Dr Alison Lui

School of Law

Alison is a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law. She is the Associate Dean (Global Engagement) for the Faculty of Business and Law. In the academic year 2021-22, Alison is the module leader for Intellectual Property (level 6) and Employment Law (level 6) on the LL.B. Alison supervises students on the LL.B, LL.M and PhD levels. She has externally examined and successfully supervised PhD theses.

An active researcher and lead of the Business, Corporate, Banking and Financial Law Research Unit, Alison is a SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, Max Planck Fellow; Inner Temple Associate Academic Fellow; Churchill Fellow and LJMU Early Career Fellow. She has won research awards from Research England, the British Council, Society of Legal Scholars, the Honourable Society of Inner Temple and several LJMU research grants.

Alison has published a monograph and an edited book with Routledge, various book chapters and many peer reviewed articles in top journals such as the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Information and Communications Technology Law, Journal of Banking Regulation and Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. In particular, her monograph is listed as one of the best Banking Law books and one of the best selling Banking Law books of all time: https://www.routledge.com/law/posts/13691. Her article in 2018 on Artificial Intelligence and augmented intelligence collaboration is extremely highly cited, and has received approximately 144 times more citations than average compared to other publications in the same field.

Alison has presented papers at top universities and organisations such as the World Bank; Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania; INSEAD; Max Planck Institute; Cambridge; Bristol; Warwick; the Inner Temple. Alison has been interviewed by the BBC and Indus News for her insight into Employment Law; Intellectual Property and Financial Regulation matters. In 2018 and 2019, the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Digital Currency Inquiry and the Automation and Work Inquiry accepted her written evidence.

In her senior management role as Associate Dean Global Engagement, Alison is passionate in developing the three pillars of internationalisation: (1) Collaborative partnerships; (2) International student recruitment and (3) Student mobility. She strongly believes in developing students into global citizens and has won a LJMU Teaching Excellence Award for her work on COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning).

Languages

Chinese (Cantonese)
German
French
Chinese (Mandarin)

Degrees

University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, PhD
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, LL.M (Corporate and Commercial Law)
University of Bristol, United Kingdom, LL.B (European Legal Studies)

Certifications

2012, Higher Education Academy, FHEA
2008, TrinityGuildhall, ATCL

Academic appointments

External Examiner, University of Leeds, 2018 - present
External Examiner, Cardiff University, 2017 - 2021
External Examiner, University of Northampton, 2016 - 2020
Reviewer, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 2015 - present
Consultant for Employment Practice, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, 2014 - present
Chief Examiner in Employment Law, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, 2013 - 2019
External Examiner, Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board, 2012 - 2016

Highlighted publications

Lui A. 2021. FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Regulation and Crime Prevention Lui A, Ryder N. Routledge 9780367897659 DOI Publisher Url

Lui A, Lamb G. 2018. Artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence collaboration: Regaining trust and confidence in the financial sector Information and Communications Technology Law, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Arsalidou D, Lui A. 2018. Post Brexit Britain and the Pay Culture: Challenges and Opportunities Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 69 :107-125 Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2016. Financial stability and prudential regulation: A comparative approach to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Germany (Listed as one of the best Banking Law books and one of the best selling Banking Law books of all time: https://bookauthority.org/books/best-banking-law-books ) :1-213 Taylor & Francis 9781315707563 DOI Publisher Url

Internet publication

Lui A. 2023. Going digital could avert another cash crisis in Nigeria Publisher Url

Lui A, D'Alvia D. 2020. Financial support for women led SMEs during the Covid-19 pandemic Publisher Url

Lui A. 2019. Alexa, Siri, Eno, Kai – Can we trust you? Alan Turing Institute Blog https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/alexa-siri-eno-kai-can-we-trust-you Publisher Url

Lui A. 2019. Message in a Bottle – A note to the financial regulators on whistle-blower protection, Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Blog Publisher Url

