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Daren Tang, a national of Singapore, began his six-year mandate as Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on October 1, 2020.
Adam was formally appointed CEO and Comptroller General in December 2022 (having been Interim CEO from September 2022).
Previously, Director for Business and International Policy, and a member of the IPO’s Board, Adam was responsible for the Office’s international activities, trade negotiations, support to UK businesses and academia, as well as bolstering the IP ecosystem in the UK.
Adam has previously worked in the UK Government on Defence policy matters and has extensive experience dealing with policy issues in the EU, UN and NATO as well as undertaking bilateral negotiations.
Adam joined the Intellectual Property Office in late 2009 as Head of International Coordination in the Copyright and Enforcement Directorate. He then took up the role of Deputy Director International Policy in July 2013 and the role of Director in September 2017.
Adam also held a voluntary Non-Executive Director role for the Welsh Rugby Players Association between 2019 and 2021.
Adam has a Bachelor of Sciences degree and a Masters degree in Business Administration.
In his personal time, Adam enjoys cooking, international travel and watching Rugby Union.
Mr. Tan Kong Hwee has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), effective March 1, 2025. Prior to this role, he served as the Executive Vice President at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), where he oversaw the Global Enterprises and Marketing Group. In this capacity, he was responsible for branding and marketing Singapore as an international business hub and facilitating business activities of enterprises with investment interests in the country.
Mr. Tan began his public service career with the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2002. He joined EDB's Infocomms and Media Division in 2006 and subsequently held positions in Japan and Europe. Under his leadership, EDB made significant strides in pursuing new frontiers and investment projects across various sectors. He also managed relationships with top local and international companies as the Executive Vice President of EDB’s Accounts Group.
Mr. Tan holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan.
Aleksandra is a Polish-qualified advocate experienced in intellectual property law, privacy, and technology law, with a specific focus on matters related to AI technology. Her experience includes transactional, regulatory, and contractual matters. Aleksandra advises clients across a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on IT, e-commerce, and creative industries.
Aleksandra has completed numerous courses on IP/TMT and AI matters, including a course on the IP protection of traditional knowledge organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization and a CopyrightX course organised by Harvard Law School. She was also both an organiser and a participant in the IP in Creative Industries summer school at the University of Gdańsk.
Aleksandra is also a speaker at national and international conferences. Some of her favourite topics, which she has covered in Riyadh, San Francisco, and Las Vegas, include the concept of copyright by design in AI systems and combating the risk of algorithmic bias in AI system deployment.
Dr. Alexander Chan Hou LOU is a Macau Fellow Researcher at the University of Macau, specializing in the fair use of data intellectual property and data privacy law. He holds a Ph.D. in Law and a Master’s degree in International Intellectual Property Law from Tsinghua University, and previously served as a Visiting Scholar at Duke University School of Law. His notable publications include:
- On the Permissible List and Criteria List of the Fair Use of Personal Information under the Civil Code of the PRC – Taking the Douyin Case as an Example, 11 Zhengzhi yu Falü [ Sci. & L.] 136 (2020).
- Public or Privacy? Dual Process Theory and Fair Use of Disclosed Personal Information in Chinese Judgments, 16 Tsinghua China L. Rev. 50 (2023).
- From Yīnsī to Yǐnsī: The Evolution of Privacy Ideas in Modern China, 6 Faxue Jia [The Jurist] 31 (2022), reprinted in 5 Ren Da Fuyin Baokan Ziliao (Falixue Fashixue) [China Social Science Excellence (Jurisprudence and Legal History)] 97 (2023), published in 12 Renmin Chinese L. Rev.: Selected Papers of The Jurist (forthcoming) (2026) in the UK.
- The Human Right to Personal Information: Normative Interpretation Based on China’s Constitution, 1 Ren Quan [Human Rights] 94 (2024).
- “Dayi Ma Case” and the Scope of Administrative Trademark Litigation Review in Retrial, 3 Jingchu Faxue [Jingchu L. Rev.] 148 (2023).
Dev Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law within the Law Faculty and a Law Fellow at St Hilda's College. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics. Dev is a graduate of the National Law School of India and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dev's research focuses on Intellectual Property (IP), with a special emphasis on Branding and Trade Marks, Geographical Indications and Copyright law. Thematic research interests include the history and political economy of IP, collective and open innovation, the significance of registration for intangibles, and rights in data. He has acted in an advisory capacity for national governments, law firms, international organisations and the European Commission on IP issues.
Besides IP, Dev has teaching interests across private law, including contract, land and tort law. He has won teaching prizes (LSE) and a student welfare award (Oxford). He is a visiting professor at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre, having taught on their LLM programme since 2010. He has held visiting fellowships and positions at the Institute of Intellectual Property in Tokyo (2005), the IP Research Institute of Australia at UNSW (2010), Hong Kong University (2018), the National University of Singapore (2022) and the University of Berne (2023). Dev is presently Director of the Oxford IP Research Centre (OIPRC). He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Modern Law Review and Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence. He has served as acting dean in the dean’s absence.
