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Prof. Dr. Winner’s CV

Dr. Roland A. Stuerz is head of Think Tank at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation. The Think Tank collects data and conducts analyses with regard to the digital transformation for political, scientific and societal stakeholders. Its aim is to inform objectively about the digital transformation and to provide a solid base for evidence based political decision-making. Research of the Think Tank is planned to deal with all aspects of the digital transformation.
Roland Stuerz’s personal research focuses on various aspects of the use of copyright-protected creative online content by German consumers. Before joining the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation as department head, he was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. There he also worked on various other projects dealing with digitization or providing innovation policy advice to political entities. He regularly teaches courses on innovation policy and quantitative empirical methods.
Roland Stuerz studied management with a focus on innovation management and marketing at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and at the Copenhagen Business School. He holds a diploma degree in management, a Master of Business Research and a doctoral degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. In his doctoral thesis he investigated the driving forces of industry evolution and firm survival of newly founded companies using quantitative data on the firm populations of Austrian, German, U.K., U.S. and Australian motorcycle manufacturers as well as German piano producers and their German suppliers.

Mr. Steindl’s CV

Dr. Shitong Qiao is assistant professor of law at the University of Hong Kong. He was Global Associate Professor of Law at NYU School of Law (Fall 2017) and Ken Young-Gak Yun & Jinah Park Yun Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Duke Law School (Spring 2019). His doctoral dissertation, “Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms,” won the Judge Ralph K. Winter Prize (awarded annually to the best student paper written in law and economics at Yale Law School) and the inaugural Masahiko Aoki Award for Economic Paper, and was published by Cambridge University Press. His recent publications include Exclusionary Megacities (co-authored with Wendell Pritchett; Southern California Law Review) and Rights-Weakening Federalism (Minnesota Law Review). 

Dr. Eugene C Lim completed his Doctorate in Juridical Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he was a graduate fellow with the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP). He specializes in the field of international and comparative intellectual property law, and is particularly interested in cross-disciplinary studies that evaluate the impact of law on social behaviour. He is currently working on a project on consumer perceptions of exotic trademarks in non-conventional media. He has published in the fields of biotechnology law, theories of compliance with international law, international intellectual property regulation, trademark dilution theory, the concept of fixation in copyright law, the doctrine of equivalents in patent law, and the law relating to psychiatric injury. He has spoken about the use of experiential learning techniques in legal pedagogy, and currently teaches a variety of courses on law and technology at the City University of Hong Kong, as well as modules on legal theory, jurisprudence, and the law relating to business organizations.

Yahong Li, JSD and JSM (Stanford), is an Associate Professor and Director for LLM Program in Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She specializes in IP law with a focus on cross-disciplinary study of IP, culture and technological innovation. She is an author/editor of, inter alia, Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Two Systems in One Country Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Copyright, Internet and the Balance of Rights (HKU Press, 2016), Imitation to Innovation in China: the Role of Patents in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2010). She published widely in top-tier peer-reviewed journals including Cardozo AELJ, IIC, LIT, QMJIP, UPenn JIL and AIPJ. She was twice awarded the Faculty Research Output Prizes. She is a recipient of the competitive Cambridge-HKU and Melbourne-HKU Fellowships, and the sponsored Visitorship of Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition, Harvard Law School, Academia Sinica, and ARCIALA of SMU, among others. She has supervised more than 10 PhD students and was nominated for an Outstanding Supervisor award. She is a member of International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), a Council Member of China IP Law Association, and Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Institute of Patent Attorneys. She is also an Honorary Professor at Jinan University, a member of Expert Committee of Peking University Great Bay Area IP Institute, an Expert Advisor of National Copyright Trading Base, and a Scientific Member of Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise.

Prof. Jyh-An Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he serves as the Director of the LLB Programme and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies. He holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. Dr. Lee has published extensively in English and in Chinese on various aspects of intellectual property and Internet law. His research appears in leading academic journals, such as Wake Forrest Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Oregon Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Review, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), Hastings Business Law Journal, American University International Law Review, UMKC Law Review, Jurimetrics,  Washington International Law Journal, etc. He is also the sole author of two books: Coding a Free Society: Open Source Strategies for Policymakers (VDM Verlag Müller Press, 2007) and Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012).

During his studies at Stanford Law School, Dr. Lee was appointed the 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 in the Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014) and an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2011–2014). He has been the Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. Professor Lee is currently a member of the advisory board of the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law affiliated with the University of Vienna. In 2016, he was appointed a domain name dispute resolution panellist by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and continues to serve in this capacity. Dr. Lee is also the Director of the Academic Committee for the Asia Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Professor Lee has been featured on BBC News, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and Financial Times as an expert on intellectual property and Internet law. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.

Mr. Lee’s CV

Stefan Knotzer studied Law at the University of Vienna. After completing his studies, he joined a law firm in Vienna, mainly focusing on Corporate Law. In 2018, Stefan Knotzer joined the Danube-University Krems, where he is currently working as Research and Teaching Fellow. Since 2019, he is member othe Center of IP, Media and Innovation Law. His primary fields of research are copyright and data protection law.