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Yu Jiajia

Associate Professor
Criminal law and Medical Law

Office phone: 62934513
Address: Room 413, Law Building, Jiao Tong University, Huashan Road 1954, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
Email: jiajiay@gmail.com

  • Educational background

    (1) September 2001-July 2006
    LL.B and B.A, School of Law, Shandong University, China
    (2) September 2006-July 2008
    Master of Laws, School of Law, Peking University, China
    (3) December 2006
    passed the National Judicial Examination
    (4) April 2008-March 2010
    Master of Laws, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    (5) April 2010-July 2013
    PhD in juris (summa cum laude), The University of Tokyo, Japan
    (6) October 2018-September 2020
    Postdoc, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany
  • Professional Experience

    (1) April 2012-March 2014
    Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS),Japan
    【Mentor: Prof. Hitoshi Saeki;Research Topic: The Intervention of Criminal Law in the Field of Healthcare】
    (2) March 2014-November 2017
    Lecturer, KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    (3) September 2015- November 2015
    Visiting Scholar, School of Law, The University of Washington, USA
    (4) October 2017--
    Adjunct Researcher, The Institute of the Policy and Social Safety of Waseda University, Japan
    (5) December 2017--Present
    Associate Professor, KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    (6) June 2018-Present
    Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Germany
    (7) May 2019--Present
    Attorney at law, Duan & Duan Law Firm, China
    (8) June 2025-February 2026
    Visiting Scholar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
  • Research Interests

    Modern Crimes in the Information Society; Cybercrime; Medical Law; Comparative Criminal Law
  • Publications

    Monographs
    1. YU, Jiajia (2022), Usury on the Non-Bank Lending Market, Beijing: Law Press China, 2022.
    2. YU, Jiajia (2017), Medical Negligence as a Criminal Offence from the Perspective of Comparative Law, Taibei: Angle Publisher.
    3. YU, Jiajia (2017), Medical Malpractice, Tokyo: Seibundoh (book review: published in the Annual Report of the Japanese Association of Medical Law, Vol. 34, pp.197-202, 2019).

    Textbook Chapters(selected):
    1. "Internet Healthcare," in Health Law (2nd Edition) [Textbook for the 12th Five-Year Plan of Regular Higher Education], Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2020.
    2. "Medical Negligence" and "Legal System of Digital Health" in Health Law [National Medical School Textbook for Eight-Year Program and "5+3" Integrated Clinical Medicine Program], Beijing: People's Medical Publishing House, 2025.

    Research Papers (selected)

    → English paper
    1. YU, Jiajia (2026), Evolving Paradigms in China’s Human Genetic Resource Regulation: From Biopiracy Prevention to Bridging National Interests and Global Collaboration, 23(4) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (SSCI).
    2. YU, Jiajia (2024), Analyses on Plutophilia and Criminal Law in China, 54 Revista Penal.
    3. Jiajia Yu (2022). China's New Developments in Crackdown on Criminal Copyright Infringement in the Digital Era, 13 (1) Asian Journal of Law and Economics, De Gruyter (SCOPUS).
    4. Jiajia Yu(2017).  Medical negligence as a criminal offence in China, in: Patrick Mistretta (dir.). Le droit français à l´aune du droit comparé: pour un droit penal médical rénové? , 43-45.
    5. Jiajia Yu(2017). Cybercrime in China- A Review Focusing on Increasing Criminalization of Harmful Cyberactivities, 47(3) Hong Kong Law Journal (SSCI).

    → Japanese paper
    1. YU, Jiajia(2025), New Developments in Preventing the Misuse of Prescribed Drugs Containing Narcotics or Psychotropic Substances, 16 WIPSS Journal.
    2. YU, Jiajia(2025), Legalization of Voluntary Assisted Suicide:Global Insights and Possibilities in China, 35(2) Daito Law Journal.
    3. Yu, Jiajia(2019), Corruption in the Healthcare Sector, in: The New Trend of Criminal Policy- A Collection of Articles Written in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Professor Masako Ishigawa, Tokyo:Seibundoh.
    4. Yu, Jiajia and Saeki, Hitoshi (2011), Criminal Medical Malpractice in the UK and US, 28 Criminal Law Journal.

    → Spanish Paper
    1. Yu, Jiajia (2016), ¿En qué medida permite el Derecho penal chino la eutanasia?, Victor Manuel Macias Caro(translator), 37 Revista Penal.

