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Dr Wei Shi is Reader in Law in Bangor University, the United Kingdom. Having spent five years working as a judge in a court in Shandong Provence in the late 1980s following the completion of his undergraduate studies, he returned to academia and obtained his Masters degree in law in Renmin University of China, Beijing. He then took up a lectureship at the Law School of Shandong University, and taught there until 2000. Under the auspice of the EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme, he worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law from 2000 to 2001 before embarking on his Ph.D. in International Law at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His Ph.D. addresses the multifaceted issues of intellectual property rights enforcement in the world trading system from EU-China perspective.
Wei is specialised in the area of international trade law, international intellectual property law, intellectual property and development, and private international law in a commercial context. His work has appeared in the leading international peer reviewed journals, such as American Business Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Wisconsin International Law Journal and North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation. His work has been cited by some leading law journals such as European Intellectual Property Review, UC Davis Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, and Columbia Journal of Asian Law. He serves as a regular referee for such publishers and journals as Routledge and Asian Journal of Communications.
Wei serves as the Director of the Confucius Institute at Bangor University, the first Confucius Institute in the world with distinctive Legal flavour. He is also a Fellow of Cambridge Overseas Society, Member of the International Law Association (British Branch), Member of the Society of Legal Scholars, and Council Member of the Chinese Society of Private International Law.