Qian Li (Q.)

Qian Li is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, funded by the China Scholarship Council. She is a member of the Institute for Transnational Legal Research (METRO) as well as the Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI). She is also a researcher at the Ius Commune Research School.

She has a diverse educational background having first gained a B.A. in Foreign Language from Northwest University of Political Science and Law, complemented by an LL.M in European & International Law from Hamburg University, next to her LL.M from China University of Political Science and Law.

Since 2016, she holds the National Legal Professional Qualification of P.R.China. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked as a legal advisor for a leading real estate enterprise in China. Prior to that, she gained internship experience in the fields of competition law, commercial law and international law both within the private (international law firms) and the public (Ministry of Justice and SOEs) sector.

Her current research interest includes law and economics, competition and regulation, and commercial law. Her Ph.D. dissertation tackles AI-enabled Price Discrimination from a competition law perspective.