Lu Xu is a Lecturer in Property Law and module co-ordinator for Land Law. He also teaches in the Law of Trusts. His primary research interests are in property/land law, including land registration, subsidiary land interests such as parking rights, and the law of apartment ownership.

Lu graduated with first class honours in law from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He attained LLM in Property Law with Distincion from the University of Aberdeen. He received Campbell Burns Scholarship and completed his PhD at the University of Strathclyde, on Scottish Law of the Tenement and the English Commonhold. Before joining UEA Law School in September 2007, he was a tutor in law at Strathclyde between 2004 and 2007.

Lu is currently the principal investigator for "Commonhold Development in Practice" project, funded by the British Academy.