Dr Lu Xu
Senior LecturerCareer Details
I attended Shanghai Foreign Language School (上外附中) before coming to the UK. I graduated from the Robert Gordon University with a first class honours law degree and attained LLM in Property Law with Distinction at University of Aberdeen. I received Campbell Burns Scholarship and completed my PhD at University of Strathclyde, where I was also a Tutor in Law (2004-07). I worked as Lecturer in Property Law at University of East Anglia between 2007 and 2014, before joining Lancaster University Law School as Senior Lecturer in Property Law in September 2014.
Research Overview
Dr Xu's main research interests are in English land law, Scottish property law, comparative property law, and apartment ownership law. He is particularly interested in land registration and subsidiary interests in land, such as easements, servitudes, covenants, land obligations and real burdens.
Research Grants
"Commonhold developments in practice", British Academy (2012-2014)
"The Emerging Chinese case law system", Lancaster University, GCRF Seedcorn Fund (2018-2019)
Current Teaching
Land Law
Equity and Law of Trusts
External Roles
I am currently part of the Law Commission's Technical Advisory Group for commonhold reform.
I am also an external examiner for Leeds University (2017-2021).
Profile
I am a Chinese national and my Chinese name is 徐露. Xu is my family name and Lu is my given name.
PhD Supervision Interests
Dr Xu is happy to supervise research in property law (broadly defined), especially those from a comparative perspective.
The emerging case law system in China and its role in constructing and interpreting the “socialist rule of law”
18/10/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research
Funded by LU GCRF Seed Corn: The Emerging Case Law System in China
19/06/2018 → 30/06/2019
Research
Scottish Law Commission (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Law Commission (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel
Fudan University
Visiting an external academic institution
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Visiting an external academic institution
Deutschen Richterakademie
Visiting an external academic institution
Centre for Law and Society
CILHR Centre for International Law and Human Rights
- Centre for Law and Society