Staff profile

Miranda Qianyu Wang is a full-time PhD researcher at Durham Law School, specialising in neurolaw, neuroethics, and neurocriminology. She holds a first-class honours LLB from Durham University and an MPhil with high distinction in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. She is the 2025 International Winner of the Matariki Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

A distinguished early-career scholar, Miranda is a recipient of the Modern Law Review Scholarship, a two-time awardee of the St Chad’s Postgraduate Scholarship, and was named an inaugural Dana Scholar for the Oxford Winter Neuroethics School.

Alongside her doctoral research, Miranda serves as a tutor in European Union Law at both Durham Law School and Newcastle Law School. Additionally, she is a part-time lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Huddersfield.

Research Interests

Neurolaw, Neuroethics, and Neurorights

Healthcare AI Ethics

Decolonising the Law

Conferences and Invited Talks

Wang, M.Q. (September 2025). Interdependent rights for independent minds: conceptual overlaps in neurorights. International Conference on Neurotechnology in the Age of Human Rights, Trivent Publishing & University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.

Wang, M.Q. (Organiser) (September 2025). Wuwei: A Taoist perspective on the ethics of neuro-AI. Postgraduate Bioethics Conference, Institute of Medical Ethics & Ethox Centre, University of Oxford.

Wang, M.Q. (July 2025). Neurolaw: the ethical and legal challenges of emerging brain technology. Invited speaker, Future Thought Leaders Programme, Windsor, UK.

Wang, M.Q. (July 2025). Disruption in bioethics. Invited panellist, Institute of Medical Ethics 50th Annual Conference.

Wang, M.Q., & Liu, J. (June 2025). Neuro-ESG: enhancing ESG frameworks for neurotech investment. Invited speaker, Durham Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law Annual PGR Conference, Durham.

Wang, M.Q., & Lawrence, D. (July 2024). Neuroethics in forensic mental health. Invited speaker, Forensic Research Nottingham Summer Symposium, University of Nottingham.

Wieczorek, I., & Wang, M.Q. (April 2024). Teaching EU law outside the EU: an explorative analysis of eight case studies in Asia. Invited speaker, City Law School, University of London.

Publications

Wang, M.Q. (2026). The ethics of Ant Afu: Health AI within China’s super-app ecosystem. Journal of Medical Ethics Forum.

Wang, M.Q. (2025). Wuwei: A Taoist perspective on the ethics of neuro-AI. Journal of Medical Ethics.

Wang, M.Q. (2025). Book review of Gregg D. Caruso’s Neurolaw. Law and Philosophy.

Wang, M.Q. (2025). Neurotechnology in healthcare: submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

Karacay, N., Lim, M., Wang, M.Q., Tamer-Mohamed-Moshen-Aly, M., & Wieczorek, I. (2024). EU law, decolonisation and Brexit.

Wieczorek, I., Ahmed, S., Mogeni, S., Sanghavi, A., Stoyanov, K., Wang, M.Q., & Tamer-Mohamed-Moshen-Aly, M. (2024). What do we mean by “decolonising legal education in higher education”?

In I. Wieczorek (ed.), Decolonising legal education at Durham Law School. Association of Law Teachers Online Book Series. ISBN: 978-1-7394267-1-2.

Wieczorek, I., & Wang, Q. (2023). Teaching EU law outside the EU: an explorative analysis of eight case studies in Asia. In M. Stoicheva, S.G. Sreejith, & I. Gupta (eds.), Relevance of European Studies in Asia(pp. 95–129). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7786-4_7