Wen Li Chan
Assistant Professor of Business Law, Co-Deputy Director of MBA Programmes, Web Administrator, Faculty of Social Sciences
Contact
- workRoom EB05a Block E
Malaysia Campus
Jalan Broga
43500 Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia - work+6 (03) 8924 8249
- fax+6 (03) 8924 8019
- WenLi.Chan@nottingham.edu.my
Biography
Wen Li is a Law and MBA graduate of the University of Nottingham. She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (currently non-practising), having been admitted to the Malaysian Bar in 2001. Prior to joining the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus in 2006, she was in legal practice in the areas of corporate, banking & finance, property and conveyancing, and information technology law. Wen Li's diverse experience includes a brief stint with a global management consulting company where she was involved in industry research and database programming. She has done website design and consultation on online channel communications for a host of organisations from listed companies to performing arts personalities. She has also served on the Kuala Lumpur Bar Information Technology Committee.
Wen Li's research interests currently relate to legal issues in data mining and credit scoring. She has conducted research on the roles and implications of information on shareholder wealth in the areas of corporate litigation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance, and has published on the impact of product recalls on CSR and firm performance. She is a Member of the Malaysian Institute of Integrity (MII), an alumnus of the MII's Tun Azizan Zainal Abidin Integrity Circles for Young Professionals Programme where she was a nominee of Transparency International-Malaysia, and also an advisor to UNMC's Integrity Business Club, a collaborative effort with the MII.
Wen Li is currently a Co-Deputy Director of the Business School's MBA programme, a member of the School's Information Services Committee and the Business School's web administrator.
Outside work, Wen Li can be found in performing spaces where she sings, plays the piano, dances, or dabbles in creative artwork. She holds a Licentiate Diploma of the Trinity College London in piano performance, has appeared in operas, musicals, choral concerts and a cappella performances in Malaysia and abroad, and has been a Judge in the Boh Cameronian Arts Awards (Music Category) since 2006. Wen Li also enjoys hiking and running (with hopes to complete a Half Marathon in the near future!)
Teaching Summary
Wen Li's teaching interests are in business and commercial law (with particular interest in contract and corporate law) and strategic management. Given her academic background in law and business… read more
Research Summary
Wen Li's research interests currently relate to legal issues in data privacy and data protection in the context of credit scoring. She is also an Internal Research Fellow with the Leverhulme Centre… read more
Selected Publications
CHAN, W. L. and SEOW, H. V., 2011. Legally Scored (Shortlisted for Best Paper) In: Credit Scoring and Credit Control XII Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Wen Li's teaching interests are in business and commercial law (with particular interest in contract and corporate law) and strategic management. Given her academic background in law and business administration, she has taught MBA Business & Commercial Law, and co-taught Undergraduate modules within the Business School on Database Design and Implementation, Computers In Business, Accounting Information Systems and New Venture Creation.
Wen Li currently teaches the following modules:
Current Research
Wen Li's research interests currently relate to legal issues in data privacy and data protection in the context of credit scoring. She is also an Internal Research Fellow with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) Malaysia.
Past Research
Wen Li's past research has involved investigations into the roles and implications of information on shareholder wealth, particularly in the area of corporate cyber-litigation, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance. She is familiar with the use of event study methodology (information content study / residual analysis) in analysing the movement of stock prices as a result of specific events. Wen Li has published in the Journal of Business Ethics on the links between CSR and pharmaceutical product recall announcements and the strategic challenges posed by the associated shareholder wealth effects on firms in the US and UK.
Future Research
Building on her interests in corporate and contract law and comparative legal systems from her experience in professional legal services, Wen Li is also interested to explore the role of trust in contracts, including its ties to the feasibility of commercial transactions in the contexts of different legal systems.