He is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on IP and competition policy trends and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps stakeholders understand the world around them. He consults internationally on various IP and antitrust issues.
Dr Jia WANG is an Associate Professor at the Law School, Durham University. Before joining Durham Law School in 2020, she taught at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has been a Research Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society (now the Berkman Klein Centre) and a Postdoc Fellow at the Law School, Singapore Management University. She is a Co-director of the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy and co-investigator of JusT0W, an interdisciplinary Durham University Strategic Funding Research Project. She is a Director of the Academic Committee of the Asian Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Her research interests lie in intellectual property law and the intersection between law and technology. The latest papers have considered IP and creative industries, artificial intelligence, generative systems and Metaverse developments. She wrote about various emerging technology-related IP issues, such as 3D printing, video games, and non-fungible tokenised artworks and innovation for cultural heritage. She publishes with Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law and Practise, European Intellectual Property Review, Hong Kong Law Journal, European Review of Private Law, Asian Pacific Law Review and a monograph with Springer. She teaches modules on Intellectual Property Law and Artificial Intelligence.
Miss Mingyue XU is a PhD student at Durham University, fully funded by the CSC-Durham Joint Scholarship. Her research focuses on the intersection of AI regulation and IP protection. She has a multi-interdisciplinary background. Before obtaining her Juris Master’s degree from Tongji University in 2024, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Financial Management from Minzu University of China in 2021. Her research aims to tackle the critical issue of algorithmic opacity through the strategic application of the patent disclosure regime in conjunction with risk management methodologies while striving to reconcile the inherent tension between trade secret protection and the growing demand for algorithmic transparency.
Mariam is a lawyer qualified in both the civil law and the common law systems. She received her Bachelor degree from the St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Law. Aiming to understand the law from an international perspective, Mariam decided to learn the common law approach on top of her civil law qualification and obtained her LLM degree at the National University of Singapore, specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. She was granted the NUS Faculty Graduate Scholarship for her LLM studies at the NUS.
Besides her deep interest in academia, Mariam is also keen on legal innovation and entrepreneurship. Mariam took part in the NUS Enterprise summer programme, presenting a project on litigation funding with a particular focus on IP cases. Having experience in working with both public and private sectors, Mariam is interested in implementation of Legal Tech solutions for both governmental and commercial areas.
Peter K. Yu (余家明) is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University Law School and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics, Hokkaido University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, the University of Helsinki, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Strasbourg and Washington and Lee University. He also founded the nationally renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He also writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of nine books and more than 200 law review articles and book chapters. He is Vice-President and Co- Director of Studies of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by WIPO, the World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, EU and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned over 30 countries on six continents. He is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications have appeared in Chinese and English and have been translated into Arabic, French, Hausa, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. They are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.
Jon Small is an intellectual property attorney and business consultant with over 35 years of experience working in-house and as outside counsel. Jon currently serves as Senior Counsel and IP Lead for Google DeepMind. Prior roles include Senior Patent Counsel for Google Search, General Counsel for Calient Networks, Associate Chief Patent Counsel for Xerox Corporation, and Patent Lead at Xerox PARC. Jon also worked for a major boutique patent firm before opening his own law practice, JAS IP Consulting. Jon's expertise spans across intellectual property strategy, policy, portfolio development, prosecution, and licensing, in both patent and copyrights, with a focus on AI/ML, software, communication, and solid state physics. Jon holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University, an M.S. in Mathematics and Education from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from California Polytechnic State University SLO. He is a guest lecturer by invitation at University of San Diego School of Law, and is a panelist and speaker at conferences at both law and technology events.
David Tan was Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) at NUS Law from January 2015 to June 2021, and Director (Communications) at NUS Law from 2013 to 2019. He holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School (2010), a LLM from Harvard (1999), and graduated with a LLB (First Class Honours)/BCom from the University of Melbourne (1995). He has taught courses at Melbourne Law School (Intellectual Property & Popular Culture; Constitutional Law) and University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law (Entertainment Law). He had also been a Visiting Affiliate Scholar at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at the NYU School of Law. David was formerly with the Singapore Administrative Service, serving as Director of Sports at Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports and Director of International Talent at Ministry of Manpower. He has also had work experience at McKinsey & Company and DBS Bank.
At NUS Law, David pioneered courses in Entertainment Law, Fashion Law, Freedom of Speech, and Privacy & Data Protection Law. His areas of research cover personality rights, copyright, trademarks, freedom of expression, constitutional law and tort law, and his articles have been cited on a number of occasions by the Singapore Court of Appeal and High Court.
