Dr Faye Wang
Senior Lecturer in Law

Summary

Dr Faye Fangfei Wang is Senior Lecturer in law (2011- ) at Brunel Law School (BLS). 

Dr Wang is International Fellow at Centre for Chinese Law, University of Hong Kong; and Advisory Board Member of European Business Law Review.

Dr Wang has served as convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Cyberlaw Section (2009-2016) in the UK. She has served as Director for Undergraduate Studies; and Director PGR and PhD Programme Leader at the BLS. She has held academic positions such as lecturer, senior lecturer and co-Director for an established IP research centre since 2007 prior to joining the BLS. 

Dr Wang specialises in cyberlaw, most particularly from the private law perspective, covering the topics of contract law, commercial law, private international law, online dispute resolution, privacy, data protection and digital IP Rights. Her reserach considers how law is challenged by the innovation of technology in both common and civil law systems. 

Being educated both in law and computer science, she has published five monographs in her relevant research fields. Her recent book, Online Arbitration (Routledge, 2018), examined the legal feasibility of online arbitration in the age of artificial intelligence. Her recent article "Online Dispute Resolution Simulation: Shaping the Curriculum for Digital Lawyering" (2021) reflects her experience in equipping students with both legal and digital skills, while her work on online dispute resolution has been used as an encyclopedia entry by Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (Oxford University Press). Building on her focus on digital law, "Legislative Developments in Cybersecurity in the EU" (2020) further provides insights into achieving higher levels of cybersecurity.

Dr Wang’s evidential report and speech on “AI and Intellectual Property Rights: IPR Protection for AI-Created Work” for the evidence meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence on 24 January 2022. 

Her speech was subsequently developed into the journal article, “Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works: Solutions to Further Challenges from Generative AI” (2023).

Her recent publications, including "Streamlining Copyright Protection: Leveraging Algorithmic Justice in Administrative and Civil Systems" (2025), "AI Ethics of Online Commercial Arbitration in Comparative Perspective" (2023) and "Resolving Online Content Disputes in the Age of Artificial Intelligence " (2022) address critical issues in AI data ethics, alternative dispute resolution, and liability frameworks.

Dr Wang is the author of five monographs:

1. Online Arbitration, Routledge, 2018;
2. Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions, Routledge, 2nd Edition, 2014;
3. Internet Jurisdiction and Choice of Law, Cambridge University Press, 2010;
4. Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions, Routledge, 2010; and
5. Online Dispute Resolution, Elsevier (Chandos) publishing, 2008.

Qualifications:

LLB Law, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), China

Diploma in Computer Science & Application, GDUFS

LLM Commercial Law, University of Aberdeen

PhD Law, University of Southampton