Senior Lecturer of Law
J.S.D., YALE LAW SCHOOL
LL.M., YALE LAW SCHOOL
J.D., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW
J.M., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW
B.A., TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
Claudia LU Yi's research areas include administrative law, food and drug law, environmental law, labor law, risk regulation, international trade, and legal issues related to China's legal reform. She has published articles on the regulation on professional consumers, labor law protection on platform workers, food safety regulation in the era of algorithm, role of the media in risk communication during the COVID-19 era, the precautionary principle in China's food safety law, China's participation in the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, soft law challenges in the China-ASEAN food safety cooperation framework, and the impact of the 2004 EU ban on Chinese medicine. Her J.S.D. dissertation explores co-governance models in the field of food safety regulation, proposes a conceptual framework for addressing tensions between science and decision-making, regulation and democracy, and makes policy recommendations for establishing a co-governance framework in China.
Claudia obtained J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School. She served as a senior researcher at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, a researcher at the Global Health Justice Cooperation, Senior Editor of Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and Senior Editor of Yale Journal of International Law. She obtained her J.D. and J.M. degrees from Peking University School of Transnational Law. She was a member of the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Team and the Transnational Legal Clinic. In addition, she has served as a lecturer at Peking University School of Transnational Law and Assistant Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, and has worked at Clifford Chance LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP, TransAsia Lawyers and Shenzhen Municipal Government. She was invited as an arbitrator several times for the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Competition (Hong Kong).