David has published over 100 articles, comments, book chapters and review essays since joining NUS Law in 2008. In the area of law, he has published in a diverse range of journals such as the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Yale Journal of International Law, Sydney Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, Law & Literature, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Media & Arts Law Review, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Torts Law Journal and Australian Intellectual Property Journal. His monograph — The Commercial Appropriation of Fame: A Cultural Analysis of the Right of Publicity & Passing Off — on celebrity personality rights was published by Cambridge University Press in hardback in 2017, and in paperback in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_27X6UaExZQ&feature=youtu.be
David is also an accomplished fine art and fashion photographer having published a coffeetable book Visions of Beauty in association with Versace, and Tainted Perfection in collaboration with Cartier in Singapore, and has had over half a dozen solo exhibitions. His works have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Time and The New Yorker.
Zachary Cooper is a PhD Candidate whose research focuses on techno-regulatory incoherence when applying copyright to emerging forms of Generative AI-enabled media. His most recent article – “The AI Authorship Distraction” – has been assigned on AI & the Law syllabi in Europe and in the USA. He was recently invited to be the inaugural Abrams Scholar of the Copyright Society. His interdisciplinary research programme has led to dozens of speaking invitations worldwide in a wide array of settings, including the International Conference of Machine Learning, the IPSC in Berkeley, the UNESCO AI & Human Rights Conference and at an expert summit on AI disinformation in the Hague. He served as Co-Editor of the European Journal of Law and Technology and as Editor-In-Chief of the Amsterdam Law Forum. He recently completed a 6-month fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute where he organised an international workshop bringing together leading scholars such as Pamela Samuelson and creative GenAI pioneers such as CJ Carr to bridge gaps in contemporary scholarship with near-future-state technology.
Innovators can protect their technical innovation with a number of different legal instruments. Usually these instruments are mutually exclusive and innovators have to decide which means of protection would be in their best interest. Also, on a larger scale, policy makers have to decide which type of intellectual property rights are best suited to promote the development of innovation for society, and then provide regulation to incentive broad use accordingly. Below chart summarizes some of the choices that innovators have. Choosing between seeking trade secret protection, which requires secrecy on the one hand, and patent protection, which requires disclosure of the invention through the patent office, is also referred to as ÅgOpen-Close StrategyÅh. If an innovator chooses patent protection for a valuable invention, he will again have to make choices how to exploit the patent and to which degree he will make the patent available to third parties.
The incentive to use patents or trade secrets relies to some degree on their enforceability in case of infringement. A significant part of my research focusses on developing a balanced framework of enforcement rules. The owner of a valid patent or trade secret should be able to effectively enforce their rights in court proceedings if there is a likelihood of infringement. At the same time, a court system should not be decked in favor of the right holder, as such a setup may encourage overly excessive enforcement which may have a chilling effect on competition. As a comparative intellectual property law scholar, I am analyzing the evolving enforcement systems of different leading jurisdictions such as the US, UK, Germany, India, or China, and develop suggestions on what kind of solutions can be implemented in Japan or in other jurisdictions in light of local or national civil procedure rules and other factors relevant for enforcement.
CUI Guobin is Professor as well as Director of the Center for Intellectual Property at Tsinghua University Law School. He was the Associate Dean for International Affairs and Academics (2016.7-2019.6). Professor Cui earned his Ph.D. in law, LL.M., and B.Sc. in Chemistry from Peking University, and his second LL.M. from Yale Law School.
His scholarly interests include intellectual property, antitrust, property, and law and economics theory. He teaches Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, Advanced Topics on IP, IP Licensing, and Chinese Civil Law. He has published more than 30 law review articles and two popular casebooks, “Patent Law: Cases and Materials” (1st edition in 2012, 2nd edition in 2015) and “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials” (2014, Peking University Press).
Before he joined Tsinghua in 2002, he had practiced law in Beijing and Shanghai. In 2008, he worked as an intern for Judge Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University Law School in 2008, the University of Chicago Law School in July 2012, the University of Washington Law School in May 2013, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in February 2018. In August 2020/2021, he was visiting associate professor/visiting professor at National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Law, teaching a course on Chinese Intellectual Property Law.
He also serves as adjunct researcher, the Center for Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property, the Supreme People’s Court of China; legal advisor, Beijing High People’s Court; specialist juror, Beijing Intellectual Property Court（2016-2020）; and legal advisor, the People’s Court of Haidian District of Beijing.
Yang Chen is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He has received an LLB from China University of Political Science and Law, an LLM from London School of Economics, and another LLM and SJD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Yang works primarily in the areas of intellectual property law, with a keen interest in particularly trade secrets law and right of publicity. He also researches in trademark law and copyright law.
Michael is a Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice and the former Head of the School of Private and Commercial Law (2021-24). He researches in the field of intellectual property law, focusing in particular on national and international trade mark law, the international regulation of geographical indications of origin, and copyright law.
Michael is the co-author, with Professor Robert Burrell, of Australian Trade Mark Law (LexisNexis, 3rd ed, 2024), one of the leading texts on the topic. He is also the co-author, with Professors Kathy Bowrey, Dianne Nicol, Jane Nielsen and Kimberlee Weatherall, of Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed, 2021). He has written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on various aspects of local and international intellectual property law, in publications including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, Melbourne University Law Review, Federal Law Review, UNSW Law Journal, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and the Trademark Reporter. He has also co-authored influential submissions to government law reform inquiries.
