Dr Jing Wang

Jing Wang specialises in Antitrust / Competition Law teaching and research at the University of Leicester, where she teaches International Competition Law on the LLM. Her research is published in leading international journals Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, World Competition, Fordham International Law Journal, amongst others.

An active international conference speaker, Jing’s research examines two major international antitrust themes which affect many jurisdictions, with particular focus on comparative antitrust issues arising in the UK, EU, USA and China:

first, her research examines how traditional competition law prohibitions and regulators face increasing challenges to keep pace with direct State intervention in the economy

second, she is conducting research on how to combat anti-consumer anti-competitive practices across digital markets globally, which adversely affect consumers as well as businesses increasingly adversely impacted by the anti-competitive practices of major online platforms

A Fellow of the HEA (2018), Jing also researches how to make study of law more stimulating for students: her innovative work in this area arose out of her research funded by the Clark Foundation, leading to her development and use of animations to encourage students studying Antitrust to think more deeply about the impact of antitrust activities on societal development.
Prior to joining Leicester, Jing previously worked at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland where she taught and researched Competition Law, Contract Law and E-Commerce.

Published in top global journals such as 

• Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
• World Competition: Law and Economics Review
• Fordham International Law Journal
• Michigan State International Law Review
• European Competition Law Review 
• Global Competition Litigation Review

Jing’s major publications over recent years examine how market reforms in China interact with recently introduced competition laws, comparing with EU competition law and US antitrust law in this area to analyse whether China’s adoption of key globally accepted competition law concepts are consistent with how they are understood in the West. This followed her doctoral work (PhD, Bangor University, 2017) which focused on the question of whether market intervention and the activities of State-oriented monopolies were consistent with the protection of market competition, protection of efficiency and consumers, or whether non-competition interests are paramount.

In 2023, an extensive article co-authored by Jing (listed below) was nominated by her peers around the world to go forward as a World Finalist in the Best Academic Articles “Private Enforcement” category at the 2023 Antitrust Writing Awards, in Washington D.C., organised by world leading antitrust publisher Concurrences and George Washington University.

• Cahill, D. & Wang, J., ‘Addressing Legitimacy Concerns in Antitrust Private Litigation involving China’s State-Owned Enterprises’ (2022) 45(1) World Competition: Law and Economics Review 75-122

Recent Publications

Wang, J. & Cahill, D., ‘Legitimacy & Effectiveness Concerns in China’s Private Antitrust Enforcement Regime: A Comparative Analysis with the EU & US Regimes’ (2022) Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 1-37 (Epub: jnac029, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaenfo/jnac029, published on 13 December 2022) 

Cahill, D. & Wang, J., ‘Addressing Legitimacy Concerns in Antitrust Private Litigation involving China’s State-Owned Enterprises’ (2022) 45(1) World Competition: Law and Economics Review 75-122

Wang, J., ‘Competition Neutrality in Courts: Can China’s Anti-Monopoly Law 2022 ensure the supremacy of competition law in antitrust private litigation involving State-Owned Enterprises?’ 2022 15(4) Global Competition Litigation Review 132-138 

Wang, J. & Clifford, G., ‘The 2007 Anti-Monopoly Law of China Facing Efficacy Challenges from the Ongoing Mixed-Ownership Reform’ (2022) 43(2) European Competition Law Review 61-73 

Cahill, D. & Wang, J., ‘How Competition Ideals Are Emasculated in Key Industries in China, and Pathways to Reform’ (2021) 44(3) Fordham International Law Journal 609-670 (Lead article)

Wang, J., ‘Competition Law & E-Commerce: Change is coming?’ (2021) 171(7930) New Law Journal 9-10

Chen, N., Burns, K. & Wang, J., ‘Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? – Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China’ in Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker & Keith Hollinshead (eds), Tourism Paradoxes: Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges (Channel View Publications 2021) Chapter 5 (pp 75-96)

A full publication list can be found on ORCID: Dr Jing Wang (0000-0002-9180-7525)  

• Contract Law (Undergraduate)
• EU Law (Undergraduate)
• International Competition Law (Postgraduate) 

Jing conducts teaching-led research on how to make study of law more stimulating for students: her innovative work in this area arose out of her research funded by the Clark Foundation, leading to her development and use of animations to encourage students studying Antitrust to think more deeply about the impact of antitrust activities on societal development.

At the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where Jing was a member of Faculty prior to joining Leicester, she was Postgraduate Course Leader for the LLM in International Commercial Law. 

State intervention in government-oriented economies, and gatekeepers anti-consumer anti-competitive practices in digital markets.

• Wang, J., ‘Online Commercial Harm: how consumers have been manipulated’ (10 December 2021, Strathclyde Law School Blog) available online

Recent Conference Papers

The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) 2023 Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, June 27-30, 2023

• ‘Let’s Go Digital: Animations in Contract and Competition Law Storytelling’

The International Conference on Emerging Legal Issues, Soran University, Kurdistan, March 8-9, 2023

• ‘Personal Data Privacy vs Public Interest: Covid-19 Brings a Data Protection Policy Rethink’
• ‘Convergence in approaches taken by both East & West to tackle Digital Platforms Anti-Competitive Practices’

Research Workshops, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, August 3-6, 2022

• ‘US & EU Antitrust Investigations into Major Digital Corporations Antitrust Activities’
• ‘Attempting Antitrust Enforcement in China: Issues facing Citizens & Corporations – Comparative Perspectives with EU & US’

The International Meeting on Law and Society 2022, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-16, 2022

• ‘Prevent Market Manipulation: East and West Open a Common Front against Digital Platforms Anti-Competitive Practices’
• ‘Legitimacy & Effectiveness Concerns arising in Private Antitrust Litigation involving SOEs in China’

The 34th SASE Annual Conference: Fractious Connections, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 9-11, 2022

• ‘Citizens and Antitrust Violations’

The 19th Asian Law Institute Conference 2022, the National University of Tokyo, Japan, May 28-29, 2022

• ‘Sustainability of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law in the Digital Era: An observation on the ‘choosing one from two’ jurisprudence from China’

The 15th Annual European China Law Studies Association Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, September 24-26, 2021

• ‘Frustration of Package Holiday Contracts Caused by COVID-19’

The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Asian Law & Society, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, September 17-18, 2021

• ‘Achieving the promise through amendment? The (in)effectiveness of the Anti-Monopoly Law of China 2007’

The International Meeting on Law and Society 2021, Chicago, USA, May 27-30, 2021

• ‘China’s Fair-Competition Review System: A Symbolic Movement or an Effective Improvement?’

Full list of Jing’s Conference Papers can be found on ORCID: Dr Jing Wang (0000-0002-9180-7525)