Dr Wei Shi is Reader in Law in Bangor University Law School, 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 PhD in International Law at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His PhD addresses the multifaceted issues of intellectual property rights enforcement in the world trading system from EU-China perspective.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities:

Wei has carried out varieties of administrative roles:

• Overseas Recruitment (mainly China)
• Personal Tutor at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels
• Director of Postgraduate Studies (PGR Lead)
• Law School Ethics Officer 
• Member of Staff-Student Committee 
• Founding Director of Bangor Confucius Institute  

Wei has heavily been involved in, and significantly contributed to, the establishment of the Confucius Institute in Bangor University, the first of this kind in the world with legal focus. Our partnership university regarding the Confucius Institute is the China University of Political Science and Law, one of the leading universities in China.

Wei currently serves as the Programme Director of LLB Law with Chinese and LLM International Intellectual Property Law. Wei has taught and is still teaching varieties of modules:

Undergraduate:

• SXL2136/SXL3136 Intellectual Property Law (Module Leader)
• SXL1112 Law of Contract (Module Leader, 2007-2010)
• SXL2131/SXL3131 Private International Law (Module Leader, 2008-2013)
• SXL1507/SXL2507 Contemporary Chinese Studies (2016-2019)
• SXL2506 Chinese Legal System (Module Leader, 2016-2019)
• SXL3113 Undergraduate Dissertation (supervisor)

Postgraduate:

• SXL4010/SXL4410 Global Trade Law (Module Leader)
• SXL4006/SXL4406 International Commercial Arbitration (Module Leader)
• SXL4004/SXL4404 Intellectual Property Law (Module Leader)
• SXL4001/SXL4401 Competition Law (Module Leader 2019-2020)
• SXL4109/SXL4119 Legal Research Methods (Module Leader 2016-2017)
• SXL4009/SXL4409 Legal Research Methods
• SXL4300 Postgraduate Dissertation (supervisor)

Wei also supervises research students. He has supervised 14 PhD students for completion (10 as primary supervisor) and is currently supervising 4 PhD students (as primary supervisor).

He has established himself as a leading scholar at the forefront of the field of international intellectual property law, which lies in the intersection of intellectual property and the global trading system. He has published widely within the above areas and has a number of other works in progress. 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, North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation, and Connecticut Journal of International Law. 

Wei’s work has been cited by some world leading law journals, for example: 

• New Political Economy (2018)
• Stanford Journal of International Law (2017)
• Chicago Kent Journal of International & Comparative Law (2016)
• Harvard International Law Journal (2015)
• New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (2014)
• American Business Law Journal (2013)
• American Journal of Comparative Law (2012)
• New York International Law Review (2011)
• Chicago Journal of International Law (2010)
• European Intellectual Property Review (2009)
• Columbia Journal of Asian Law (2008)

Wei's publication profile can be viewed here:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=yXJ8QOIAAAAJ&hl=en

Dr Shi welcomes proposals from potential research students in the following areas:

• Intellectual Property Law in a Global Context
• Intellectual Property in the Global Trading System
• Intellectual Property and Development
• Transnational Dispute Settlement involving Intellectual Property
• International Transfer of Technology 
• Intellectual Property and International Investment

2020

• PublishedThe Cat and Mouse Saga Continues: Understanding the US-China Trade War
  Shi, W., Jun 2020, In : Texas International Law Journal. 55, 2, p. 187-222
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2016

• PublishedRetrieving the Missing Ladder: Excavating Flexibility of the TRIPs Mechanism
  Shi, W., Apr 2016, In : Connecticut Journal of International Law. 31, 2, p. 217-255 40 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2014

• PublishedIntellectual Property, Innovation and the Ladder of Development: Experience of Developed Countries for China
  Shi, W., 31 Oct 2014, Innovation and Intellectual Property in China: Strategies, Contexts and Challenges. Shao, K. & Feng, X. (eds.). Cheltenham UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, p. 206-235
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• PublishedSpace for Flexibilitiy: Lessons from the European Union Harmonisation Model in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Regulation
  Shi, W. & Jiang, L., 30 Jun 2014, In : Intellectual Property Forum . 97, p. 63-69 7 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2010

