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Dr Ping Xiong is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, College of Business and Law, at Adelaide University. She previously served at the UniSA: Justice & Society and held an academic position at Victoria University of Wellington prior to joining UniSA. Dr Xiong holds a PhD in law and an LLM. Her research interests encompass International Economic Law, with particular emphasis on intellectual property policy in international trade and its implications for free trade agreements and international human rights. She also pursues comparative law studies on the Chinese legal system, covering trade secrets law and the legal, trade, and investment challenges of Chinese companies, especially state-owned enterprises, operating overseas. As an associate member of the Centre for Asian Business, she contributes to related scholarly activities.

Dr Xiong's scholarly output includes key books such as International commercial law (7th ed., 2024) and An international law perspective on the protection of human rights in the TRIPS agreement: an interpretation of the TRIPS agreement in relation to the right to health (Vol. 108, 2012). Prominent journal articles feature Towards a new corporate governance in the digital age – an expanded stakeholder approach? (2026, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, with R. Tomasic), A comparative study on fiduciary duties in Chinese Company Law (2023, Australian Journal of Corporate Law), Soft law, state-owned enterprises and dispute resolution on PRC's belt and road - towards an emerging legal order? (2019, Hong Kong Law Journal, with R. Tomasic), Globalization, legal culture, and the handling of Sino-Australian commercial disputes (2016, The Chinese journal of comparative law, with R. Tomasic), and Freedom of religion in China under the current legal framework and foreign religious bodies (2013, Brigham Young University Law Review). She delivers courses including COML 2005 Companies and Partnership Law, LAWS 3071 Principles of Intellectual Property Law, LAWS 3073 World Trade Law, and LAWS 5016 The Law for Managers. Currently, she supervises PhD candidates on human rights due diligence in Chinese state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations' business human rights practices, and TRIPS collective management. Eligible to supervise higher degree research students, Dr Xiong is also available for media comment.