Ying Wang

Ying Wang is a professor at Law School of Renmin University of China and Deputy Director of the Renmin Law and Technology Institute. Professor Wang was a visiting scholar at Würzburg University Law School in 2018 and a research fellow at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation in 2021. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and serves on the advisory board of TechInLaw: The Technology, Innovation, and Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Professor Wang’s academic journey is marked by a deep exploration into the attribution of responsibility for harm in both cyberspace and the physical world, as reflected by her numerous publications on conventional crime and cybercrime, AI harm and risks, AI accountability and liability, and the regulation of automated driving (published in Chinese, German and forth coming in English). In addition to her research, she actively promotes academic cooperation and fosters a global dialogue on the intersection of law and emerging technologies among legal scholars and law students in China, Germany, and the United States by initiating and organizing various international academic conferences and student workshops.

Professor Wang holds a doctorate in law from Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (now the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law) in Germany and a master’s degree in law from Peking University in China.