Dr I-Ju Chen

Dr I-Ju Chen is an international economic/commercial law scholar. She specialises in WTO law and EU external economic relations law. Her PhD examining the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement in the WTO was sponsored by the University of Birmingham and won Best Paper in Taiwan Science Symposium in 2018. Her work has been referred to in scholarships with a focus on Asia-Pacific and sustainable development. Dr Chen has held a number of visiting fellowships. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Doshisha University Faculty of Law (2024) and Jean Monnet Visiting Scholar of the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law (2023). In 2021, she was a Visiting Scholar of the School of Law at Durham University. She actively engages in legal academia. She is a member of the editorial board of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Brill). She is additionally an expert reviewer of international law and policy reports of think-tanks in East Asia, e.g. the Korea Legislation Research Institute. She also performed peer review for the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (OUP), Wolverhampton Law Journal, Routledge and Managerial Finance.

Prior to pursuing her Masters of Law at University College London with a prestigious scholarship, she practised banking law and insurance law at BNP Paribas Taipei branch for three years. While working as a legal research fellow in the leading science and technology law and policy think-tank in Taiwan, she offered legal opinions to drafts and amendments to regulations. She published in periodicals, wrote reports for government commissioned projects, and designed CPD legal courses to small and medium sized enterprises. She was also an executive editor of the Science and Technology Law Review published by the think-tank.