Lui A. 2017. Removing class bias in algorithms? Author Url

Lui A. 2016. UK fight to keep financial sector lead should spur more funds for regulation in The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/uk-fight-to-keep-financial-sector-lead-should-spur-more-funds-for-regulation-62653. Publisher Url

Chapters

Lui A, Turksen U, Abukari A, Rasmouki F. 2023. Tax Crimes and Illicit Money Flows in the EUs: Comparison and Key Findings Turksen U, Vozza D, Kreissl R, Rasmouki F. Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union Solutions for Law, Policy and Practice Oxford University Press 9780192862341 DOI Publisher Url

Lui A. 2020. Fear, futility and frustration: Concerns of UK whistle-blowers in finance Grasso C. Whistle-blowers: Voices of Justice Springer

Lui A, Turksen U. 2020. Vulnerabilities, Obstacles and Risks in Reporting Financial Crimes: Conundrum of whistle-blowers Ryder N, Pasculli L. Corruption, Integrity and The Law: Global Regulatory Challenges Routledge 9780367186500 Publisher Url

Lui A, Apampa S. 2019. Keep the canaries singing: Are whistle-blowers in Nigeria adequately protected? Ryder N, Pasculli L. Corruption, Integrity and The Law: Global Regulatory Challenges Routledge. UK

Lui A. 2017. The importance of whistleblowers in uncovering misconduct in Potemkin villages Ryder N, Turksen U, Tucker J. The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses Routledge 9781138119970 DOI Publisher Url

Lui A. ‘Oriental Pearls of Wisdom: Interview with The Honorable Mr Justice Michael Lunn, Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court in Hong Kong’ Trends in the Judiciary Taylor and Francis

Books (authored)

Lui A. 2021. FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Regulation and Crime Prevention Lui A, Ryder N. Routledge 9780367897659 DOI Publisher Url

Conference publication

Vohra R, Pahareeya J, Hussain A, Ghali F, Lui A. 2020. Using Self Organizing Maps and K Means Clustering Based on RFM Model for Customer Segmentation in the Online Retail Business Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12465 LNAI :484-497 DOI Publisher Url

Other

Lui A. 2019. Written evidence to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee's Automation and the Future of Work Inquiry Publisher Url

Lui A. 2018. House of Commons Treasury Select Committee Digital Currency Inquiry, Written Evidence. Publisher Url

Journal article

Arsalidou D, Lui A. 2018. Post Brexit Britain and the Pay Culture: Challenges and Opportunities Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 69 :107-125 Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2015. Cross-border voting chains and the case for improving the quality of shareholder engagement International Journal of Corporate Governance, 6 :70-85 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2015. Greed, recklessness and/or dishonesty? An investigation into the micro-regulation and culture of five UK banks between 2004-2009 Journal of Banking Regulation, 16 :106-129 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2014. Protecting whistle-blowers in the UK financial industry International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, 11 :195-210 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2013. Macro and micro prudential regulatory failures between banks in the United Kingdom and Australia 2004-2009 Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 21 :241-258 DOI Publisher Url

Lui A. 2013. Macro and micro prudential regulatory failures amongst financial institutions in the United Kingdom: Lessons from Australia Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 21 :241-258 Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2012. Retail ring-fencing of banks and its implications Journal of Banking Regulation, 13 :336-348 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2012. Single or twin? the UK financial regulatory landscape after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 (This article is the fifth most downloaded article from the LJMU website) Journal of Banking Regulation, 13 :24-35 DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Lui A. 2011. Multiple principal-agent problems in securitisation Poznan University of Economic Review, 11 :47-72 Publisher Url Public Url

Report

Lui A, Fullbrook M, Spirrizzi A. 2011. Auditor Independence in Canada since 2004 Publisher Url

Thesis/Dissertation

Lui A. Regulation and Corporate Governance: A Case Study of the UK Banking Industry

Highlighted activities

Other invited event:

