Marianne von Blomberg is an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong and a fellow at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture of Cologne University. She further participates in a research project exploring CSR regimes and techno-regulation in Europe and China at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on regulatory evolution, in particular on assessment-based public regulation and governance-related standardisation in China. In her dissertation, she addressed the relationship of law and social credit systems in China, investigating how evolving social credit systems strengthen, weaken and transform traditional legality. She edits the blog of the European Chinese Law Studies Association (ecls.eu), of which she is an active member. Marianne holds an LL.M degree from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and a BA in Communication and Cultural Studies from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. She was a visiting scholar at City University of Hong Kong School of Law. She worked and interned with several news outlets, the Jingling Law Firm for Criminal Defence, the Volkswagen Group, and the German Embassy in Ottawa.

Publications:

Marianne von Blomberg & Chuncheng Liu (2025): Techno-orientalism in the US media: the case of ‘China’s social credit system', Information, Communication & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2565335.

Marianne von Blomberg (2026): Book review “Automating Governance in China? Data-Driven Systems in the Scoring Society” Haiqing Yu and Rogier Creemers (eds.), The China Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741026101982.

Marianne von Blomberg, Daniel Fuchs & Daniel Sprick (eds, 2025): Introduction: China and the Standardization of Digital Technologies, Special issue in China Law and Society Review, based on a workshop organized at Humboldt University Berlin 10-11 June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1163/25427466-20252004.

Marianne von Blomberg (2024): Credibility Standards: A New Social Credit Mode of Regulation? China Information, https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X231191098.

Marianne von Blomberg & Björn Ahl (2024): Debating the Legality of Social Credit in China – A Review of Chinese Legal Scholarship, The China Review, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48788928.

Marianne von Blomberg (2023): Book review “Social Credit: The Warring States of China's Emerging Data Empire by Vincent Brussee”, The China Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023001595.

Marianne von Blomberg & Jingyi von Strasser (2023): On ideology and constitutional review: The revision of the Legislation Law in the People’s Republic of China (in German), German Journal of Chinese Law (ZChinR), Vol. 30, No. 3-4 (2023), pp. 158-172.

Marianne von Blomberg & Wessel Reijers (2023): Who Deserves Credit? A Bank for the Virtuous in Rural China, Journal of Contemporary China, https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2023.2248034.

Marianne von Blomberg & Haixu Yu (2023): Shaming the Untrustworthy and Paths to Relief in China’s Social Credit System, Modern China, https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004231152138.

Marianne von Blomberg & Hannah Klöber (2022): Social Credit Dossiers in the Tradition of State-Administered Personal Files in China: Enhanced Transparency Through Legal Embeddedness? (in German), chapter in: Michael Friedewald et al. (eds.): Künstliche Intelligenz, Demokratie und Privatheit. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Marianne von Blomberg (2020): The Social Credit System and China’s Rule of Law, chapter in: Oliver Everling (ed.): Social Credit Rating, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden, pp. 111-137.