Michael was a co-investigator, with Professor Kathy Bowrey, on the Australian Research Council funded project 'Entertainment Rights in the Age of the Franchise: A Reappraisal of Personality Rights under Australian Intellectual Property Laws' (2009-11), the key output of which was the acclaimed edited collection, Law and Creativity in the Age of the Entertainment Franchise (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Michael is the current chair of the Trade Marks Subcommittee of the Law Council of Australia’s Intellectual Property Committee, and a member of IP Australia’s Trade Marks and Designs Consultation Group.
Chen Hongyue is a Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University School of Law, specializing in intellectual property law. She holds an LL.B. from Renmin University of China and an LL.M. from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on patent law, with a particular interest in the perspective of innovation economics and government innovation policies.
Education
2015.09–2018.06
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (985/211)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), Intellectual Property Law
Professional Experience
2022.08–Present，Wuhan Intermediate People's Court of Hubei Province
Judge Assistant, Intellectual Property Division
2022.01–2022.08
NavInfo Co., Ltd. (Beijing)
Legal Counsel, Legal Department
2018.07–2021.12
JD.com, Inc.
Intellectual Property Consultant, Legal Compliance & IP Department
Publications
- "Research on the Path of Copyright Recognition for Generative AI Works", in Decoding AI Copyright: Challenges and Responses in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (edited by China Copyright Center), published by China Renmin University Press, 2024, pp. 224-241. ISBN:9787300332796.
- "Copyright Determination for AI-Generated Content "Copyright Theory and Practice, Issue 2, 2024; Full-text Reprinted by Renmin University Copying Materials (August 2024).
- "Legal Regulation of Deep Links in Video Aggregation Apps"
China Publishing Journal (CSSCI, Core Journal), Issue 7, 2019. - "Application of Proportionality in Intellectual Property Law"
Chu Tian Trial, December 2023. - Multiple case analyses published in China Publishing Journal (Core Journal).
Honors & Awards
- The first prize-winning paper，The Second "New Interest Law Youth Forum" and "Outstanding Paper Competition" hosted by Tsinghua University.
- Third Prize, 33rd Hubei Provincial Court Academic Symposium
- Second Prize, 3rd Henan Province Intellectual Property Pilot Province Development Project
- Excellence Award, 2016 Hubei Civil Law Society Research Conference
Joshua Yuvaraj is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland (New Zealand), and an Academic Fellow at TRAIL. His research covers copyright, law and technology, and private law. Joshua teaches Contract Law, Copyright and Design and Privacy Law at the University of Auckland, and Copyright and Design at Melbourne Law School where he is a Senior Fellow. Joshua obtained his PhD from Monash University, where he won the Mollie Holman Medal for best law thesis. His first co-authored book, Copyright Reversion: Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid, is due to be published in August 2025 by Cambridge University Press.
Robert Burrell is Professor of Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford and Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne. He is the author, with Michael Handler, of Australian Trade Mark Law (3rd Edition 2024) and, with Allison Coleman, of Copyright Exceptions: the Digital Impact (2005). In the innovation space he has written a series of articles with Catherine Kelly that re-examine the role of the British state, in particular the Admiralty, in fostering innovation during the long eighteenth century.
Tianxiang He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. A multi-faceted academic, Dr. He’s extensive educational background includes an LL.B. degree from Huaqiao University, China (2007), and a Master’s degree in International Law from Jinan University, China (2009). Furthering his studies, he accomplished two distinct Ph.D. degrees: one in IP Law from Maastricht University, the Netherlands (2016), and another in Criminal Law from Renmin University of China (2017).
From August 2012 to July 2013, Dr. He worked in the Research Center for the Legal Systems of Intellectual Property of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan as a visiting researcher. In Europe, the Ius Commune Research School conferred to him an Honorable Mention in the Ius Commune Prize 2014.
From August 2016 to June 2023, Dr. He enhanced his pedagogical skills as an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. His dedication and academic prowess led to his promotion and substantiation to Associate Professor in July 2023. He also continues his affiliation with Maastricht University as an Associate Member of IGIR.
Dr. He is the accomplished author of the book Copyright and Fan Productivity in China: A Cross-jurisdictional Perspective (Springer), alongside numerous articles published in top-tier journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Computer Law & Security Review, The University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, Hong Kong Law Journal, and Asia Pacific Law Review.
Presently, Dr. He extends his expertise by serving on the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (CJCL), published by the esteemed Oxford University Press.
Gideon Parchomovsky specializes in intellectual property, property law, and cyber law.
Parchomovsky has already made significant contributions to the field through his wide-ranging scholarship, having written numerous articles for major law reviews on property and liability rules, insider trading, trademarks, domain names, and patents. Most recently, he has been advocating the need for a comprehensive property theory and the need to introduce a value-oriented theory.
