Rate My Professor Longjie Lu

Dr. Longjie Lu is a Lecturer in Banking, Corporate and Financial Law at Edinburgh Law School within the Law faculty at the University of Edinburgh, having joined the institution in September 2019. She holds additional leadership roles as Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law, Programme Director for the LLM in Commercial Law, and Student Mobility Coordinator. Prior to her current position, Lu taught law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. Her academic background includes a PhD in Law from the University of Leeds, awarded on 13 April 2018, and an LLM in Financial Law from Peking University, completed on 1 July 2014. Lu’s main research interests encompass financial regulation, corporate governance, corporate finance, and empirical legal studies, frequently adopting comparative perspectives, particularly between the UK and China. She is currently accepting PhD students in these areas.

Longjie Lu has an active publication record that underscores her contributions to the field. Her book, Market or State: The Regulation and Practice of Bankers’ Remuneration in the UK and China, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Recent peer-reviewed articles include ‘Regulating ESG rating firms as the gatekeepers for sustainable finance’ in the Capital Markets Law Journal (2024, vol. 19, issue 2, pp. 184-206), ‘When China’s wealth management products become vulnerable to runs: From liquidity management to sponsor support’ in the Hong Kong Law Journal (2024, vol. 54, issue 2, pp. 395-428), and ‘ESG-based remuneration in the wave of sustainability’ in the Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2023, pp. 1-43). Additionally, she authored the chapter ‘Executive remuneration in financial firms – Driving behaviour and shaping culture’ for the forthcoming edited volume Corporate Governance and Culture in Financial Institutions (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp. 112-142). These works address pivotal issues in financial markets regulation, sustainable finance, and executive compensation, enhancing scholarly discourse in Banking, Corporate and Financial Law.