Dr Marianne von Blomberg
Global Academic Fellow
Biography
Marianne von Blomberg is a Global Academic Fellow (postdoctoral researcher) at the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong. Her work employs qualitative empirical methods to examine how public regulation of and through digital technologies evolves across China and the European Union. She published widely on China’s social credit systems as new modes of assessment-driven regulation, their impact on legal remedial channels, and on related techno-orientalism in the US media discourse. In her current work, she deepens her focus on the transformation of regulation and related legality challenges to include processes of technical standardization – key sites where regulatory logics are developed and negotiated.
Marianne completed her PhD (Dr. phil.) under the supervision of Björn Ahl at the Chair for Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. She holds an LL.M. in Chinese law from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and a BA in Communication and Cultural Studies from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. She has been a visiting scholar at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law and previously worked at several news outlets, the Jingling Law Firm (criminal defence), the Volkswagen Group, and the German Embassy in Ottawa.
Beyond research, Marianne contributes to public and policy-facing engagement on PRC law in Europe through advising EU officials, teaching, and serving as the editor of the blog of the European Chinese Law Studies Association (ecls.eu), and co-organizing its conferences and summer schools.
A list of publications is available at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9929-283X.