Parchomovsky has received the A. Leo Levin Award presented to the best teacher of a first-year course.
I returned to the University of Oxford in September 2023, having previously held posts at the University of Queensland (2009-2012), University of Oxford (2012-2015) and King’s College London (2015-2023). I completed undergraduate degrees in law and science at the University of Melbourne, including spending an Honours year in the Department of Genetics. After graduating, I was a solicitor at Minter Ellison before returning to the Melbourne Law School as a research fellow and, subsequently, doctoral candidate. My thesis won the Law School’s Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize (2012) and the university-wide Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis (2013)
My research spans many areas, including intellectual property, personal property, trusts, and law as it relates to cultural institutions and the creative industries. I have a particular interest in interrogating the ‘law in action’: that is, law as understood by everyday actors. This reflects the idea that law has multiple audiences, only some of which are legal experts (judges, lawyers and the like). How do 'regular folk' understand and engage with the law? In exploring these questions, I have used empirical research techniques and have drawn from more recent iterations of law and economics, being scholarship informed by psychologists, behavioural economists and others who have challenged and built on the insights of the Chicago school and its legal offshoots.
My longstanding work with the cultural institution sector is showcased in my monograph, Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. I have also published extensively in relation to copyright exceptions, including the pastiche exception (especially in my Intellectual Property Quarterly article from 2017) and exceptions for research and education.
In the 2024-25 academic year, I will be leading the copyright aspects of the FHS option, Copyright, Trade Marks & Allied Rights. I will also be convening the BCL/MJur half option, Incentivising Aesthetic Progress: IP, Art and Design, and contributing to the other IP half-options.
I have long been a supporter of mooting as part of legal education, and am Director of the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot.
Jyh-An Lee is a Professor and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law. He has coached the New Ventures Legal Team (NVLT), a clinical support group collaborating with CUHK’s Pre-Incubation Centre for startup companies since 2015. Previously, he served as the LLB Programme Director and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies at CUHK Faculty of Law from 2019 to 2021 and the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development (CFRED) from 2021 to 2022.
Professor Lee holds a JSD from Stanford Law School and an LLM from Harvard Law School. He has published on various aspects of intellectual property and law & technology in such academic journals as the Wake Forest Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Duke Law & Technology Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Technology Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Jurimetrics, Law, Innovation and Technology, and Computer Law & Security Review. His authored and edited books are Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press, 2021, co-edited with Reto M. Hilty and Kung-Chung Liu), Intellectual Property Law in China (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd ed., 2021, co-authored with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark), Web3 Governance: Law and Policy (co-edited with Joseph Lee, Routledge 2025), and Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012).
Before starting his academic career, Professor Lee was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions. During his studies at Stanford Law School, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014). He also lent his expertise as an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), which operates under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, during the same period. Professor Lee has been the legal lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. He is currently a TRAIL Academic Fellow at National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and an advisory-board member serving the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law advisory board, which is affiliated with the University of Vienna. Since 2016, he has held a panelist position for the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC).
Professor Lee has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune, and South China Morning Post as an expert on intellectual property and internet law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, the US Patent and Trademark Office, the US Copyright Office, the US International Trade Commission, and the WTO dispute-settlement panel.
As an assistant professor at National Chengchi University College of Communication with Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Chien-Chih is eager to bring to the academic filed his strong interest and experience in entertainment law and media governance. He was the chair of Karuk-Berkeley Indigenous Law Collaborative (Honor in Leadership Certificate) and received the UC Berkeley International and Comparative Law Certificate and UC Berkeley Public Interest and Social Justice Certificate when he finished several research projects concerning intellectual property and social justice issues.
During Chien-Chih’s academic career, his research papers have won numerous scholarships and outstanding thesis awards including Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Association Research Award, UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies Fellowship and China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award. These academic works were published in Mass Communication Research, Washington Journal of Law, Technology and Arts, Chinese Entertainment Law Review and Oxford Handbook of Music Law and Policy. Since 2012, he has been joining the Music Copyright Infringement Resource project supported by the George Washington University Law School and University Southern California School of Law. He was visiting researchers at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and Tübingen University European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan. At these positions, his research focuses on topics of artistic freedom, music licensing, digital entrepreneurship, media regulation and platform liability, Internet and Artificial Intelligence governance and cultural policy.
Justin Hughes is the Honorable William Matthew Byrne Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches intellectual property and international trades courses. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University.
From 2009 until 2013, Professor Hughes also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. In that capacity, he was the US chief negotiator for two multilateral treaties, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (2012) and the Marrakesh Treaty for the Blind (2013).
Educated at Oberlin and Harvard, Professor Hughes practiced international arbitration in Paris, was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, and, as a Henry Luce Scholar, clerked for the Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia. From 2006-2009, he was Chairman of the Technicolor/Thomson Foundation for Film and Television Heritage. In 2024, he was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Professor Hughes has also done volunteer democracy development work in Albania, Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, and Mali.