    → Chinese paper
    1. YU, Jiajia (2024), Regulatory Rules for Registration of Medical Software as a Medical Device: a Comparative Research and Case Study based on Chinese and Japanese Laws, 19(12) China Digital Medicine.
    2. Yu, Jiajia (2024), Legal Restrictions on the Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 3 SJTU Law Review.
    3. Yu, Jiajia(2023), Quality and Safety of Digital Healthcare, 78 Angle Health Law Review.
    4. Yu, Jiajia (2023), Current Status and Development Strategies of Standardization in Medical Complaint Handling in Shanghai, in Shanghai Health Policy Research Annual Report (2022), Beijing: Science Press: 237-242.
    5. Yu, Jiajia (2021), A Typological Analysis of Legal Issues in Physician-Assisted Death: Based on U.S. Law, 45 Criminal Law Review.
    6. Yu, Jiajia (2019), The World's Most Permissive Euthanasia Law: Belgium's Euthanasia Legislation, 12 Angle Health Law Review.
    7. Yu, Jiajia (2018), Legal Challenges of Telemedicine under Current Chinese Law in China, 3 Journal of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
    8. Yu, Jiajia (2018), Revival and Development of Traditional Medicine in Japan: A Study of Standards and Regulations,2 Fudan International Relations Review.
    9. YU, Jiajia (2018), The Bribery Crime in the Federal Law of the United States, 5(1)Journal of Soochow University (law edition).
    10. YU, Jiajia (2017), Legal Issues for Medical Advertisement, 30(11) Chinese Medical Ethics.
    11. YU, Jiajia (2017), Telemedicine and Legal Issues,25(3) Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Social Science Edition).
    12. YU, Jiajia (2016), Standards for Determining Medical Negligence, 3 Journal of Central South University.
    13. Yu, Jiajia(2015), The Right of Self-determination of Terminal Patients and Its Limitations from Criminal Law Perspective, 6 Contemporary Law Review.
    14. Yu, Jiajia (2015), Experience and Implications of Japan's Minor Crime Processing Mechanism, 4 Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
    15. YU, Jiajia (2013), The Binding Force of Judicial Precedents in Japanese Law, 3 East China University of Political Science and Law Journal.
    16. YU, Jiajia (2011), Theft Crime, 28 Peking University Law Journal.

    Translation

    → Book (Japanese ➡ Chinese)
    1.YU, Jiajia (2017), Thinking and Enjoying (Japanese) Criminal Law, Hitoshi Saeki(author), Beijing: China University of Political Science and Law Press.
    2.YU, Jiajia (2026), An Introduction to Integrated Criminal Law, Mokoto Ida (author), Beijing: Peking University Press.


    → Paper (German ➡ Chinese)
    YU, Jiajia (2025), From the Dead End of Anonymization to Solutions for the Future of Data Protection: Perspectives on the Gaia-X Ecosystem Against the Backdrop of the Need to Uphold Digital Responsibility Goals, Christian Jäger et al.(co-authors), 110 Angle Health Law Review

    Research Projects (director)
    1. Shanghai Japan Studies & Communication Center (2024):
    Legal and Policy Frameworks for Economic Security in Japan
    2. SJTU-Warwick Seed Fund (2023):
    A Comparative Legal Analysis of Healthcare Data Protection and Cross-border Flow: China and the UK
    3. Shanghai Municipal Health Authority (2023):
    Patient Complaints and Healthcare Management
    4. National Social Science Fund of China (2017-2022):
    Cutting-Edge Medical Technologies, Ethics and Criminal Law
    5. International Cooperation Department of National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (2019):
    The Development of Kampo Medicine in Japan and Lessons Learned
    6. Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Fund (2015-2018):
    Medical Malpractice
    7. China Law Society (2015-2017):
    Criminal Law Protection for the Right to Life
    8. Shanghai Municipal Health Authority (2014):
    The Development and Governance of Healthcare Industry Associations
  • Courses

    Crime, Security and Law
    Medicine, Ethics and Law
    Biotechnology and Law
  • Other Professional Activities

    (1)2006.10-2008.7
    Editor, Peking University Law Review(北大法律评论), Peking in China
    (2)2008.5-2012.3
    Research Assistant(part-time), The Nikkoso Research Foundation for Safe Society, Tokyo in Japan
    (3)2015.04.17-19
    English presentation "Euthanasia in Chinese Criminal Law" on the Congress “China Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century in the Mirror of its Changing Legal System” granted by AvH Foundation and the Middle East University of China, Changsha in China.
    (4)2017.04.13-14
    English presentation "Medical Malpractice: criminalization and its limitations in China" on the international conference “French Law from a Comparative Perspective: from an Overhaul of Medical Criminal Law” organized by Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, Lyon in France.
    (5)2017.12--
    Editor, Angle Health Law Review(月旦医事法报告), Taiwan in China
    (6)2018.12.05
    English Lecture“Cybercrime in China” at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Cologne University, Cologne in Germany.
    (7)2019.09.12-15
    English presentation "Copyright Protection under Criminal Law in the Digital Era" on the “11th Congress of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum-Science in the age of globalization” granted by AvH Foundation and DAAD, Szczecin in Poland.

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