PROTAX Conference--New methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate corruption and tax crimes in the EU, EU Research Commission Agency, Keynote Speaker. Speech entitled 'Of Whistle-blowing in the European Union in the 21st century'. 2019

Macro-prudential policy: Implementing the financial stability mandate, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Guest speaker on the topic of 'Twin peaks in practice'. 2017

The impact of ‘gig economy’ crowd workers in large corporations, Cambridge University, UK, Keynote speaker at the Annual International Conference on Law, Economics and Politics. Topic: ‘The impact of ‘gig economy’ crowd workers in large corporations’. 2016

International Corporate Governance Network Academic Conference in Amsterdam on cross-border voting and shareholder engagement, Amsterdam, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘Cross-border voting and shareholder engagement’. 2014

World Bank High Level Meeting on Governance of Bank Subsidiaries, Vienna, Guest speaker at the World Bank High Level Meeting on Governance of Bank Subsidiaries held in Vienna. The round table meeting contributed towards a publication, which is a global knowledge tool to build capacity of banks with bank subsidiaries. It also offers practical guidance to respond to the challenges of bank subsidiary governance. Topic: Retail ring-fencing of banks. 2014

INSEAD/EABIS 10th Annual Colloquium, Fontainebleau, Paris, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘‘Better protection for whistle-blowers to improve corporate governance—A comparative approach between the United Kingdom and Nigeria’. 2011

Corporate Governance & Global Financial Crisis Conference at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘Corporate Governance, the crisis cycle and isomorphism: a case study of the UK and Nigerian banking sectors 2007 – 2010’.. 2010

Award:

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 2017

Fellowships:

Max Planck Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. 2015

Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Winston Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Professional activities

Conference presentation:

Corporate fiscal corruption in the UK: A critique of corporate criminal liability in practice, Tax Research Network 2023, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Oral presentation. 2023

The Rule of Law and Artificial Intelligence—Algorithmic Transparency and the Customer’s Right to Explanation in Automated Credit Making Decisions’, Society of Legal Scholars & University College London Financial Regulation Conference, Oral presentation. 2022

Research Grants Awarded:

Association of Coommonwealth Universities, Project DISC (Digital Information Security Course), Durban University of Technology, Grant value (£): 4,500. 2023

Research England, Enhancing Access to digital and financial payments for women and minority groups in Nigeria, Grant value (£): 9,987. 2022

British Council, The Digi:Đổi Consortium - scaling-up a sustainable digital ecosystem for HE in Viet Nam, Grant value (£): 89,958. 2022

Research England Policy Support Fund, Enhancing access to digital financial payment services for women and minority groups in urban-rural areas of Nigeria, Grant value (£): 9,995.30. 2021

Society of Legal Scholars, “A regime fit for purpose? Corporate governance and insolvency in the 2020s”, Grant value (£): 3000. 2020

Liverpool John Moores University, Enhancing access to digital financial payment services for women and minority groups in rural areas of Nigeria., Grant value (£): 8920. 2019

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Right balance of financial innovation and inclusion?, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2018

Society of Legal Scholars, Timeliness and timelessness-Corporate governance and regulatory challenges after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and Brexit, Grant value (£): 750. 2017

Liverpool John Moores University, Breaking the Oligopoly? The Use of Technology by ‘Challenger Banks’ in the UK and Canada, Grant value (£): 2000. 2017

Liverpool John Moores University, The ethical, legal and technical challenges of artificial intelligence in the financial industry, Grant value (£): 2000. 2016

Liverpool John Moores University, Timeliness and timelessness-Corporate governance and regulatory challenges after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and Brexit, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2016

Liverpool John Moores University Student Union, Change Liverpool--Improving employability of Law School students, Grant value (£): 879. 2014

EU Commission, Support for Innovative Methodology, Approaches and Tools for Teaching through the Medium of English in order to improve Educational Yield, Sustainability and Internationalization [SMARTI], Grant value (£): 936,824 Euros, Duration of research project: 2021-2024.