For more information and links to his scholarly papers, see www.justinhughes.net.
Prof. Dr. Kalpana Tyagi is the Professor for Intellectual Property and Competition Law at Maastricht University, and a visiting faculty at Melbourne Law School, Aruba University and the EU-China School of Law. She is the founding and managing coordinator for TILC, The Innovator’s Legal Aid Clinic, Netherland's leading innovation-focussed pro-bono legal aid club.
Prof. Tyagi holds a multidisciplinary PhD (summa cum laude) from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, where she worked as a Max Planck junior research fellow for IP & competition.
Prof. Tyagi has also worked as a research policy analyst at the International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, whereby she worked on standard setting, 5G patents and telecommunications policy. While working with world's leading third-party funder, Vannin Capital in London, she evaluated the funding potential intellectual property-related disputes. At the University of Århus, Denmark, Prof. Tyagi developed the Center for Law & Digitalization with focus on emerging technologies such as AI & the Blockchain technology.
Prof. Tyagi has had an academic training in law and economics (with the 'Erasmus Mundus' scholarship and 'Max Planck Fellow in Innovation & Competition' fellowship) and corporate strategy (as 'Think Marketing' and 'International Education Without Borders (in M&A Strategy)' scholarships).
Prof. Tyagi’s main areas of interest relate to the interface of intellectual property rights, data and competition law, particularly in the context of digitalization and sustainability.
Martin Correa is currently the Senior Counsellor for the Future of Intellectual Property at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is a lawyer with a Master's degree in International Law from Heidelberg University and has experience in the areas of innovation, IP, and trade. Previously, Mr Correa served for 12 years in the intellectual property division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Chile, where he led IP negotiations in various free trade agreements, including the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. He also represented Chile in IP-related matters at the WTO, WIPO, and other international organizations. He also served as the senior counsellor for IP and Innovation at the Permanent Mission of Chile to the WTO, WIPO, UNCTAD and ITC, and prior to this role, he worked as a legal advisor for the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile.
Professor Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, PhD, an authority in Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), specializing in the challenges AI and emerging technologies pose to IP laws, participating in leading cases in the U.S. on AI and IP and proposing solutions for interpreting IP laws in the context of AI.
Within the Copyright Association, Judge Katherine Forrest lauds her as the foremost thinker on AI and copyright.
She has been a teaching at Fordham Law School since 2012, as a visiting Professor, leading the IP-AI & Blockchain Projects at Fordham Law CLIP, until 2021; a research fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, since 2011; a board member of Penn State Dickinson Law IP & Innovation; and a at the board of Global IP Alliance, and the founder and the head of Graduate Law School on “Commercial Law, High-Tech, and Technology” at Ono Academic Law School in Israel; and the founder the Shalom Comparative Research Institute, Eliyahu Law and Tech International Center.
She has won awards and scholarships for publications and research on the legal impact of AI and other emerging technology, such as blockchain, including the visionary article “Generating Rembrandt” recognized by Michigan State University as the VISIONARY ARTICLE IN IP LAW back in 2017 abd was re-publish in 2025.
Honored for her numerous publications on AI and IP, her influence extends to top academic institutions and international bodies.
She is part of the project for recognition of the AI system "DABUS" as an inventor in the U.S. Copyright office and the U.S. patent offices led by Prof. Ryan Abbott, and authored the U.S. Supreme Court Brief, supported by distinguished professors, including Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law.She recently authored the Amicus Brief for the appeal against the DC court's decision, which seeks to invalidate the copyright of AI-generated artwork.
She holds a BA in Life Sciences and a B A in Psychology, from Bar Ilan Univ., Israel (both cum laude); LLB Law, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel (cum laude and 3 times dean awards); PhD in Law, Hebrew U., Direct Program for Outstanding Students; Post Doc. at the Graduate Program, Law, Yale Law School, USA.
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the world’s leading authorities on law and technology. One of the most cited scholars in administrative and regulatory law as well as intellectual property, he has authored five books and over 100 scholarly works.
His major research projects include investigating innovative ways to connect more people to the Internet; comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the U.S.; analyzing the technical determinants of optimal interoperability; promoting privacy and security for autonomous vehicles, medical devices, and the Internet’s routing architecture; and studying the regulation of Internet platforms. He has also created innovative joint degree programs designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering.
He is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. He recently served as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, the Board of Advisors for the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of Law for Data Privacy and the Restatement of Principles for a Data Economy, and as co-convener of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum’s Initiative on Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions.
Before entering academia, he served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph L’69 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Ronald Yu is a board member of the International Intellectual Property (IP) Commercialization Council. Ron also teaches or has taught IP and Information Technology law, at The University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University and written books, book chapters and articles on intellectual property, law and artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and electronic evidence. Ron is also recognized by IAM as one of the top IP strategists in the world.He has also started several businesses involved in product localization, public relations, children’s education, technical documentation, online training, executive education and computer forensics and addressed several conferences on the subjects of the law and IP, AI and electronic evidence including the United Nations’ WIPO General Assembly in Geneva.
