Prof. Jyh-An LEE – Associate Professor & Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies), Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Jyh-An Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he serves as the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies and as the Director of the LLB Programme. He holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. Prof. Lee has published extensively in both English and Chinese on various aspects of intellectual property and Internet law. His research appears in leading academic journals, such as the Wake Forrest Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Oregon Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, Jurimetrics, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Review, Computer Law & Security Review, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), Hastings Business Law Journal, Washington International Law Journal, etc. His authored/edited books include Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012), Intellectual Property Law in China (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd edn, 2021, co-authored with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark), and Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press, 2021, co-edited with Reto M. Hilty and Chung-Chung Liu).
During his studies at Stanford Law School, Prof. Lee was appointed as the John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at the National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow at 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 at 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 European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law advisory board, which is affiliated with the University of Vienna. In 2016, he was appointed as a domain name dispute resolution panelist by the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and continues to serve in this capacity. Prof. Lee is also the Vice President of the Asia Innovation and Intellectual Property Society. Prof. 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. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.