Other Professional Activity:

Completion of PhD supervision--Improving Accountability and Enforcement actions against company directors under the UK Companies Act 2006. 2023

Completion of PhD supervision--The Balancing Act: Regulating in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 2023

Completion of PhD supervision--Corporate Governance Regulation and Enforcement: A cross-national case study of the United Kingdom and the United States. 2023

Shortlisted for the ALT Award for Individuals, 2022 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Awards. 2022

Guest Editor for Journal of Risk and Financial Management's Special Issue "Utilization of Information Technology in Financial Regulation and Compliance". 2022

Completion of PhD supervision--Money laundering- An assessment of soft law as a technique for repressive and preventive anti-money laundering control. 2022

Co-Convenor of the Banking and Finance stream of Socio-Legal Studies Association.

Erasmus+ Teaching Scheme at Tuebingen University, Germany, May-June 2017.

Member of the Financial Crime Research Network, University of West of England.

Reviewer of Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance.

Reviewer of Liverpool Law Review.

Other invited event:

Anti-Financial Crime Summit, Hilton Hotel, London, Invited speaker on the topic of "How effective is the failure to prevent model in tackling financial crimes in the UK?". 2022

The Global Undergraduate Awards, Online event, Judge for the Law category of The Global Undergraduate Awards 2021. 2021

PROTAX Addressing Human and Legal Factors in Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the EU and Beyond, Virtual, Guest speaker. Presentation titled 'Deterrent effect of whistleblowing and the Lithuanian Whistleblower Programme'. 2021

“II New Trends In the Common Law” Artificial Intelligence, Economic Analysis of Law, Taxation and Civil Procedure, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Economic Analysis of Law, Taxation and Civil Procedure. 2019

Whistle-blowers: Voices of Justice, London (Coventry University campus), Guest speaker at International conference on corporate crime reporting and whistle-blowers' protection. 2019

SLSA Leeds Conference: The SwissLeaks scandal-Legal and ethical dilemmas of whistle-blowing on tax evasion, Leeds University, Guest speaker. 2019

A review of settlement agreements and whistle-blowers' protection in the UK financial sector, Coventry University, Guest speaker at the International Roundtable on Corporate Settlement Agreements. 2018

6th Crowdinvesting Symposium "Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings", Max Planck Institute, Munich, Presentation on 'Robo-advice and social trading: A happy co-existence?'. 2018

SLSA Conference, University of Bristol, Guest speaker on the topic of: Artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence collaboration: Regaining trust and confidence in the financial sector. 2018

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple Lecture, Inner Temple, London, Guest speaker on the topic of 'Of trust and confidence in artificial intelligence'. 2018

Researcher Links Workshop on Developing an Agenda for FinTech Research in Emerging Economies, Malaysia, Guest speaker. Topic: 'FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in the Financial Industry'.. 2017

International Conference on Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, Singapore, Guest speaker on the topic of corporate governance in technology driven challenger banks. 2017

Critical Law and Corporate Social Responsibility Network Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Guest speaker on 'Greed, recklessness and/or dishonesty? An investigation into the culture of five UK banks between 2004-2009'. 2017

Macro-prudential policy: Implementing the financial stability mandate, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Guest speaker on the topic of 'Twin peaks in practice'. 2017

A Celebration of Women's Research at LJMU, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, Guest speaker. Topic: 'Artificial intelligence in the financial industry'. 2017

UWE Guest Lecture-‘Was Australia lucky in the financial crisis of 2007-2009?, University of West of England, Guest speaker at University of West of England: ‘Was Australia lucky in the financial crisis of 2007-2009?-- A comparative analysis between the Australian and UK financial regulatory structures and responses’. 2015

University of West of England’s conference: ‘The global financial crisis and white collar crime’, University of West of England, Bristol, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘Protecting whistleblowers in the UK financial industry’. 2014