Jean-Jacques Sahel was appointed Asia-Pacific Information Policy Lead at Google in November 2019, overseeing Google’s public policy approach in the region for issues including misinformation, online safety and intermediary liability.
He has been involved in international government and regulatory affairs for over 15 years in both the private and government sectors. Before joining Google, Mr Sahel was Managing Director of ICANN’s Brussels office and led the organisation’s corporate strategy and operations across the European region. He also led ICANN’s strategic plan for outreach, support and engagement with governments, private sector, and user groups throughout Europe, and worldwide for civil society.
Previously, Mr Sahel headed government and regulatory affairs for Skype, then digital policy at Microsoft for Europe, Middle-East & Africa regions. He had started his career in the City of London, before spending several years in the UK Government, leading in particular its international telecommunications policy.
Ex officio, Mr Sahel chaired the UK Chapter of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) from 2009-2019. He currently serves on the IIC’s Board and is Chair of the IIC Strategy Committee. He was a member of OSAB, the Advisory Board of UK communications regulator Ofcom for 2 terms until 2016. He has authored articles and research in both mainstream media and academic publications particularly on Internet policy and governance.
Christophe Gösken is a doctoral candidate at ETH Zurich’s Center for Law & Economics. His research empirically investigates how IP laws—combined with emerging technologies, cultural values, social norms, and consumer behavior—can help combat counterfeiting. He focuses on how legal and technological tools, such as blockchain and machine learning, can be used to authenticate IP-protected goods, enhance trust in digital marketplaces, and strengthen brand value. His work provides empirical evidence on how IP regulation and enforcement can reshape digital consumption norms.
His research has been published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, and early versions of his doctoral projects received best paper awards from University College London’s Institute of Brand and Innovation Law and the Asian Society for Innovation and Policy (ASIP) Conference.
Christophe holds a Bachelor’s and a Master of Law from the University of Fribourg (Freiburg i.Üe), as well as a Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies from Georgetown’s Law Center. He has been a visiting scholar at the Law & Technology Centre at the University of Hong Kong and in the Information System Group of New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Before joining ETH Zurich, Christophe worked in leading corporate law firms in Switzerland and London, as well as in the telecommunications sector.
(Jerry) Jie Hua is a Tenure-track Associate Professor at Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property of Tongji University (Shanghai, China). Jie obtains PhD from the University of Hong Kong, LLM in Comparative Law from University of Florida and LLB from China Foreign Affairs University. She was a visiting scholar/researcher at Duke University, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (now MPI for Innovation and Competition), and Queen Mary- University of London. Before joining in Tongji University, she worked at Deacons, one of the leading Hong Kong law firms as an Associate.
Jie is principal investigator of 2 National Social Science Fund of China projects and 3 provincial-level research projects hosted by organs such as P.R.C. Ministry of Justice and Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science. Jie has published 2 monographs, 3 book chapters, and more than 60 articles in both Chinese and English. Jie was selected as member of the first group of “Shanghai Youth Legal Talent Pool” and “Pool of Shanghai Legal Talent concerning Foreign Affairs” organized by Shanghai Law Society. In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Jie was selected into the “Top 100 Academic Influence Authors of Artificial Intelligence Rule of Law” (World Artificial Intelligence Conference Youth Forum on Rule of Law, CNKI · China Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research Center) and “CNKI High Citation Scholars: Top 1% in Law” (CNKI · China Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research Center).
Matthew Sag is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. Professor Sag is a world-leading expert on the intersection of copyright law and text data mining, machine learning, and generative AI. He is also a sought after speaker on the broader implications of generative AI and its use as a legal technology. In July 2023, he testified to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property in relation to copyright and Generative AI and his research is published in leading journals such as Nature and Science, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Professor Sag was born and educated in Australia. He earned honors in Law at the Australian National University and clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Australian Federal Court. Professor Sag practiced law in London as an associate at Arnold & Porter, and in Silicon Valley with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He joined the Emory faculty in 2022 and is proud to call Atlanta home.
Wayne Wei Wang is a Non-Resident Fellow at the FGV Center for Technology and Society in Brazil, an ACCP Fellow at the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa), and a Research Fellow (by courtesy) at the Center for Artificial Intelligence Law, GDUFE, China. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Law and Technology at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). With an interdisciplinary background in Engineering and Law, Wayne's scholarship explores Intellectual Property, Data Protection, AI Governance, and Science & Technology Studies, emphasizing Law, Innovation, Sustainability, and Technology (LIST) in the Automating Global South. His research has been published in journals including Computer Law & Security Review, Journal of AI Law & Regulation, Chinese Journal of Cyber and Information Law, and the African Journal of Information & Communication, as well as edited volumes from Oxford, Cambridge, and Routledge. Wayne holds an LLM in Intellectual Property from WIPO-QUT (Australia) on a Dean’s Scholarship and is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). He is a member of international academic networks, including the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN). His recognitions include the PTC Emerging Scholar Award (Pacific Telecommunications Council, 2025), and fellowships across the USA, UK, Germany, Singapore, Poland, Brazil and South Africa. As an academic stakeholder, Wayne also contributes to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum's Dynamic Coalition on Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DC-DAIG).
