Reassess the Law and Ethics of Heritable Genome Editing Interventions: Lessons for China and the World

Affiliation: LLM (Soochow); LLM (Groningen); Ph.D. (Birmingham); PGCHET (Queen’s). Dr. Qingxiu has published widely in a variety of areas of law, many of which are themed around law and ethics, with a particular focus on the development of legal infrastructures in China. He joined Sussex Law School in 2013 as Associate Professor, having previously been a lecturer in law at Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University (2007-08) and School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast (2008-13), during which he taught Transnational Business Law at Centre of Transactional Legal Studies (CTLS), Georgetown University as Adjunct Professor. Qingxiu was appointed as Li Kashing Professor of Practice at Faculty of Law, McGill University in 2019. He has held visiting posts at various institutions, including Lund University, Sweden, University College Dublin, Ireland, Tel Aviv University, Israel and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Germany. He worked also as Docent at the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School in January 2013 and 2014. Qingxiu has completed four projects funded respectively by the British Academy, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Newton Fund, and British Council (PMI) during the past years.