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Dr Qingxiu Bu

Lecturer

Degrees
LLM (Soochow University, magna cum laude)
LLM (University of Groningen)
PhD (University of Birmingham)

Contact Details
Email address q.bu@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line  (+44) 028 9097 3467                   
Room 28.204 , 28 University Square

Biography
Qingxiu Bu joined Queen’s on 1 September 2008, having previously been a lecturer in law at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University where he taught Corporate Law and Contract Law as well as an LLM module in International Corporate Governance. He has also been a visiting professor at Lund University, Sweden. He will teach Transnational Business Law, as an adjunct professor at the Centre of Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS), Georgetown University from the Fall of 2010. His research explores a diverse range of issues in company law and corporate governance, including topics in the areas of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, insolvencies and comparative corporate governance. He is currently involved in several international business law projects. These include projects on China’s cross-border bankruptcy law, on shareholder litigation via derivative actions and on third party liabilities.

Dr Bu has seven years' first-hand experience in international business and legal practice in the Middle East, USA and China and advises a number of government agencies on a range of cross-border transactions issues.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Tort
  • Equity
  • European Internal Market Law

 

Postgraduate

  • Transnational Business Law
  • International Corporate Law and Corporate Governance

 

Research
Company Law, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance Law, International Business Law

Selected Publications

'Danone v Wahaha: Who Laughs Last?' (2011) 32 (6) Business Law Review (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business) 140-147

‘Multinational Companies’ New Approach to CSR in Congo: Is the Leverage Turning to China?’
(2010) 5 International Business Law Journal (Sweet & Maxwell) 485-501

‘The Sovereign Wealth Funds: Problem or Panacea?’ (2010) 11 (5) Journal of World Investment & Trade 849-877

‘Anheuser-Busch/InBev: The Legal Implication under the AML 2008’ (2010) 31 (6) European Competition Law Review 239-247

‘Coca-Cola v. Huiyuan – Market-Economy Driven or Protectionism?’ (2010) 41 (2) International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 202-210

‘Corporate Governance, Accounting Procedures and Prevention of Insolvency’  in Rebecca Parry, Yongqian Xu and Haizheng Zhang (eds), China's New Enterprise Bankruptcy Law (Ashgate Publishing, 2010) 43-73

“The EBL 2006: Cross-Border Perspectives” (2009) 18 (3) International Insolvency Review 187-207;

“Tighter ontrol of Merger & Acquisitions (M&As)?” (2008) 19 (2) European Business Law Review 293-309

“Danone v Wahaha: If Not a War against Foreign Acquisitions, What Else? ”(2007) 21 (2) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 173-184

“Is There A Bottom Line for Foreign Acquisitions?” (2007) 25 (5) Company and Security Law Journal 335-349

“China Company Law on Derivative Actions” (2006) 5 (2) International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal 21-67

“The Indemnity Cost Order in a Derivative Action” 2006 27 (1) Company Lawyer 2-13.

Administration
Director of LLM Programmers in International Commercial Law 2010 - present
Editorial Board, Journal of Politics and Law 2011-present
School of Law, UG and PG Committees 2010-present