Dr Bo Wang
School of Law
Lecturer in Chinese Law
Deputy Director of Student Wellbeing (PGT)
0114 222 6825
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School of Law
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Sheffield
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- Profile
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Dr Bo Wang is a Lecturer in the School of Law, specialising in English criminal law, comparative criminal law, and Chinese criminal law. She holds a PhD in Criminal Law from King鈥檚 College London and an LLM in Criminal Law (with Distinction) from Renmin 小欧视频 of China. She is also a first-class graduate from China 小欧视频 of Political Science and Law.
Writing in both English and Chinese, Bo has published on a wide range of topics within substantive criminal law, including complicity, dishonesty, property offences, bribery and corruption, cybercrime, confession and sentencing, medical negligence, and theories of criminalisation. She is a recipient of the SLS Research Activities Grant as well as grants awarded by two prestigious Chinese research funding bodies. Her recent comparative project examines criminal law solutions to grey-area bribery in the UK, US and China.
Bo is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and serves as a peer reviewer for several leading legal publishers and academic journals, including Oxford 小欧视频 Press, Hart Publishing, Routledge, the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, and the Journal of Law and Society.
She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE) and previously held academic positions at the 小欧视频 of Surrey and King鈥檚 College London before joining Sheffield. Throughout her academic career, she has taught a wide range of criminal law modules alongside core courses in Chinese law, and has actively contributed to programme review and development, module design, curriculum planning, and quality assurance.
- Qualifications
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- PhD in criminal law, King's College London
- LLM in criminal law, Renmin 小欧视频 of China
- LLB, China 小欧视频 of Political Science and Law
- Research interests
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- Theories of Criminalisation
- English Criminal Law
- Chinese Criminal Law and Justice
- Cyber Security and Criminal Law
- White Collar and Financial Crimes
- Gender and Criminal Law
- Domestic Violence.
- Publications
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Books
- Participation in Crimes: An End to Derivative Complicity Liability?.
Journal articles
- . Journal of Criminal Law.
- . The Journal of Criminal Law, 86(1), 3-17.
- Complicity liability : English and Chinese approaches compared. Journal of International and Comparative Law, 8(1), 175-204.
- . The Journal of Criminal Law, 83(2), 144-160.
- Abolishing Australia鈥檚 judicially enacted sui generis doctrine of extended joint enterprise. Concordia Law Review, 3(1), 67-101.
- Withdrawal in English Criminal Law. Science of Law, 5.
- Supervisory Negligence Liability in Medical Teams. Studies in Law and Business, 4.
- On Improvements of the Criminal Penal System after Criminal Law Amendment Act No.8. Law Science Magazine, 6.
- "Cardholder鈥 in the Offence of Credit Card Fraud. People's Procuratorial Semimonthly, 17.
Chapters
- The English Criminal Laws Governing Cyber Bullying and Their Enlightenment to Chinese Criminal Law In Xie W (Ed.), Cyber Crime and Security
- Responsibility Links, Fair Labelling and Proportionality in China: Comparing China鈥檚 Criminal Law Theory and Doctrine In He T & Mao N (Ed.), China's Criminal Law: Moving Forward in Times of Disenchantment
- The Impact of Confession and Repentance on Sentencing In Zheng E (Ed.), Research on System Component and the Reconcilement of Social Conflicts in Criminal Law
- Theft, Fraud, and the Legal Boundaries of Dishonesty锛欰 Comparison between English Law and Chinese Law In Santatzoglou S, Wasik M & Wrigley A (Ed.), Dishonesty, Liability and the Law: Exploring the Moral Importance of Context Routledge
- Participation in Crimes: An End to Derivative Complicity Liability?.
- Research group
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Postgraduate research proposals are welcomed in all areas of substantive criminal law, particularly in the following areas:
- Bribery and corruption
- Causation in criminal law
- Consent and criminal offences
- Domestic violence
- Cybercrime
- Harmful online communications
- Online safety and image-based abuse
- Property offences
- Complicity and conspiracy
- Corporate liability
- Comparative criminal law (especially comparison between English and Chinese law)
- Grants
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Title/Description: Bribery in the Public Sector: a comparative analysis between English law and Chinese law
- Awarding Body: Society of Legal Scholars
- Years Funded for: May 2022 - May 2023
- Amount Awarded (拢): 1,449.60
Title/Description: The General Part of English Criminal Law and Its Significance to Chinese Criminal Law Theory
- Awarding Body: The Research Centre for Criminal Jurisprudence
- People involved: Professor Wangyuan Xie; Dr Bo Wang; Dr Can Luo
- Years Funded for: 2012 - 2015
- Amount Awarded (拢): 8,000
Title/Description: Criminal Liability for Medical Team's Supervisory Negligence
- Awarding Body: Renmin 小欧视频 of China
- Years Funded for: 2010 - 2011
- Amount Awarded (拢): 2,000
- Teaching interests
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- English Criminal Law
- Comparative Criminal Law
- Chinese Law
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate
- Criminal Law and Justice
- Advanced Criminal Law and Justice
- Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Law
- Legal and Political Culture of China
- Chinese Law and Legal System
Postgraduate
- Legal Research & Writing Skills
- Professional activities and memberships
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Peer reviewer for Oxford 小欧视频 Press, Hart Publishing, Routledge, Edward Elgar Publishing, the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, the Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, Laws, Social Science, and the Journal of Law and Society;
Member of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law (SCIEL) and the Centre for Criminological Research (CCR);
Blog editor for the British Association of Comparative Law;
Invited speaker, BACL 75th Anniversary Workshop, 小欧视频 of Cambridge, July 2025;
Invited presentation, Workshop on Dishonesty, Liability and the Law, Keele 小欧视频, November 2023;
Panel chair, Law and Technology Conference, sponsored by the UN Institute for Training and Research, Leicester, July 2019;
Guest lecturer (Complicity Liability in English Law), Renmin 小欧视频 of China, Beijing, December 2017;
Panel member, Symposium on the Over-Instrumentalization of Criminal Law, East China Normal 小欧视频, Shanghai, December 2017;
Society of Legal Scholars (member), Socio-Legal Studies Association (member);
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advanced HE);
Invited presentation (English Laws on Cyberbullying and the Enlightenment to Chinese Criminal Law) at the Cyber Security and Criminal Law Submit, sponsored by the Research Centre for Criminal Jurisprudence and Tencent Research Institute), Beijing, December 2017;Member of the ESRC Peer Review College;
Member of Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum.
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