Runhua Wang is Associate Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. She teaches intellectual property cases and laws, contract law (Chinese), law and economics in intellectual property, and academic legal writing in English. Her research interests are in the areas of intellectual property law and policy, corporate finance, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Her research employs empirical methods, law and economics theories, and comparative analyses.
Between 2018 and 2020, Professor Wang was Empirical IP Fellow at Chicago-Kent and taught (Academic) Legal Writing, Introduction to IP, and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Chicago-Kent, she was a short-term invited researcher at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo, Japan, 2018. From 2016 to 2018, She worked at the University of Illinois College of Law as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. She was also a Thomas Edison Innovation Fellow (2018–19) sponsored by George Mason University. Professor Wang received her LL.M. and J.S.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Professor Wang has written two books in Chinese. The Fourth IP: Trade Secret Protection in the U.S., Intellectual Property Publishing House (2021). Introduction to the Theories of Legal Protection for Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Publishing House (2022). She has published in Minnesota Law Review, Buffalo Law Review, Journal of Small Business Management, Technical Forecasting and Social Change, etc. The primary topics of her publications cover the efficiency of the U.S. IP laws, Chinese tax and IP subsidy policies, and China’s guiding case system on innovation.
Professor Wang is admitted to bar of New York and holds a Certificate of Legal Profession in China. She is a WIPO ADR Young Member. She also runs a Wechat Official Account twitting IP-related news weekly.