Shyam Balganesh writes and teaches in the areas of copyright law, intellectual property, and legal theory. He has written extensively on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts, and structures from different areas of the common law, especially private law. His recent work explores the interaction between copyright law and key institutional features of the American legal system. He is also working on a series of articles advancing an account of “legal internalism” that explains the shape and trajectory of legal thinking. Balganesh’s work has appeared in leading law journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is also a co-author of sections of the leading copyright law treatise Nimmer on Copyright.
Before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 2021, Balganesh was a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Prior to that, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles and essays editor of the Yale Law Journal and a student fellow at the Information Society Project. Prior to that, he spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a B.C.L. and M.Phil.
In 2017, he was elected a member of the American Law Institute, and since 2015 he has served as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. Balganesh also has been recognized for his teaching: In 2017, he received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching and, in 2015, the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, both at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Dr. Yuan Hao is a senior fellow / co-director of the newly established Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center (BAIC) at BCLT. Yuan’s research interests are focused on two areas: (1) IP’s specific role in facilitating human creativity in an AI-powered age; and (2) IP’s specific role in the growth of private ordering and innovation eco-system in the shadow of an authoritarian government. For the former interest, Yuan is co-teaching a brand-new course titled IP and Human Creativity in an “AI Age” starting in the autumn of 2023, and her very recent article of The Rise of Centaur Inventors(opens in a new tab) has been published in the Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. 104, Jan. 2024). In 2024-2025, Yuan is also hosting a global talk series on generative AI and human creativity. Regarding the latter interest, Yuan’s research is currently focused on the evolving landscape of standard essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation, as well as the curious interplay of patent and antitrust in China(opens in a new tab).
Before Yuan joined Berkeley, she taught patent law and anti-monopoly law in the School of Law at Tsinghua University. As an influential academic, Yuan advised key IP and anti-monopoly legislation projects in China. She also participated in a dozen litigation, administrative investigation, and arbitration cases, including a major SEP antitrust investigation proceeding, as a panel member or expert witness. In 2018, Yuan was listed as an arbitrator in the International Arbitration Center in Tokyo (IACT), which aims to specialize in SEP-related arbitrations.
Yuan received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (2011), Ph.D. in Nano-electronics from Penn State University (2006), and B.S. in Physics from Peking University (1999).
Edward Koellner has extensive expertise in international law, intellectual property, fintech, and especially in the field of space law. As the Associate General Counsel at USAA, Mr. Koellner has distinguished himself as a strategic innovator, focusing particularly on the integration of new technologies into legal frameworks. His role is pivotal in the development and implementation of programs that rigorously comply with regulatory standards, contributing significantly to the evolution of intellectual property protection and fostering growth in the industry.
Mr. Koellner, a registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), brings a comprehensive and unique set of skills shaped by his experience as a veteran of the US Navy. This background endows him with a distinctive perspective and a disciplined methodology in his legal pursuits.
In the specialized field of space law, Mr. Koellner demonstrates exceptional proficiency. He operates as a regulatory compliance strategist, adeptly managing the intricate regulatory frameworks specific to space law. His work is instrumental in ensuring corporate compliance with legal mandates, advocating for ethical business practices, and reducing risks associated with regulatory non-compliance. Mr. Koellner is also a Senior Fellow at the For All Moonkind's Institute on Space Law and Ethics.
Mr. Koellner's career encompasses significant roles at leading organizations, including USAA, Citibank, SunTrust, and Western Union. His expertise covers a wide range of disciplines, such as regulatory compliance, digital transformation, intellectual property law, and risk management.
Regarding his academic background, Mr. Koellner is finishing an LL.M. in Air and Space Law from the University of Mississippi School of Law, where his research focused on asset-based financing, the interplay between space and intellectual property, space cybersecurity, and the ethical aspects of space mining. Additionally, he holds an MS in Global Technology and Development from Arizona State University, a JD from Marquette University, an MBA from Texas Christian University, and a BA in Biochemistry from West Virginia University.
Beyond his legal practice, Mr. Koellner is an influential figure through his contributions to scholarly publications and speaking engagements. He is a sought-after speaker on subjects including intellectual property law, its application to the commercial outer space market, outer space cybersecurity, and biotechnology, offering valuable insights that resonate in both academic and professional settings.
To contact Mr. Koellner for his expertise, please email him at ed.koellner@gmail.com or phone at 404-428-2072. His career is characterized by a blend of legal expertise, innovative thought, and a steadfast commitment to ethical practice, positioning him as a prominent figure in the dynamic intersection of law and technology.