Professor Du Ming

DU Ming is Professor of Transnational Law and Deputy Dean for Research at Durham Law School in the UK. He is also Co-Director of the Global Policy Institute at Durham University. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing, China (2024–2025), Chen An Chair Professor of International Law at Xiamen University Law School (2025), and a Senior International Visiting Scholar at Nanjing University Law School (2025). He is also a long-term Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan Law School in Shanghai, China. He was a recipient of the British Academy Senior Research Fellowship in 2024.

He was raised in China and completed his Chinese legal studies at Tsinghua University School of Law. He holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, where he was a Victor and William Fung Fellow, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, where he was a Clarendon Scholar. His current research focuses on the theoretical and structural issues of global economic governance (trade, investment, and finance), China's approach to international law, and the development of the rule of law in contemporary China. He has published widely in leading European, US, and Chinese law journals. His recent works include “International Economic Law in the Era of Great Power Rivalry” (Vanderbilt J of Transnational Law, 2024) and “The Crisis and Reconstruction of International Economic Law” (Tsinghua Law Review, 2025, in Chinese).

He is Co-General Editor of the Edward Elgar Chinese Law and Policy Series. He sits on the editorial boards of the Chinese Journal of International Law, the Journal of World Investment & Trade, Asia Pacific Law Review, and the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law.