Warwick University’s conference on ‘Sovereign Debt and the Banking Crisis, Warwick University, Coventry, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘Macro and micro prudential regulatory failures amongst financial institutions in the United Kingdom: Lessons from Australia’. 2011

Second Corporate Governance and Finance Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Guest speaker. Financial development and financial stability: Is the ‘twin peaks’ regulatory approach the most suitable one for the financial sector in the United Kingdom and Australia?. 2011

Institutional Change in the European Transition Economics, Poznan University of Economics, Poland, Guest speaker. Topic: ‘Turmoil in the financial world: Financial Innovation, multiple principal-agent problems and regulatory dialectic’. 2010

Award:

Liverpool John Moores University Teaching and Learning Excellence Awards—Excellence in Digital Education Award Winner.. 2022

Liverpool John Moores University Faculty Winner Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence-Postgraduate Research Supervisor. 2021

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance. 2017

HEA grant for employability and social media, Higher Education Academy. 2012

Runner-up in the British Federation of Women Graduates Travel Bursary Competition, British Federation of Women Graduates. 2010

Conference organisation:

SLSA Conference Banking and Finance Stream in York University, Co-convenor. 2022

SLSA Cardiff Conference (Banking and Finance Stream), Co-convenor. 2021

A regime fit for purpose? Corporate governance and insolvency in the 2020s, Online conference using EventsAir platform. 2021

LJMU FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/fintech-artificial-intelligence-and-the-law. 2019

Hans-Boeckler Foundation ‘Pre-Brexit’ Colloquium, LJMU. Topic: ‘The impact of Brexit on the UK financial sector’, Co-organiser and guest speaker. 2018

Timeliness and timelessness-Corporate governance and regulatory challenges after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and Brexit, Organiser, https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/corporate-governance-and-financial-regulation-conference. 2017

A new employability model for the twenty-first century: the importance of social media and digital employability skills.

Socio-Legal Studies Association Conferences, Convenor of the Banking and Finance stream.

Fellowships:

SPRITE+ (Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust, Engagement) Expert Fellow, SPRITE+ Network Plus, https://spritehub.org/. 2022

Max Planck Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. 2015

Liverpool John Moores Early Career Fellowship, Liverpool John Moores University. 2013

Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Arts.

Winston Churchill Fellowship, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

External collaboration:

Advisory Board of the EU Horizon TRACE Research Project of 7 Million Euros, Consortium led by Coventry University. 2021

Coventry University, Professor Umut Turksen-- EU Horizon 2020 Project of £3 million: Contribution to case studies on tax crimes. 2018

External PGR examinations performed:

University of South Wales, PhD, The value of 'Technology-Enhanced Learning' (TEL) in evidencing compliance with the 'Student Contract to Educate' (SCTE) in a new era of accountability in UK Higher Education. 2020

Deakin University, PhD, Assessment and Theories of China’s Compliance with WTO in Financial Services’. 2017

Media Coverage:

Indus News Pakistan--Transparency International's Report on Corruption 2019

BBC Radio Merseyside on the role of trade unions in modern society, 2015

Interviewed by BBC Radio Merseyside in December 2012 about the trade mark of Liverpool Football Club.

Interviewed by BBC Radio Merseyside in June 2014 about the employment law changes brought by the coalition government

External committees:

Society of Legal Scholars Council, Society of Legal Scholars, Council Member. 2018

Editorial boards:

Centre for Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence, Editorial Board Member and Conference Management Committee Member. 2018

Global Business Research Journals, Member of the Editorial Review & Advisory Board for Conferences. 2017

Industrial connections:

Global Integrity Research Network, Member of the Global Integrity Research Network, http://www.girnweb.com/people.html.

Membership of professional bodies:

Member, Law Society of England and Wales.

Member, Liverpool Law Society Employment Law Committee.

Member, Royal Society of Arts.

Member, Society of Legal Scholars.

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