and Research.

Languages

Chinese (Cantonese)
German
French
Chinese (Mandarin)

Degrees

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, LL.M (Corporate and Commercial Law)
University of Bristol, United Kingdom, LL.B (European Legal Studies)

Certifications

2012, Higher Education Academy, FHEA

Academic appointments

Consultant, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, 2023 - 2026
External Examiner, University of Leeds, 2018 - 2023
External Examiner, Cardiff University, 2017 - 2021
External Examiner, University of Northampton, 2016 - 2020
Reviewer, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2015 - present
Consultant for Employment Practice, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, 2014 - present
Chief Examiner in Employment Law, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, 2013 - 2019
External Examiner, Bar Standards Board, 2012 - 2016

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