• PublishedGlobalization and indigenization: legal transplant of a universal TRIPS regime in a multicultural world.
  Shi, W., 2 Aug 2010, In : American Business Law Journal. 47, 3, p. 455-507
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2008

• PublishedHarmony or Coercion? China-EU Trade Dispute Involving Intellectual Property Enforcement
  Shi, W. & Weatherley, R., 1 Jan 2008, In : Wisconsin International Law Journal. 25, 3, p. 439-490
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedIncurable or Remediable - Clues to Undoing the Gordian Knot Tied by Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in China
  Shi, W., 2008, In : University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. 30, 2, p. 541
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedIncurable or Remediable? Clues to Undoing the Gordian Knot Tied by Intellectual Property Enforcement in China
  Shi, W., 1 Jan 2008, In : Journal of International Law. 30, 2, p. 541-584
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• PublishedIntellectual Property in the Global Trading System: EU-China Perspective
  Shi, W., 1 Jan 2008, Springer.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• PublishedThe paradox of Confucian determinism: tracking the root causes of intellectual property rights problem in China
  Shi, W., 1 Jan 2008, In : John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law. 7, 3, p. 454-468
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2006

• PublishedCultural Perplexity in Intellectual Property: Is Stealing a Book an Elegant Offense?
  Shi, W., 1 Jan 2006, In : North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. 32, 1, p. 1-48
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• National Scholarship for Distinguished Overseas Doctorate Researchers ($5,000) awarded by China Scholarship Council (2004)
• Research Award for Humanities & Social science, University of Cambridge (2003)
• Cambridge Overseas Scholarship (2002)
• Fellowship of EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme (funded by European Commission) (2000)

Professional Membership

• Member, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) (since 2007) 
• Member, International Law Association (ILA, British Branch) (from 2005)
• Council, UK Chinese Law Association, UK (elected 2002)
• Council, Chinese Society of Private International Law (CCPIL), China (elected 1998)

Reviewers and Referees

• Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property (Since 2014)
• Asian Journal of Communications (since 2011)
• Routledg (since 2009)

PhD External Examiner 

• SOAS, University of London
• Northumbria University
• Cardiff University
• Aberystwyth University  
• Swansea University

Earlier Publications

• Shi, W, “The Principle of Imputation in Product Liability: A Comparative Analysis between China and the US,” 2 Journal of Shandong University [Social Science Edition] (ISSN 1001-9839), 99-108 (2000)
• Shi, W, “Towards Applicable Law of Intellectual Property,” 1 Journal of Shandong University [Social Science Edition],33-36 (2000)
• Shi, W, “Some Reflections on the Conflict of Laws in Intellectual Property,” 5 Modern Law Review [Xiandai Faxue](ISSN 1001-2397), 74-78 (1999)
• Shi, W, “The Impact of TRIPs on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in China,” Chinese Yearbook of  Private International Law & Comparative Law (ISBN 7-5036-2483-3/D), 53-64 (1998)
• Shi, W, “The Conflict of Civil & Commercial Laws Applicable to Hong Kong before and after 1997,” Central South University of Political Science & Law (ISBN 7-5006-3435-8/C), 1011-1015 (1998)
• Shi, W, “The Impact of TRIPs on China and the Countermeasures,” 3 Journal of Shandong University [Social Science Edition],  18-23 (1998)
• Shi, W, “Conflict of laws between Mainland China and Hong Kong: Some Reflections,” 5 Studies in Law and Economics [Fa Shang Yanjiu], 1-8 (1997)
• Zhang, S & Shi, W, “Private International Law in China since the Implementation of the ‘Open Door’ Policy,” Modern Private International Law (ISBN 7-307-02350-4/D), Wuhan University Press 25-36 (1997)
• Zhang, S & Shi, W, “An Overview of Private International Law in China in 1995,” 34 (1) Jurists [Fa Xue Jia] 83-85(1996)